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Growing innovation clusters for American prosperity : summary of a symposium
- Title
- Growing innovation clusters for American prosperity : summary of a symposium / Charles W. Wessner, rapporteur ; Committee on Competing in the 21st Century: Best Practice in State and Regional Innovation Initiatives, Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy, Policy and Global Affairs, National Research Council of the National Academies.
- Publication
- Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, c2011.
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- Description
- xvi, 169 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "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 state and regionally based initiatives have a broad range of goals and increasingly include significant resources, often with a sectoral focus and often in partnership with foundations and universities. These are being joined by recent initiatives to coordinate and concentrate investments from a variety of federal agencies that provide significant resources to develop regional centers of innovation, business incubators, and other strategies to encourage entrepreneurship and high-tech development. This has led to renewed interest in understanding the nature of innovation clusters and public policies associated with successful cluster development. The Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy (STEP), conducted a symposium which brought together state and federal government officials, leading analysts, congressional staff, and other stakeholders to explore the role of clusters in promoting economic growth, the government's role in stimulating clusters, and the role of universities and foundations in their development. Growing Innovation Clusters for American Prosperity captures the presentations and discussions of the 2009 STEP symposium on innovation clusters. It includes an overview highlighting key issues raised at the meeting and a summary of the meeting's presentations. This report has been prepared by the workshop rapporteur as a factual summary of what occurred at the workshop."--Publisher's description.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-169).
- Additional Formats (note)
- Also available online.
- Contents
- Keynote address: The role of research universities in the formation of regional innovation clusters: the impact of Arizona State University on metropolitan Phoenix / Michael Crow -- Panel I: Why clusters matter: innovation clusters and economic growth / moderator, William Kittredge -- Cluster development: a path to growth / Maryann Feldman -- Stimulating regional economies / Andrew Reamer -- Panel II: Regional innovation clusters: the Obama administration's innovation initiative / moderator, Jean Toal Eisen -- The geography of innovation: the federal government and the growth of regional innovation clusters / Jonathan Sallet -- New York State's NANO initiative / Pradeep Haldar -- The technology innovation program: connecting the dots / Marc G. Stanley -- Panel III: State and regional initiatives / moderator, Ed Paisley -- Clusters growing in Pennsylvania / Rebecca Bagley -- Building and branding clusters: lessons from Kansas and Philadelphia / Richard Bendis -- Virginia industry cluster analysis / John Mathieson -- The Washington State innovation economy / Egils Milbergs -- Luncheon address / Karen Mills -- Panel IV: The university connection / moderator, Robert Samors -- The Akron model / Luiz M. Proenza -- The South Carolina innovation ecosystem / David McNamara -- California initiatives / Ed Penhoet -- Panel V: Filling the gaps: the role of foundations / moderator, Jim Turner -- How innovation clusters are reviving the economies that 'urban renewal' destroyed / Christina Gabriel and Bomani Howze -- Building the workforce and the universities / Goerge W. Bo-Linn -- Roundtable: key issues and next steps forward / moderator, Charles Wessner, William P. Kittredge, Jim Turner.
- Call Number
- JBE 12-520
- ISBN
- 030915622X
- 9780309156226
- OCLC
- 768229576
- Title
- Growing innovation clusters for American prosperity : summary of a symposium / Charles W. Wessner, rapporteur ; Committee on Competing in the 21st Century: Best Practice in State and Regional Innovation Initiatives, Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy, Policy and Global Affairs, National Research Council of the National Academies.
- Imprint
- Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, c2011.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-169).
- Additional Formats
- Also available online.
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- Added Author
- Wessner, Charles W.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.
- Research Call Number
- JBE 12-520