This study on the Precision Manufacturing Regional Alliance of Massachusetts’ Pioneer Valley illustrates how a region can position its roots in a declining industry into strengths for new cluster growth. Located in the western part of Massachusetts, the Pioneer Valley has deep foundations in manufacturing that include textiles, paper, electrical components, and precision machining.

As this report from the NADO Research Foundation illustrates, over the last 30 years South Carolina has developed a flourishing, globally competitive automotive and ground transportation cluster that has become a major engine of economic growth in the state.

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.

Commercial real estate services firm Jones Lang LaSalle's third annual High-Technology Office Outlook is a comprehensive study of one of the most innovative and dynamic industries in the United States, its impact on local economies, and the growth generated within the commercial real estate sector. From Detroit and the automobile industry in the early 1900s to the San Francisco Bay Area in the 21st century, many predecessors of innovation and advancement have existed over the years, emerging with each new era.