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Regional clusters can spark growth

Today, it is one of the nation’s high-growth regional innovation clusters — groups of companies, educational institutions, municipalities, sometimes even states, working together to create the best possible climate for business.

If you want to see how American communities can reinvent themselves to compete in today’s global economy, just walk through downtown Pittsburgh. Once abandoned steel plants now house a thriving cluster of innovative robotics companies.

This didn’t randomly happen. Pittsburgh’s leaders made a concerted effort to develop a regional economic cluster as the centerpiece of the city’s economic development strategy.

By JOHN FERNANDEZ

Full Story: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/65636.html

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