The document discusses supporting the Institute for Competitiveness, India through membership and sponsorships. It provides an overview of the Institute's work in conducting research and advisory services related to competition, strategy, and economic competitiveness. Potential sponsors can support the Institute's publications, events, awards programs, research projects, and social media channels. Sponsorship opportunities range from supporting individual reports or conferences to multi-year research programs. The document aims to engage businesses and governments in realizing the Institute's vision of enhancing prosperity through competitiveness.

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2. Support Institute for
Competitiveness
Institute for Competitiveness, India is the Indian knot in the global network of the Institute for
Strategy and Competitiveness at Harvard Business School. It is an international initiative centered in
India, dedicated to enlarging and purposeful disseminating of the body of research and knowledge
on competition and strategy, as pioneered over the last 25 years by Professor Michael Porter of the
Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness at Harvard Business School. It conducts and supports
indigenous research, offers academic and executive courses, and provides advisory services to the
Corporate and the Governments. The institute studies competition and its implications for company
strategy; the competitiveness of nations, regions & cities and thus generate guidelines for businesses
and those in governance; and suggests and provides solutions for socio-economic problems.
Institute for Competitiveness, India received the Competitiveness Hall of Fame award for its
exemplary contribution with substantial global and national impact in the area of national economic
competitiveness, strategy, creating shared value et al.
To help realize the vision of “Enhancing Prosperity”, IFC invites corporates to support the activities
of the institute.

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Endowment for Prosperity
Institute of India
Institute for Competitiveness, India has tied up with the Martin Prosperity Institute, at
the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management and set up the Prosperity
Institute of India. Its objective is to enhance the prosperity and creativity of Asia by
sharing knowledge on 3 T’s - Technology, Talent and Tolerance. The institute would
publish research insights, reports, academic papers, working papers, articles and
interviews that would focus on the current prosperity and competitiveness level of India
and its states and other Asian countries.
Endow the institute and we shall call it ‘Company Name’ Prosperity Institute of India.

4. Publications
You may opt to sponsor one India City Manufacturing
of IFC’s incisive reports to Competitiveness Competitiveness Report
emphasize your position as an Report Provide insight on various
industry thought leader. The An annual endeavor to analyze initiatives taken by the central
various publications include: and evaluate Indian cities and government and state government
the business opportunities they discussing the level of growth in
India Competitiveness offer to the Indian economy and manufacturing sector.
Report global corporate community.
It is an analysis of the Indian State of Healthcare in
economy from the viewpoint Sustainable India
of Competitiveness. The report Competitiveness It measures the competitiveness
covers different sectors of the Report of healthcare and delfves into the
economy with in-depth and Measure of the responsible state of health care in our country.
analyses to showcase various growth of a region focusing
aspects of the Indian economy. on environment preservation, Creative Economy of
responsible usage of natural Indian Cities
State Competitiveness resources and improved It focuses on the current
Report standard of living while prosperity and competitiveness
Annual publication that sustaining economic growth. level of Indian cities and the
provides insights into the strategies that would help them to
determinants of competitiveness Industry enhance their prosperity levels.
for states and policymaking Competitiveness
bodies, discerning their flaws Reports Creative Economy of
and showcasing potential. This report gives an Indian States
assessment of various The report explores the present
Liveability Report industries across sectors eg. situation of creative sector in
A methodical analysis that Information & Technology, Indian states and identifies their
evaluates the degree of liveability Retail and wholesale, Arts different needs. Thus, suggesting
that Indian cities offer. and Entertainment, Food & strategies that may be needed
Beverage, etc. for rural, urban and sub-urban
Individual State areas to grow and prosper.
Reports State Industrial Policy
You could also sponsor Assessment
Individual State The report would give an overall
Competitiveness Reports e.g. assessment and comparison of
Haryana, Gujarat, Punjab, the State policies in India.
Delhi, Andhra Pradesh,
Maharashtra, Bihar and
Rajasthan

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Events & Awards
You may choose to Sponsor a single event that suits your business interests and
enhances your position in the industry
State Competitiveness Awards
The awards are a reflection of the State Competitiveness Report that ranks
Indian states on certain competitiveness dimensions that are vital for the
Indian economy. The awards were presented to the Chief Ministers of the
winning States and celebrated the achievement of those States who are growing
economically, developing socially, strengthening environmentally, building
new opportunities.
Competitiveness Forum
Competitiveness Forum centers on the three pillars of Competitiveness i.e.
Economic Development, Prosperity and Shared Value Creation. It is a meeting
place for Practitioners, Corporates, Government Officials and Researchers
working in the field of Competitiveness, Clusters and Economic Development.
It provides an opportunity to enhance prosperity by initiating a dialogue and
discussing about the current thinking and future challenges on unique Business
Models, Cluster Competitiveness, Public Policy and Shared Value.

