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Economic Cluster Policy Begins to Work

July 16, 2013 /

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Bear Paw Development Corporation is a private non-profit organization created for the purpose of administering programs to help improve regional economic conditions in Hill, Blaine, Liberty, Chouteau and Phillips Counties and the Fort Belknap and Rocky Boy's Indian Reservations.

For several years now the Obama administration has actively promoted regional economic cluster initiatives–various growth-driving projects comprising local networks of large and small firms, university researchers, regional economic organizations, investors, and training groups.

So do they work? Do cluster grants and local initiatives really deliver material benefits to individual firms and regional economies? Let’s review the record.

Full Story: http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/the-avenue/posts/2013/07/09-economic-cluster-policy-muro

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