The school believes the larger scale is needed to attract science-focused businesses to create a large cluster of researchers, a model used by other universities.

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One popular way to express lust for big data for its own sake is to create a gargantuan Hadoop cluster.

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This public-private partnership will create a regional economic innovation cluster focused on aerospace and energy technologies.

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The University of Texas at Austin has helped to create a high-technology cluster that employs around 100, 000 people in some 1, 700 companies.

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That is because a cluster will create pools of skilled labour, internationally competitive suppliers, access to venture capital and a sympathetic regulatory environment.

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Skolkovo, an attempt to create a Silicon Valley-style technology cluster outside Moscow, has won plenty of headlines (see article).

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