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Growing Innovation Clusters for American Prosperity: Summary of a Symposium
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.

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Growing Innovation Clusters for American Prosperity: Summary of a Symposium
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.

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Growing Innovation Clusters for American Prosperity: Summary of a Symposium

Growing Innovation Clusters for American Prosperity: Summary of a Symposium

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780309156226
Publisher: National Academies Press
Publication date: 11/12/2011
Pages: 186
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.50(d)

Table of Contents

Preface xiii

I Overview 1

II Summary of Presentations 29

Welcome Charles Wessner 31

Opening Remarks Susan Crawford 35

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 39

Panel I Why Clusters Matter: Innovation Clusters and Economic Growth Moderator: William Kittredge 47

Cluster Development: A Path to Growth Maryann Feldman 47

Stimulating Regional Economies Andrew Reamer 52

Panel II Regional Innovation Clusters: The Obama Administration's Innovation Initiative Jean Toal Eisen 57

The Geography of Innovation: The Federal Government and the Growth of Regional Innovation Clusters Jonathan Sallet 57

New York State's NANO Initiative Pradeep Haldar 61

The Technology Innovation Program: Connecting the Dots Marc G. Stanley 65

Panel III State and Regional Initiatives Moderator: Ed Paisley 71

Clusters Growing in Pennsylvania Rebecca Bagley 71

Building and Branding Clusters: Lessons from Kansas and Philadelphia Richard Bendis 74

Virginia Industry Cluster Analysis John Mathieson 80

The Washington State Innovation Economy Egils Milbergs 83

Luncheon Address Karen Mills 89

Panel IV The University Connection Robert Samors 93

The Akron Model Luis M. Proenza 93

The South Carolina Innovation Ecosystem David McNamara 97

California Initiatives Ed Penhoet 99

Panel V Filling the Gaps: The Role of Foundations Jim Turner 105

How Innovation Clusters Are Reviving the Economies that 'Urban Renewal' Destroyed Christina Gabriel Bomani Howze 105

Building the Workforce and the Universities George W. Bo-Linn Betty Moore 108

Roundtable: Key Issues and Next Steps Forward Charles Wessner Luis M. Proenza William P. Kittredge Jim Turner R. Lee Cheatham 115

III Appendixes 123

A Agenda 125

B Biographies of Speakers 129

C Participants List 147

D Bibliography 153

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