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Michael Porter’s Cluster Theory
- Michael E. Porter, The Competitive Advantage of Nations. New
York: The Free Press, 1990.
- Michael E. Porter, “Location, Clusters, and Company Strategy."
Oxford Handbook of Economic Geography
G. Clark, M. Gertler, and M. Feldman, eds. Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2000.
- Michael E. Porter, “Location, Competition and Economic Development: Local Clusters in a Global Economy”
Economic Development Quarterly 14, no. 1, February 2000: 15-34.
- Michael E. Porter, "Clusters and the New Economics of Competition"
Harvard Business Review, November-December 1998
- Michael E. Porter, "The Economic Performance of Regions: Measuring the
Role of Clusters" The Competitiveness Institute Annual Meeting,
Gothenburg, Sweden. 19 September 2003.
- Michael E. Porter with Christian H. M. Ketels, Kaia Miller & Richard T.
Bryden, "Competitiveness
in Rural U.S. Regions: Learning & Research Agenda" Institute for
Strategy & Competitiveness, Harvard Business School, February 25,
2004. (mentioned by Professor Porter at 4th Oregon
Leadership Summit. Additional info on rural clusters can be found at http://www.isc.hbs.edu/econ-rural.htm)
Oregon Clusters Information
Other States’ Cluster Development Efforts
Arizona
Cluster Analysis: A new Tool for Understanding the Role of the Inner City in a Regional Economy
Arizona’s Strategic Plan for Economic Development
Greater Tucson's Economic Development Program
California
California Economic Strategy Panel
University of California- California's Future: It Starts Here
San Diego Industrial Cluster Interactive Mapping
San Diego Regional Economic Development Corporation:
Technology Clusters
City
of San Diego Economic Development Strategy
Joint Venture:
Silicon Valley Network
Connecticut
Connecticut
Industry Clusters
Connecticut's Industry Cluster Initiative
Partnership for Growth: Connecticut's Economic Competitiveness Strategy
Florida
2004-2009 Strategic Plan for Economic Development
Louisiana
Louisiana Economic
Development- Clusters
Massachusetts
Massachusetts Technology Collaborative
Massachusetts Medical Device Industry Council
Minnesota
University
of Minnesota- Industry Cluster Studies
Minnesota Department of Employment & Economic Development
Montana
Montana Governor’s Office of Economic Opportunity-Cluster
Initiative
New York
Empire State Development-
Industry Clusters List
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania's Targeted Industry Clusters
Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development
Rhode Island
Rhode Island Technology Council
Texas
Texas Industry
Cluster Initiative
Wisconsin
Cluster Council Initiative
Ozaukee County Economic Development Strategy
Cluster-Based
Economic Development Research Firms
Collaborative
Economics
Provides tools that help civic leaders make a
persuasive "call to action." These can include a diagnostic
assessment of the regional economy, benchmarking against other communities, or
research and documentation of the best practices used in other regions.
Email:
info@coecon.com
Applied
Development Economics
ADE prepares long and short-term economic and
demographic forecasts of cities, counties, regions, and states. These
forecasts can be a key component of planning and market research efforts of
agencies as well as businesses. Employing an industry cluster-based approach
to economic development, ADE provides a comprehensive basis for understanding
regional economic conditions and trends as well as helping out clients meet
their policy challenges. ADE's proprietary methodology can handle both
micro-based cluster studies useful for target industry analysis and
broader-based regional studies.
Email: ade@adeusa.com
Advanced
Research Technologies
To drive strategic thinking and action,
ART has developed a series of analytical tools and processes. Its proprietary
entrepreneurship data collection instruments create previously unavailable
analytical inputs on emerging and high growth entrepreneurship and technology
and corporate venturing for an individual industry cluster, a minority
population or an entire regional economy. Its exclusive industry opportunity
analytics provide clients with dynamic industry cluster analyses that
specifically assess the interplay between entrepreneurship and cluster
development.
Email: info@advancedresearchtech.com
Regional
Technology Strategies
RTS works on issues and opportunities associated
with regional competitiveness, strategic planning for economic development
organizations, manufacturing modernization, the development and application of
technology policy, entrepreneurship, developmental finance, and technological
innovation. Recent projects include:
Montana
Industry Cluster Analysis, Western Indiana Cluster Analysis, Ford Cluster
Study, A States’ Handbook for Cluster-Based Economic Development.
Email: rosenfeld@rtsinc.org
The
Economic Competitiveness Group
The Economic Competitiveness Group is a group of
professional economists, planners, and management consultants dedicated to
helping clients achieve sustainable economic competitiveness using an
innovative, cluster-based methodology, a proven collaborative implementation
process, and a host of related analytical and institution-building services.
ECG specializes in assisting regions (metropolitan areas, states, countries,
and cross- border regions) to develop and implement action-oriented economic
development strategies.
