These months have seen progress in Washington D.C. on connecting economic development to regionalism. Sarah Rahman writes that clusters are becoming the new paradigm for economic development in USA, as recently unveiled Federal-level initiatives show.
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Clusters - the new economic development paradigm in USA?
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Cluster Finance: The Missing Cluster Competitiveness Discipline
Samy Nadifi asserts that financing is a vital part of cluster competitiveness – an important component the Triple Helix model has omitted to recognize. In a world faced with economical crisis, he writes that the importance of financing cannot be overlooked and proposes concrete solutions for clus...
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Clean Water Clusters in Response to Global Needs
Various regions and nations are establishing clustering efforts to tap into the global clean water market, which has been estimated by Conference Board of Canada to be worth $450 billion with annual growth rate of 8% to 15%.
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New Twist on Clustering
Article by Bob Breault, Advisor and Member of TCI, and Founder of Arizona Optics Cluster September 2009, Tucson, Arizona Here is an idea that could take Clustering to new heights. The 11th TCI Annual Global Conference in Cape Town and my trip to Malaysia for two weeks right after the conference...
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2009 World Conference on Science and Technology Parks
The International Economic Development Council is currently promoting its Technology-Led Economic Development Conference in partnership with the International Association of Science Parks' World Conference on Science and Technology Parks.
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Companies Find Advantages in Moving Near Fiercest Competitor
21 December 2007, USA Washington -- There is a joke in Silicon Valley, California, that says, "If two people from different high-tech companies go out to lunch together, by the time they're eating dessert, a third company has been formed".
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New York state expands its life sciences cluster
New York's Center of Excellence program and other high-tech initiatives are helping to finance the expansion of the biotechnology company OSI Pharmaceutical on Long Island.
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New competitiveness strategy for ailing South Carolina
A 116 page report by the South Carolina Council on Competitiveness was released last month. It contains a detailed strategy for the state on how to become more competitive nationally and internationally.
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British Columbian forest-research partnership launched
A new partnership known as the Forest Research Opportunity B.C. (British Columbia) was recently brought together on the 1st of June. It is a new collaborative forest-research effort in order to harness the research and innovation capabilities present in British Columbia and furthermore to improve...
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Linux cluster emerging in Portland
Portland is more and more becoming a centre for Linux, the computer software that according to several experts will be neighbour town´s Microsoft's biggest competitor in the future.
