Industry clusters would benefit R.I., neighbors
I recently heard U.S. Small Business Administration Administrator Karen Mills keynote a panel session about regional innovation clusters at the Washington, D.C.-area energy conference. She described her efforts to link, leverage and align the federal government’s agencies behind this economic-development approach, which she wrote about in her April 2008 Brookings Institution report, “Clusters and Competitiveness: A New Federal Role for Stimulating Regional Economies.”
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