Anteja ECG is an international consulting firm, headquartered in Ljubljana, Slovenia with liaison offices in Boston, Stuttgart, and Tbilisi. Established in 2005, Anteja provides technical assistance with a focus on design and implementation of competitiveness and innovation strategies. Anteja provides expert advisory services to national and regional authorities, municipalities, and international and private sector organizations. It assists clients as they organize themselves around the issues of innovation and competitiveness to secure sustainable and all-inclusive growth through clusters, value chains and regional cooperation. The firm’s orientation and grounded project approach are based on extensive practical experience. The firm possesses unique experience in projects aimed at improving the competitiveness of regions, countries, cities, industry sectors, clusters and individual firms. Its experience includes assignments in Europe, West Balkan, the Black Sea-Caspian region, Asia, Africa and the US. For years, Anteja has successfully engaged in bringing together and managing the public–private dialog involving disparate groups around the idea of growth through collaboration. These have included different actors from the industry, private and public sectors. Our hallmark is our experience in bringing together high-level decision-makers, CEO’s, small business owners, their employees and authorities who are struggling to adapt to the global marketplace and formalization of linkages between industry and institutions acting in innovation and workforce development sphere.