The session will focus on the following questions: How to identify the activity sectors of clusters where Cape Verde has a comparative advantage? What should be the governance structure for Clusters: how to establish processes to identify the leaders of Clusters? Who should be a member of the network of Clusters? How to identify performance indicators for Clusters? What monitoring and evaluation system should be adopted for Clusters? What governance system?
How to optimize and plan the activities of Clusters? How to ensure that planned activities are consistent with the positioning of Clusters? How to ensure the competitiveness of Clusters? Who should ensure the maintenance of this competitiveness? What should be the decision-making system to determine which activities should be left to the public sector, private sector or PPP? What are the activities that represent opportunities for the private sector? How to evaluate the private sector’s capacity? What should be the promotion strategy to attract foreign direct investment and create opportunities for the domestic private sector? What should be the policy for promoting Clusters?
- Dr. Christian Ketels, Professor, Harvard Business School, Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness; President of TCI - The Competitiveness Institute (the Global Practitioner’s network for competitiveness, clusters and innovation)
- Dr. Victor Ndiaye, CEO, Performances Group
- Dr. Marcel Klesen, Ecoinnovation Cluster Luxemburg, Manager
