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UWI rolls out its Regional Firm Competitiveness Research Project

For Release Upon Receipt - April 25, 2013

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UWI REGIONAL HEADQUARTERS, Jamaica – The Caribbean Centre for Competitiveness (CCfC) in collaboration with The University of the West Indies’ (UWI) Open Campus will host a Competitiveness Case Writing Workshop on May 2-3, 2013. The workshop to be held at the Open Campus, St. Lucia, is the first component of the CCfC’s ‘Regional Firm Competitiveness Research Project: Case Studies of Best Practices.’ The second component will involve a post-workshop Case Practicum of regional firms and industry segments which will span a three-month period.

The Project seeks to build the University’s knowledge bank and capacity for documenting our Caribbean firms’ and industries’ competitiveness experiences as Cases.

The intensive workshop will utilise case study examples with an emphasis on Global Value Chains (GVCs). Anticipated learning outcomes for participants will include capacity building in the area of analysing competitiveness strategies of Caribbean firms; a framework for assessing competitiveness constraints and the identification of key stakeholders and policy areas that may require changes to promote industry competitiveness.

Workshop participants were selected from among the researchers and professional staff of The UWI’s four campuses and affiliate institutions in nine Cariforum countries. The sessions will be facilitated by Professor Gary Gereffi, Director of the Center on Globalization, Governance & Competitiveness (CGGC) at Duke University. Professor Gereffi is considered a pioneer and world leading expert in Global Value Chain Analysis. He received his BA degree from the University of Notre Dame, his MPhil and PhD degrees from Yale University and has published extensively on globalisation, industrial upgrading, and social and economic development in various parts of the world. 

Professor Gereffi will be supported by Ms. Penny Bamber, Senior Research Associate at CGGC. Ms. Bamber holds a BA from the University of Pennsylvania, a Masters degree from the University of Chile and a Diploma from the Harris School, University of Chicago.  

Visit the CCfC website at www.uwi.edu/ccfc/ for more details and updates. 

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Over the last six decades, The University of the West Indies (UWI) has evolved from a fledgling college in Jamaica with 33 students to a full-fledged University with over 40,000 students. Today, UWI is the largest and most longstanding higher education provider in the English-speaking Caribbean, with main campuses in Barbados, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago, and Centres in Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, The Bahamas, Belize, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, St Christopher (St Kitts) & Nevis, St Lucia, and St Vincent & the Grenadines. UWI recently launched its Open Campus, a virtual campus with 45 physical site locations across the region, serving 16 countries in the English-speaking Caribbean. UWI is an international university with faculty and students from over 40 countries and collaborative links with over 60 universities around the world. Through its seven Faculties, UWI offers undergraduate and postgraduate degree options in Engineering, Humanities & Education, Law, Medical Sciences, Science & Technology, Food & Agriculture, and Social Sciences. 

(Please note that the proper name of the university is The University of the West Indies, inclusive of the “The”, hence The UWI.) 

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