America's Clusters: Building Industry Clusters

摘要

Cluster-based economic strategies emphasize the formation and strengthening of aregion's industrial clusters by building local economic foundations that support home-grown firms and industries, as well as attract new firms to the region. This is one of two published products that resulted from an ESA-funded project dealing with regional industrial clusters. It primarily covers the facts of U.S. industrial clusters. The other published product is item 10 in this bibliography. That report primarily covers the process of how clusters determine competitiveness. The project also involved the convening of a clusters conference in June 1995 in Sedona, Arizona. This report is derived from material that was presented at the Sedona conference. Its table of contents describes the topics covered: (1) What industry clusters are, (2) Identifying America's leading clusters, (3) Advanced manufacturing clusters, (4) Consumer industries, (5) Service industries, and (6) Resource industries.