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Growing innovation clusters for American prosperity : summary of a symposium /

"Responding to the challenges of fostering regional growth and employment in an increasingly competitive global economy, many U.S. states and regions have developed programs to attract and grow companies as well as attract the talent and resources necessary to develop innovation clusters. These...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores Corporativos: National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Competing in the 21st Century: Best Practice in State and Regional Innovation Initiatives, National Research Council (U.S.). Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy
Otros Autores: Wessner, Charles W.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, [2011], ©2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Keynote address: The role of research universities in the formation of regional innovation clusters: the impact of Arizona State University on Metropolitan Phoenix
  • Panel I: Why clusters matter: innovation clusters and economic growth
  • Cluster development: a path to growth
  • Stimulating regional economies
  • Panel II: Regional innovation clusters: the Obama administration's innovation initiative
  • The geography of innovation: the federal government and the growth of regional innovation clusters
  • New York State's NANO initiative
  • The technology innovation program: connecting the dots
  • Panel III: State and regional initiatives
  • Clusters growing in Pennsylvania
  • Building and branding clusters: lessons from Kansas and Philadelphia
  • Virginia industry cluster analysis
  • The Washington State innovation economy
  • Luncheon address
  • Panel IV: The university connection
  • The Akron model
  • The South Carolina innovation ecosystem
  • California initiatives
  • Panel V: Filling in the gaps: the role of foundations
  • How innovation clusters are reviving the economies that 'urban renewal' destroyed
  • Building the workforce and the universities
  • Roundtable: key issues and next steps forward.