AIC reinforces international position through agreement with US Center for Automotive Research, Michigan
Both parties looking for synergies in competitive vigilance | 25/02/2010Bilbao, 25.2.2010 As part of its strategic bid to establish itself in the international arena, AIC-Automotive Intelligence Center has signed an agreement with the Center for Automotive Research-CAR, Michigan, USA, on finding areas for cooperation between the two parties, essentially on competitive vigilance issues.
Competitive intelligence is a key to understanding how the industry is evolving on a range of fronts. So the AIC has an Intelligence Unit working in this area, alongside the other activities at the Center, which include training, research and industrial development.
Both organizations will tackle a set of joint activities designed to improve competitive levels in a number of areas at businesses in the automotive industry.
CAR-Center for Automotive Research was created to improve competitiveness and speed up technological progress in the automotive industry worldwide. Part of its mission involves creating economic research models and impartial systems, developing new factoring methods, devising future industrial scenarios, providing assessment on public policies and organizing conferences and forums on the industrys future or in support of carmakers, suppliers and workforces.
AIC is a foundation backed by the Vizcaya Provincial Council, the Amorebieta-Etxano and Ermua city halls, a group of leading-edge businesses in the automotive industry and Basque automotive cluster ACICAE. The Center encompasses activities in knowledge, training, technology and industrial development designed to improve competitiveness in the automotive industry.