Email: ecg@ECGroup.com
Impresa
Consulting
Impresa specializes in providing a range of
analytical services that are closely related to our core vision of helping our
clients deal with the unfolding challenges of the new economy. We assist
our clients to understand and measure economic change, design effective
strategies, not only for economic development, but education and workforce as
well. We also provide the tools--reports, presentations, printed and
electronic media--to get critical information to stakeholders.
Email:
jcortwright@impresaconsulting.com
Monitor
Group
Helps regions and countries to improve
competitiveness through rigorous economic and cluster analysis and building
coalitions to affect change.
Email: jgrogan@monitor.com
More Info on Clusters
Impresa Consulting's Joe Cortright delivered a presentation at the 2005
InnoTech Conference that helps us to visualize the economy in terms of
clusters, understand how clusters work, and learn more about identifying and
organizing Oregon's clusters.
Click here to view the cluster
presentation.
Dr. Christian H.M. Ketels, of the Institute for Strategy and
Competitiveness at Harvard Business School gave a presentation at the May 2003
EDA Conference in Washington, D.C. about Cluster Based Economic Development.
The presentation is based on ideas by Michael Porter and covers the
microeconomic foundations of competitiveness, takes a deeper look at clusters,
and discusses using clusters as a tool for economic policy.
Click here to view the cluster
presentation.
Christian H.M. Ketels. (2003) "The Development of the Cluster Concept
- present experiences and further developments."
Excellent overview of the conceptual framework and identification of clusters,
empirical evidence connecting clusters to economic performance, and rationale
and suggestions for cluster-based economic policy.
http://www.isc.hbs.edu/pdf/Frontiers_of_Cluster_Research_2003.11.23.pdf
The Competitiveness Institute: the cluster practitioners network
TCI is a not-for-profit alliance of cluster practitioners. TCI's mission
is to improve living standards and the local competitiveness of regions
throughout the world, by fostering cluster-based development initiatives.
http://www.competitiveness.org
/
Stuart A. Rosenfeld. (2002) "Creating Smart Systems: A guide to
cluster strategies in less favoured regions"
A report to the European Union-Regional Innovation Strategies.
http://www.rtsinc.org/publicat
ions/EU%20guide.pdf
(2002) "Just Clusters: Economic Development Strategies that Reach More
People
and Places" The collaborative result of a two-day intensive meeting of 23
practitioners, policy makers, and researchers.
This report refocuses cluster strategy on equity.
http://www.rtsinc.org/publicat
ions/just%20clusters.pdf
Stuart A. Rosenfeld. (2002) "A Governor’s Guide to Cluster-Based
Economic Development" Guide provides tools for structuring economic
development
policies to help business clusters become more innovative and
competitive.
http://www.nga.org/center
/divisions/1,1188,C_ISSUE
_BRIEF^D_4063,00.html
"A practical guide for developing clusters"
The UK Department of Trade and Industry (DTI)
This guide provides a snapshot of existing clusters across the United Kingdom
and informs about the development of clusters policy.
http://www.dti.gov.uk/clusters/ecotec-report/index.html
Regional Clusters of Innovation Project
The project, an initiative of the Council of Competitiveness from 1998 to
2001, developed a definitive framework to evaluate cluster development and
innovative performance at the regional level. It also shared analytic tools,
benchmarking results and lessons learned with key decision makers in every
part of the country.
http://www.compete.org/nri/clusters_innovation.asp
US Department of Commerce
Cluster-Based Economic Development
http://www.eda.gov/Research/ClusterBased.xml
The Global Cluster Initiative Survey (GCIS) is a research
project exploring microeconomic competitiveness projects throughout the world.
Using an on-line survey, GCIS collects systematic data about how these
projects are set up, how they operate, and what impact they have. It also
covers the economic and social context in which each project takes place. The
purpose is to contribute to the understanding of practices and drivers of
performance. To sign up for the survey or see the results of GCIS 2003
in The Cluster Initiative Greenbook, visit:
www.cluster-research.org
Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness
Harvard Business School
www.isc.hbs.edu
Lee W. Munnich, Jr., Greg Schrock, & Karen Cook. (2002)
"Rural
Knowledge Clusters: The Challenge of Rural Economic Prosperity" The
Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota. This
report explores “rural knowledge clusters” as a model for high-performance
rural economies. It begins with a discussion of the theory and history of
industry clusters, and the application of this model to rural economies.
Lessons drawn from research on rural clusters lead to a proposed model of
rural knowledge clusters. Characteristics of this model are then discussed,
including the importance of knowledge to cluster activity. Preliminary
evidence on the application of this model to three innovative rural Minnesota
economies is presented. The final sections explore the economic development
implications of this rural knowledge cluster model, and the role that public
policy could play in assisting with that development."
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