6. PORTER PRIZE
Porter Prize is named after Michael E Porter who is the living legend and
father of modern strategy field. The award would look at recognizing the
best of Indian companies whilst assessing them on a robust framework.
The central idea of the Porter Prize is to propel companies to compete
on the basis of value creation, innovation and strategy. We are looking at
recognizing organizations operating in India who have shown exemplary
strategic acumen under the categories of distinctive positioning, tradeoffs,
fit, industry architectural shift.
You may support the event as a Presenting partner, Associate partner and a
Corporate partner.
*All sponsors receive an exclusive membership to IFC entitling them access to content, publications,
interactive sessions and event
You may partner
with Porter Prize for
CEO RoundTable,
Coffee Table Book,
Benchmarking Report, Media,
Hospitality, Technology,
Porter Talks

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The Porter Prize also invites individual award partners
The Award Categories you may chose to partner are as follows
Porter Prize for Porter Prize for Porter Prize for
Industry Architectural Leveraging Unique Creating Shared Value
Shift Activities The central premise behind
Once the forces affecting Fit means that the value or creating shared value is that
competition in an industry and cost of one activity is affected the competitiveness of a
their underlying causes have by the way other activities company and the health of
been diagnosed, the firm is in a are performed. It creates the communities around
position to identify its strengths competitive advantage as well as it are mutually dependent.
and weaknesses relative to the superior profitability and helps Recognizing and capitalizing
industry. It helps anticipate the lock out imitators.”. on these connections between
factors of change and exploit societal and economic progress
opportunities, position the firm to Porter Prize for has the power to unleash the
define a capability driven defense Exploiting Trade-offs next wave of global growth and
and influence the competition Tradeoffs occur when activities redefine capitalism.
through strategic moves. are incompatible and might
arise from missing skills, Porter Prize for
Porter Prize for heritage, inoperable change Creating Value Based
Creating Distinctive management, etc. These are Healthcare Delivery
Value choices that make strategies Redefining Healthcare
The value proposition is the sustainable because they provides an overall framework
element of strategy that looks are not easy to match or to for diagnosing and solving
outward at customers, at the neutralize. They create the need the immense problem, with
demand side of the business. for choice and protect against detailed action steps in the
It reflect choices about the repositioners and straddlers health care system. The
particular kind of value the concept of value refers to the
company will offer. The value output achieved relative to
chain focuses internally on the cost incurred. It requires
operations. fundamental restructuring of
health care delivery.

8. TAPSCOTT AWARD
Tapscott Digital Media Awards will honor innovative
initiatives in cross-platform use of digital media, leveraging
the core values critical for mass collaboration, thus
enabling resource sharing and collective decision making.
The value-centric focus of the awards is to highlight the
emergence of people-entity based interactions leading to
enhanced business-to-business and business-to-customer
relations. Our aim is to bring together and acknowledge
individuals and corporates spearheading the digital
revolution, bringing about a paradigm shift to harness
the true potential of web technologies. The core values
considered are Initiative, Association, Proliferation, Savoir-
faire and Potency.

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AWARD CATEGORIES
You may chose to Support any of the award categories
Collaboration Sharing Integrity
It is a profoundly new approach Sharing is about the releasing The three values – honesty,
to orchestrate capability to or handing over of assets – by consideration and
innovate, create goods and placing them in “the commons” accountability – together
services, and solve problems. It for others to use or by sharing with transparency are the
leads to collaborative innovation them with interested users foundation of trust and integrity.
and is now an essential skill, as under agreements that may It helps public and private
important as budgeting, R&D, generate license revenue. It enterprises to become more
and planning. is not limited to patents and integrated with the societies they
copyrights, nor is it confined to serve, more attuned to social
Openness business instead it is redefining and environmental concerns,
It is not simply an obligation the public space and goods in and better equipped to develop
to report information to an an increasingly crowded and pragmatic and profitable
external party like a regulator interdependent world. solutions for advancing the
or an institutional investor; common good.
it’s a new competitive force
and an essential precondition Interdependence
for building productive Interdependence of actions and
relationships with potential events means we have no option
collaborators. than to try to encourage and
enforce mutual cooperation
through a new division of labor
among the four key pillars of
society: business, government,
the civic sector, and a new pillar
enabled by the Internet- the
individual citizen.

10. Projects
India Competitiveness
The India competitiveness project will identify and elaborate upon the drivers of the India growth story,
factors defining influencing and determining its competitiveness and the major challenges that the
economy is expected to face in the future. The endeavor is to highlight a robust strategy to improve the
overall competitiveness with insights into the government initiatives and recommendations for the future.
This would include studying the business environment at the state level and gets inspiration from US
competitiveness project of HBS.
SME Competitiveness
It will look upon opportunities to make small enterprises more competitive by enhancing their
prosperity levels and working towards the inclusive growth of small and medium enterprises.
The Academic get together on Competitiveness
Bring together various experts who would share their thoughts on competitiveness, its drivers and
issues pertaining to enhancing competitiveness of sectors etc.
The Academic get together on Healthcare
Bring together various experts who would share their thoughts on
Value Based Healthcare and Global Health Delivery.

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GSN Project
Global institutes and thinkers have been facing increasing difficulties in solving global problems. In view of
their increasing number and the levels of complexity, there is an urgent requirement to rethink our obsolete
global institutions. Global Solutions Network is a landmark study of global networks for cooperation,
problem solving and governance. Series of research projects are led by global experts to identify and explain
key issues, strategies and approaches that can help create new platforms for global issues.
Cash- a global problem: Cash is a major factor in all projects undertaken in the government and
private sector. From corporate expansions to improving aid effectiveness, reliance on physical cash has
been a source of inefficiency and obstruction. This project identifies the impact of multi-stakeholder
networks and the issues related to access, governance and accountability.
Inclusion—Ensuring that the Poor Become Integrated into the Financial System and Economy
Access to financial services for all citizens is a requisite for a range of social needs including health
care, education, Internet access and active engagement in the processes of global problem solving. But
the recently published Global Financial Inclusion Index (Global Findex) shows that only 50% of the
world’s adult population has a formal bank account, leaving 2.5 billion people worldwide in a category
called the “unbanked.” Broad financial inclusion is a cornerstone for an open and efficient society, and
thus growth, equality and global stability. “Banking the unbanked” is a policy priority for foundations,
agencies, governments and financial institutions and multi-stakeholder networks offer solutions.
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