When we look at developing regional industry clusters, one of the key players has always been the media.
Spurring the development of clean energy industry clusters by funding new regional cluster initiatives and clean energy research consortia.
That strategy should include robust and long-term investments in areas such as research and innovation, manufacturing, market creation, workforce training and education, and the development of new, globally competitive industry clusters.
Typically an innovation index will use solid, reliable and traditional metrics like numbers of patents registered, number of third and fourth level maths and engineering graduates leaving university, and the existence of industry clusters.
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Participants from Thailand include policy makers, administrators, educators and representatives from the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Labour, the Federation of Thai Industries, the Thai Chamber of Commerce and other leading industry clusters.
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Can we be competitive through accelerating industry clusters?
By depending on a single industry, clusters have also left regions vulnerable to shifts in business power.
As a result, the industry growth clusters (aviation, specialized business services, life sciences, innovative manufacturing, and supply chain and logistics) have been gaining traction in our metro area.
New York, with some 174, 000 information jobs, and Los Angeles, with over 190, 000, retain the largest clusters of information industry jobs, but they are not growing as quickly as our top 10 metros.
One of the most famous clusters is that of the Hollywood film industry.
India has 380 manufacturing clusters, each dedicated to a particular industry.
Indeed, Emma Marcegaglia, president of Confindustria, Italy's main business lobby, says that more than 90 of Italy's 104 officially recognised clusters, the bedrock of the country's industry, are in difficulty.
In some cases, the ancillary services that grew up to service industrial clusters have remained in position and developed into vibrant new industries long after their original client industry has faded.
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