In collaboration with the Caribbean Centre for Competitiveness (CCfC) this project piloted training on cluster development and cluster strategies to representatives of business support organizations (BSOs) that work with clusters (or may do so in the future), government representatives working on cluster policy, and university cluster practitioners. 40 people were trained.
This project studies the factors that have led large firms in the region to grow and achieve competitiveness and scale, as well as the challenges and obstacles faced along the way. This knowledge can be used by business executives, corporate leaders as well as policy makers as they make decisions to grow and facilitate business.
Large regional Firms: Drivers of Growth and Opportunities for Expansion into new Markets Read More »
The first Compete Caribbean Regional Consultative Forum (RCF) and Strategic Regional Dialogue on Private Sector Development in the Caribbean was held on April 8th and 9th, 2013 at the Cave Hill School of Business, the University of the West Indies (Cave Hill campus), Barbados.
Compete Caribbean Program (CCP) and The Branson Centre of Entrepreneurship Caribbean have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to partner and establish the Branson Centre Compete Caribbean Entrepreneurship Initiative.
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During the Caribbean Development Bank’s (CDB) forty second annual meeting held in Grand Cayman from May 23-24, 2012, CDB, The World Bank (WB) and Inter-American Bank (IDB) formally signed a Memorandum of Understanding to jointly support the work of the Caribbean Growth Forum (CGF). CGF aims to provide a platform for dialogue around the growth
This week the Compete Caribbean Program presented opportunities for Bahamanian companies to receive grants to help grow their businesses. Presentations were made to companies on Tuesday at the Sheraton Nassau Beach Resort and today at the Grand Bahama Chamber of Commerce. At both events, Astrid Wynter, Country Representative of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in
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Entrepreneurs and businesses in the Caribbean and the diaspora – there is still time to get in those applications in to receive grant funding of US$ 100,000 for your innovative business projects. Compete Caribbean, the leading private sector development programme in the Caribbean today announced that it has extended the deadline for applications to the
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An initiative of Compete Caribbean, a five year private sector development programme involving 15 Caribbean countries, the newly launched Enterprise Innovation Challenge Fund (ECIF) is providing matching grants to encourage innovation by Caribbean firms and support their implementation of such projects.
The series, entitled “Conversations on Growthâ€, begins tomorrow, Thursday, July 21, with a special discussion on attracting investment in Barbados. Mr. David O’Donovan, an Irish investment promotion expert, will speak on the topic “Successful Cases in Investment Promotion: Learning from Ireland, Malaysia, and Costa Rica.†The venue is the Conference Room of the Savannah Hotel,
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