IESE's International Center for Competitiveness (ICC) is leading an innovative 2-week program on cluster competitiveness management, for the fourth year in a row, on its campus. The program, which takes place from June 28 to July 9, is designed for professionals who are working in the area of cluster-based competitiveness at both cluster and regional levels.
A concept championed by Prof. Michael Porter of Harvard Business School, clusters are groups of specialized suppliers, service providers and related entities that are concenrated in a geographic area. The ICC is directed by IESE Prof. Antoni Subirà, and the academic director of the program, Barcelona Clusters Summer School (BCSS), is Emiliano Duch, a pioneer in cluster development.
Also teaching in the program is Christian Ketels, a Principal Associate at Michael Porter's Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness and member of the HBS faculty. IESE Prof. Pascual Berrone and Antoni Subirà also lead sessions in the program.
BCSS 2010 covers the conceptual framework to best practice examples on cluster competitiveness management. Rigorous theoretical courses are combined with leading practitioners' experiences from across the world in different economic settings.
Founded in December 2006, ICC's mission is to promote scientific knowledge and rigorous learning in the area of competitiveness, with special emphasis on the European Union and increasing globalization. The center was created in cooperation with the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness (ISC), led by Porter at HBS. The ICC partners with the World Economic Forum in the development of the Global Competitiveness Report, a comprehensive study on the competitiveness of nations.
IESE Business School is also a partner of the European Cluster Excellence Initiative or ClusterExcellence.eu, a project launched by the European Commission. The project puts together the most experienced persons and organizations in Europe to identify and set up a meaningful set of quality indicators and peer-assessment procedures for cluster management.
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