| Purpose: The Center for International Industry Competitiveness (CIIC) was founded to enhance the competitive capabilities of small and medium-sized manufacturers (SMMs) by providing them with management training, product/market support services, and market identification and analysis services. The CIIC will accomplish its goals by offering fee-based and complimentary training seminars, short courses, research, and company interventions on topics such as the following: - Database mining
- Identifying specific customers in foreign markets
- Government assistance programs to help U.S. small and medium-sized manufacturers to export
- Foreign governments’ regulatory, legal and business environments and their effects on the desirability of manufacturing in foreign jurisdictions
- Industrial market research
- International market research based on the quality of foreign data
- Protection of intellectual property rights overseas
- Succession and generational transfer of power for family-owned companies
- Disaster planning and survival
- Management of technology and knowledge
- Industrial product development
- Cooperative programs with state and federal agencies
- Human resource management with special considerations for small and medium-sized manufacturers
Benefits to the Community: The CIIC will involve students, faculty, University friends, corporations, governments, and the community in the following ways: - Offering both fee-based and free programs.
- Promoting exchange of ideas and networking opportunities through courses, seminars and roundtables.
- Improving management practices at local businesses and community organizations.
- Providing internships and engaging students in experiential learning and practical research projects.
- Providing community and business partners with learning opportunities from the Samuel S. Bergami Learning Center for Finance and Technology.
- Inviting community and business partners to attend seminars in the College of Business Robert Alvine Professional Enrichment program.
- Developing collaborative efforts between the College of Business, the Tagliatela School of Engineering, and state and federal agencies to help revive the dynamism of Connecticut manufacturers.
The end result will aim to enhance the competitiveness of Connecticut manufacturers and their workers and to keep jobs in our communities.
Benefits to the Sponsors:
The CIIC provides its sponsors with the following: - Innovative services to enhance industry competitiveness
- Access to academic and industry experts for research and consultation
- Ongoing public recognition of sponsors’ roles for the Center’s activities and programs
- Advisory committee membership
- Incorporation of sponsors’ logos in CIIC brochures, publications and website
- Discounts on services offered
The CIIC’s Prime Sponsor can actively participate in planning its activities and can receive the following benefits: - Serve as chair of the advisory committee.
- Have open access to proprietary research not performed for the CIIC’s clients.
- Have the opportunity to publish editorials in the CIIC’s publications.
- Receive a naming opportunity for the CIIC.
- Endow a chaired professorship of industrial marketing for the director of the CIIC.
- Receive publicity as the CIIC’s sponsor in continuing media coverage of the Center’s activities in major business and industrial outlets including Fortune, CNN, BusinessWeek, the Wall Street Journal, the Economist, Marketing News, Selling Power, and Industry Week. Please see http://www.chinesetao.com/media.htm for some media coverage of the CIIC in these outlets and others.
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