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About us

Our company exists to foster prosperity by creating stronger, adaptable, sustainable and responsible business ecosystems.


From experience to impact: Building competitive, resilient economies

For three decades, Competitiveness has partnered with economic development institutions, national and regional Governments, cities, chambers of commerce and companies to shape economic transformation. We started bringing the manufacturing hubs from the 80s to the 90s and today we navigate the complex landscape of digital disruption, climate urgency, and geopolitical realignment. We collaborate to ensure an effective transition towards more competitive, climate resilient and inclusive value chains.

  • Our journey through every era of globalization has equipped us with an unparalleled depth of insight. Now, we turn that experience toward today’s most complex challenges: navigating unstable geopolitics, harnessing the AI revolution, building climate resilience, and designing inclusive growth.
  • Our experience is global; our application is local. We have worked from the advanced tech clusters of France to the developing sectors of Burundi, across Europe, Latin America, Central Asia, and Africa. Our diverse, passionate team and network of over 400 project experts provide not just global best practices, but the right practice for your local context, even in fragility situations.
  • We define ourselves as change enablers. We partner with you to co-create strategies, build public and private sector capacity, and deliver the specialized tools needed to thrive in an era of adaptive, regionalized, and knowledge-driven value chains.
  • We shaped the past and we are ready for the future. In a world of unprecedented change, partnering with Competitiveness means partnering with a team that has the historical perspective, global toolkit, and pragmatic passion to help you succeed.

We are enablers

360 degrees, from strategy to implementation.

01. Strategic advisory

Co-creating the vision and the actionable plan
We partner with governments and institutions to diagnose, design, and co-create the foundational strategies, policies, and institutional frameworks needed to unlock sustainable economic transformation. We turn complex challenges into clear, actionable, and evidence-based roadmaps.

02. Implementation support

Building the lasting capacity to execute
We embed with your teams to build lasting capacity and ensure strategies become reality. Through hands-on partnership, knowledge transfer, and interim leadership, we strengthen institutions and directly support industries to execute plans, manage change, and achieve measurable outcomes.

03. Solutions

Delivering the specialized tools to make it work

We develop and deliver the specialized tools, platforms, and physical infrastructures required to operationalize strategy. From digital systems to certification schemes and industrial parks, our solutions are tailored, turnkey assets that address specific gaps and enable long-term competitiveness.

Our integrated offer

We forge lasting partnerships to build competitive, inclusive and resilient value chains, delivering impact through integrated strategy, implementation support, and tailored solutions in three main areas:

Vision, alignment and governance

To support our partners in establishing evidence-based and co-owned development agendas that mobilize action and lead to value creation, employment generation, improved trade balance, and investment attraction.

Local value chain development

To enhance the competitiveness of domestic value chains and strategically integrate them into global markets. Strengthen existing firms to enhance core competitiveness.

Ecosystem development and country readiness

To co-design and implement the policy frameworks, institutions, and supporting infrastructures that enable sustainable private sector-led growth.
Since 1992 we partner with ecosystems across the globe.
More than 300 projects in over 40+ countries