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		<title>Visit to Northern Ireland Science Park of Prof Burton Lee  Director/Lecturer Stanford University School of Engineering and  Member of the Irish Government Innovation Task Force.</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Date/Time: Tuesday 15th December 2009 at 5.00 pm until 6.30 pm
Venue: NI Science Park, Queens Island, Belfast. BT3 9DT.
Burton is a distinguished and highly regarded thinker on all things innovation. He is Director and Engineering lecturer, European Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Stanford University. Currently he is a member of National Innovation Taskforce, Office of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=centreforcompetitiveness.wordpress.com&blog=1239541&post=279&subd=centreforcompetitiveness&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Two thirds of private sector productivity growth between 2000 and 2007 was driven by innovation..</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 19:47:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Claims a new report by NESTA.
The findings are revealed in NESTA&#8217;s Innovation Index &#8211; the most ambitious attempt yet to measure the contribution of innovation to the UK&#8217;s economic growth.
The Index, which will be published on an annual basis, reveals a direct link between the amount of innovation that companies invested and productivity output. UK [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=centreforcompetitiveness.wordpress.com&blog=1239541&post=275&subd=centreforcompetitiveness&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>World Quality Day Conference</title>
		<link>http://centreforcompetitiveness.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/world-quality-day-conference/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:36:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Making Northern Ireland Competitive
Thursday 12 Nov 2009
9am &#8211; 4pm
Malone House, Belfast
International experts, including Google’s European director, will help probe the impediments to competitiveness in Northern Ireland and point the way to more dynamic and successful organisations.
The Conference will cover specific and urgent problems that hamper our competitiveness. Leading local organisations will also share their success [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=centreforcompetitiveness.wordpress.com&blog=1239541&post=258&subd=centreforcompetitiveness&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Housing Executive Wins UK Excellence Award</title>
		<link>http://centreforcompetitiveness.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/housing-executive-wins-uk-excellence-award/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:13:09 +0000</pubDate>
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The Centre for Competitiveness would like to congratulate the Northern Ireland Housing Executive on being presented with one of the top business awards at a ceremony in London. The housing body won The UK Excellence Award, which is presented by the British Quality Foundation, ahead of a host of major organisations.
The prestigious accolade recognises that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=centreforcompetitiveness.wordpress.com&blog=1239541&post=246&subd=centreforcompetitiveness&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Group boosts turnover by more than 130 per cent</title>
		<link>http://centreforcompetitiveness.wordpress.com/2009/10/06/group-boosts-turnover-by-more-than-130-per-cent/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:57:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Northern Ireland’s leading social enterprise has grown its turnover by 133 per cent in the past five years ..... £8.4 million in 2004 to £19.6m in 2009 ..... Other organisations and businesses can learn much from Bryson’s achievements.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=centreforcompetitiveness.wordpress.com&blog=1239541&post=235&subd=centreforcompetitiveness&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>St Colman&#8217;s College Prizewinners at EFQM Forum</title>
		<link>http://centreforcompetitiveness.wordpress.com/2009/09/30/st-colmans-prizewinners-at-efqm-forum/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 11:12:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the EFQM Forum in Brussels on 28th September, St Colman&#8217;s College, Newry continued the success story of organisations from Northern Ireland in the European Excellence Award Process. 
As previous winners of the Northern Ireland Quality Award and the UK Excellence Award, St Colman&#8217;s were one of seven Prizewinners.  The other prizewinners were EDF EDT; France, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=centreforcompetitiveness.wordpress.com&blog=1239541&post=229&subd=centreforcompetitiveness&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The 2009 Review of the EFQM Excellence Model</title>
		<link>http://centreforcompetitiveness.wordpress.com/2009/09/08/the-2009-review-of-the-efqm-excellence-model/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:02:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new version of the EFQM Model to be launched.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=centreforcompetitiveness.wordpress.com&blog=1239541&post=226&subd=centreforcompetitiveness&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Congratulations to St Colman&#8217;s College</title>
		<link>http://centreforcompetitiveness.wordpress.com/2009/08/24/congratulations-to-st-colmans-college/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 09:19:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[St Colman&#8217;s College, Newry have been announced as one of the 14 finalists for this year&#8217;s EFQM Excellence Award!  The Award and Prize Winners will be named on 28 September in the Plaza Hotel, Brussels at EFQM&#8217;s Celebration Award dinner.
For more information and to see the full list of finalists download the EFQM press release.
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		<title>Collaborative Networking &#8211; Building Critical Mass</title>
		<link>http://centreforcompetitiveness.wordpress.com/2009/08/24/collaborative-networking-building-critical-mass/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 08:54:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Centre for Competitiveness, with support from Invest NI, have completed a number of scoping studies with member companies in the form of collaborative networking. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=centreforcompetitiveness.wordpress.com&blog=1239541&post=217&subd=centreforcompetitiveness&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Delivering through the downturn</title>
		<link>http://centreforcompetitiveness.wordpress.com/2009/08/03/delivering-through-the-downturn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:53:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How to deliver excellent customer service despite the recession.  Joe Goasdoué of BQF tells us how to thrive in the face of economic meltdown.
&#8220;40% of UK organisations could be wasting valuable time, money and resources by not doing enough to improve their business performance.  This indicates that organisations have the capacity to reduce costs by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=centreforcompetitiveness.wordpress.com&blog=1239541&post=209&subd=centreforcompetitiveness&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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