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Partner Institutes We would like to express our deep appreciation for the contribution of our Partner Institutes, enabling an extensive coverage of competitiveness in their home countries. The following Institutes and people supplied data from national sources and helped distribute the survey questionnaires:

Argentina Research Program on Economic Development and Institutions Faculty of Economic Sciences Catholic University of Argentina, Buenos Aires http://www.uca.edu.ar Australia CEDA – Committee for Economic Development of Australia www.ceda.com.au Austria Federation of Austrian Industries, Vienna Austrian Institute of Economic Research, Vienna http://www.iv-net.at Belgium FEB - Federation of Enterprises in Belgium, Brussels www.feb.be Botswana BNPC - Botswana National Productivity Centre www.bnpc.bw Brazil Fundação Dom Cabral, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center https://www.fdc.org.br/

Dr. Alicia Caballero, Dean Dr. Marcelo F. Resico, Senior Economist Mrs. Martina S. Rosenfeld, Research Assistant

Melissa Wilson, Senior Economist Roxanne Punton, Director, Communications

Dr. Christian Helmenstein, Chief Economist Ms. Helena Zwickl Mr. Michael Oliver

Anouar Boukamel, Attaché Centre de compétence Economie & Conjoncture

Letsogile Batsetswe, Research Consultant Christopher M. Diswai, Executive Director

Carlos Arruda, Professor and Director FDC Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center Ana Burcharth, Professor Naira T. A. C. Gonçalves, Researcher

Bulgaria Center for the Study of Democracy, Sofia www.csd.bg

Mr. Ruslan Stefanov, Director, Economic Program Ms. Daniela Mineva, Research Fellow, Economic Program Mr. Martin Vladimirov, Analyst, Economic Program Dr. Todor Galev, Senior Analyst, Economic Program Blagovesta Dzhabirova Lyubomir Levicharov

Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry Economic Analysis and Policy Department https://www.bcci.bg/en.html

Canada Information and Communications Technology Council (ICTC) www.ictc-ctic.ca

Alexandra Cutean, Senior Director of Research & Policy Rosina Hamoni, Research Analyst

Chile Universidad de Chile Facultad de Economía y Negocios (FEN) www.fen.uchile.cl

Dr. Enrique Manzur, Vice Dean Dr. Sergio Olavarrieta, Ph.D Program Director Dr. Pedro Hidalgo, Department Head

China China Institute for Development Planning, Tsinghua University

Prof. Yang Yongheng, Executive Associate Director of China Institute for Development Planning, Tsinghua University Prof. Wang Youqiang, Associate Director of China Institute for Development Planning, Tsinghua University Dr. Gong Pu, Research Assistant Professor, Tsinghua University

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