Found at: http://www.competitiveness.org/article/articleprint/828/-1/14/
As one of a series of publications produced under the Innovation America initiative, the new National Governor's Association's Innovation America guide by Dr. Stuart Rosenfeld (president of Regional Technology Strategies, Inc.) examines what cluster strategies work best in a changing and challenging global economy.
Co-published by the NGA and the Council on Competitiveness, the Innovation America initiative aims to strengthen America's competitive position in this new context. To enable the US economy to continue growing, focus must be on competition based on innovation.
In the global economy of today, creative talent has become more mobile, firms in emerging nations quickly enter markets by integrating themselves in global value chains and investments from all over the world is combined with low-cost and high-skilled native labor force.
To address America's innovation and competitiveness challenges, the Council on Competitiveness joined with NGA in publishing this new publication. The goal is to provide governors with the information needed in order for them to encourage entrepreneurship, improve education and align it with local economic growth, and develop innovation strategies on a regional level.
The Governor's Guide examines the changing economic environment in which clusters function, summarizes lessons learned from recent experience and offers practical recommendations for cluster intiatives.
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