Latin America has gained presence in TCI Network over the past years; today it ranks second in number of members after Europe with 17% of TCI members coming from this region.

Therefore, this chapter is an opportunity to strengthen ties between Latin American practitioners through strategic projects designed to face their challenges as a region.

Strategic areas


Networking

Increase the participation of Latin American regions in TCI Networkand its activities in Latin American.

Motivate potential collaborations with cluster organizations,institutions, multilateral organizations and networks with presencein Latin America.

Motivate potential collaborations with other TCI Chapters andmembers.

Knowledge

Generate initiatives to share specialized knowledge and goodpractices on regional development and clusters.

Give strategic and technical support to the annual TCI Latin AmericanCluster Conferences.

Global visibility

Reinforcement of international visibility of Latin American regionsthrough TCI media

Showcase contents on clusters and regional competitiveness of TCILatin American members.

Jaime Echeverri introducing the chapter

Ad-Hoc Committee


The TCI Latin American Chapter Ad-Hoc Committee is responsible for its strategic orientation according to emerged challenges from previous CLACs (TCI´s Latin American Cluster Conferences) and TCI Global Conferences.

In June 2016, on the occasion of the 9CLAC in Temuco, the Committee was partially renewed as follows: one representative of the TCI Secretariat, one member of the TCI Board of Directors and delegates from active organizational and individual members from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Uruguay.

The Chapter thanks the former members of the Committee, Julián Goñi (Chile), Orlando DiGiuseppe (Argentina), Marco Llinás (Colombia), Marco Kamiya (Peru) and Mônica Segantini (Brazil) for their active participation and welcomes the new members and countries to this working group.

SOME OF THE PRIORITY ACTIVITIES FOR THE NEXT TWO YEARS ARE

01


Promote next CLACs

Involve new countries like Peru

02


Organize Specialized /Targeted Events

In countries that make part of the TCI Network

03


Knowledge

Transfer through webinars

04


Development

Of evaluation tools useful for Latin American cluster initiatives

05


Training

For different interest groups, to start with cluster managers

CONTACT

For any further information about TCI Latin Amercica Chapter activities, please contact:


Jaime Echeverri
Vice President of Planning and Development, Medellin Chamber of Commerce, Colombia
 jecheverri@tci-network.org

Lina Arbeláez
Cluster Professional at Medellin Chamber of Commerce, Colombialina.arbelaez@camaramedellin.com.co

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