Local Entrepreneurial Systems in the Global Economy - Training Programme

Training Programme for Professionals from Latin America
6 - 17 February 2006, Venice, Italy

This training programme is organized by UNIDO as part of activities of the project “Strengthening and dissemination of cluster development in Nicaragua” financed by the Austrian Government.

The program is oriented to provide specific knowledge on the economic models of local development related to the industrial district model (or cluster), from a theoretical and empirical perspective, referring to emerging scenarios of global economy. The overall goal is to offer practitioners, researchers and policy-makers from Nicaragua and other Latin American countries knowledge, tools, and methodologies based on a coherent and consistent theoretical framework and to share innovative and explanatory experiences of industrialized realities.

The course will last two weeks, from 6th to 17th February 2006 and will include, in addition to lectures, presentations and group meetings a number of study tours to industrial districts and interactive working sessions with local institutions and enterprises to stimulate joint learning. Expected results:

  • An integrated framework of the cluster model and the global value chain perspective;
  • Diffusion of good practices and case studies concerning advanced cluster realities;
  • Knowledge transfer and sharing among participants from Latin American and with trainers from a number of universities, enterprises and support institutions from Europe and USA;
  • Providing innovative tools and methodologies to support practitioners by focusing and enriching UNIDO’s methodologies;
  • Identification of relevant areas/topics for further research and interventions consistent with the framework proposed;
  • Partnership promotion at transnational level among participants, trainers, and speakers operating in local, national and international institutions (also for future activities and projects).

 

The training program is coordinated by the TeDIS Research Center of Venice International University (Venice, Italy), which has a rich network of relations with institutions and companies from different industrial districts, and which has gained a lot of experience in the field of industrial districts, clusters and local development.

The following universities and institutions also take part in the program:

The basic concepts proposed by this training program are those that have emerged from recent research on industrial clusters and districts, production processes and company networks, the problems of local development and the dynamics of social capital creation.

To look at the programme of the course, the agenda, the professors and for other information please visit the website:

www2.univiu.org/clustertrainingvenice

 

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