This document provides context about Colombia, Bogota, and the 20th TCI Global Conference. Regarding Colombia, it notes key economic and competitiveness data. For Bogota, it highlights GDP, exports, clusters, and productive development/innovation agendas. The conference will focus on the future of clusters through cross-country collaboration, with tracks on cluster policies, implementation, and business. It will take place in Bogota, described as Latin America's cultural hotspot.

1. Colombia and the 20th TCI Global Conference
Marco Llinás, Vice President for Competitiveness and Shared Value
Bogotá Chamber of Commerce

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About Colombia
Exports
USD $31.4 billion (2016)
GDP per cápita
USD $5,792 (2016)
Population
48.6 million (2016)
Unemployment rate
9.87% (2016)
FDI
USD $13.6 billion (2016)
Imports
USD $42.8 billion (2016)
Gini coefficient
0.517 (2016)
Main exports (2016)
Global Competitiveness Index
Rank 66 (2017)
Oil 26.7%
Coal 14.8%
Coffee 7.7%
Basic chemistry 6.9%
Petroleum products 6.5%
Flowers 4.2%
Others 33.2%

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The Peace Agreement: new opportunities but also new challenges
Presence of Organized Armed Groups (OAG) in
towns of former FARC’s control
Map source: Fundación Paz y reconciliación.
Images from Revista Semana, Vice, El Espectador

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The Peace Agreement: new opportunities but also new challenges

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Productivity challenge
“Productivity isn't everything, but in the long run it is almost everything”.
Paul Krugman
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Índice PTF Formación Bruta de Capital
Investment and Total Factor Productivity Evolution in Colombia,
2000-2014
Source: DANE - DIAN. Calculations: OEE – MINCIT
TFP Index Investment (Gross Capital
Formation)
Colombia, as many other LAC countries, faces a great
challenge in terms of increasing its productivity

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National Competitiveness, Science
Technology, and Innovation System
Public
Agencies
Private Sector
Labor
Organizations
Private
Organizations
Regional Competitiveness
Commissions
Technical committees
Presidential Advisor for Competitiveness
National Competitiveness
Commission
Public Sector
Private / Civil Society
Academy
NATIONAL LEVEL
Executive Committee

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The Colombian Productive
Development Policy
With a change in paradigm:
the PDP adopts a “bottom-
up” approach instead of the
previous “top-down” one
INNOVATION &
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
QUALITY
KNOWLEDGE
&TECHNOLOGY
TRANSFER
INTERNATIONAL
TRADE
ACCESS TO
CAPITAL
SUSTAINABILITY
HUMAN
CAPITAL
8 strategic lines
VALUE
CHAIN
LINKAGES

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Colombia is implementing one of the
most interesting cluster development
agendas in the world, with around 90
cluster initiatives.
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Source: Red Cluster Colombia

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About Bogota
GDP per capita
USD $9,101 (2016)
Population
8 million (2016)
Unemployment rate
9.3% (2016)
GDP
26.6% of Colombia’s GDP
(2016)
Exports
USD $2.4 billion (2016)
FDI
USD $1,993 million (2016)
Imports
USD $21.1 billion (2016)
Main exports (2016)
Agriculture 23.9%
Food products 12.2%
Chemical products 9.6%
Rubber and plastic 8.5%
Pharmaceutical products 7.3%
Machinery and equipment n.c.p. 6.0%
Textile products 4.7%
Other products 27.8%

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Agenda for Productive Development
and Innovation
Bogota-region is working
one of the most interesting
and profound productive
development agendas in
Latin America, consisting of
two complementary efforts.
Constraints on
Competitiveness
ST&I
projects

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Smart Specialization Strategy (RIS3)
A collectively built agenda based
on innovation and knowledge to
boost productivity in 5 prioritized
areas.
25 projects that amount to
more than USD $165 million.
ST&I Projects

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The most ambitious cluster development
agenda in Colombia Constraints on
competitiveness

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About Bogota’s clusters
GDP
55% of Bogota’s GDP
Sales
53% of Bogota’s sales
Exports
USD $1.23 billion
Firms
Over 190,000 (2016)
FDI
Over USD $ 8 billon
(last 5 years)
Companies under extension
programs support
+ 2,800 (2017)

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The Bogota-region Cluster initiative agenda
Logistics
ST&I
Regulatory
issues
FDI attraction
Business
platforms
Human
capital
Firm level
productivity
streghtening
Interventions
within the
firm
Interventions
outside the
firm

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Cluster initiatives’ governance structure
General Assembly
Executive Committee
Technical
Secretariat
Human
capital
Science,
technology and
innovation
Firm-level
productivity
strenghtening
Infrastructure,
logistics /
regulatory issues
BCC

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THE FUTURE OF CLUSTERS
through cross-country and cross-region collaboration

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What has
happened
in the last
20 years?
through cross-country and cross-region collaboration
THE FUTURE OF CLUSTERS

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What is
going to
happen in
the next 20?
through cross-country and cross-region collaboration
THE FUTURE OF CLUSTERS

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CollaborationTCIisallabout
Ample space
for deepening
this
collaboration
Going
beyond
sharing good
and bad
practices
through cross-country and cross-region collaboration
THE FUTURE OF CLUSTERS

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Especially in
the current
context
through cross-country and cross-region collaboration
THE FUTURE OF CLUSTERS

26. Better policies
Better
implementation
Better business
• Modern industrial policy and clusters
• National vs. local cluster policy
interaction
• Evaluation
• Peace and inclusiveness
• RIS3 and clusters
• Management of competitiveness
agendas
• Management of cluster initiatives
• Governance of cluster initiatives
• Internationalization and clusters
• Role of clusters in science, technology,
and innovation agendas
• Entrepreneurship and clusters
• Academia-Business collaboration
• Creating Shared Value
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The tracks

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Last year, we enjoyed this guy and food
as a central theme of the Conference in
Eindhoven

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A city of over 8 million people showing its soul
through its thriving cultural expressions.
This edition: Bogota, Latin America’s cultural hotspot

29. WELCOME TO BOGOTA AND ENJOY EACH
MINUTE OF THIS AWESOME CONFERENCE
20th TCI Global Conference

30. Thank you!
www.ccb.org.co/cluster
marco.llinas@ccb.org.co
@marcollinas