They are working on everything from road and metro construction to an industrial clustering program, export training and information, business incubators and changing governmental industrial policy.

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That region, as Jonah Lehrer has pointed out, manages to emulate the functions of bigger, denser cities by encouraging the clustering of talent and enterprise and fostering a high level of information-sharing.

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