Kansas Strategic Technology Cluster Assessment and a Plan for the 21st Century

The Kansas Technology Enterprise Corporation (KTEC) assessment determines that KTEC should focus its commercialization efforts on those specific technology areas where opportunity is high and where the elements are in place to deliver those benefits to the state’s economy. The reports discussion of the strategic technology cluster assessment precedes a strategic plan that outlines several recommendations within four selected technology areas: information technology, aviation, human biosciences, and agricultural biotechnology.

Competencies of Regions and the Role of the National Research

The paper unveils some of the characteristics of Canadian clusters created by spillovers generated by knowledge-intensive industries. The paper also strives to develop the concept of regions as a nexus of competence, a notion that has already been put forward for firms, but that deserves to be extended to regions within nations and, ultimately, to nations as well.

Cluster Based Economic Competitiveness: A Key to Regional Competitiveness

Drawing on case studies of 17 initiatives and more than a decade of state and local experience in regional and economic development, this summary describes a framework for regional economic development based on the recognition that healthy regional economies are composed of industry clusters including their supporting economic infrastructure.