The Federal Role in Technology Cluster Formation
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Clusters are a key element of technology-based economic growth policy aimed at boosting the nation's technology clusters, which are regional concentrations of technology R&D and production, including pools of skilled labor, research facilities, and partnership mechanisms for research and production scale-up. This economic and policy analysis brief from the National Institute of Standards and Technology, an agency within the U.S. Department of Commerce, addresses what drives the formation of clusters and the types of policies that can be implemented at the federal level to promote and leverage cluster growth.
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