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Panel II: Clustering for Growth (Continued)
Panel II: Clustering for Growth (Continued)
Pages 60-67
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Mills thanked the previous speakers for explaining the Energy Regional Innovation Cluster, which she described as "an incredibly exciting coming together of ideas we've all been working on for years. We are very proud to be a collaborator on that." She also thanked Under Secretary Johnson for supporting the Small Business Innovation Research grant program, which is managed by the SBA.
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"I was off and running clusters as the base for economic development," she said. Maine established a fund to promote cluster development.
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"Now I have the good fortune to have the best job in the world," she said. "Now we are in a good position to do something we have been talking about for years, which is to have the federal government play a meaningful role in regional economic development clusters." The SBA is involved in other cluster initiatives besides the Energy Regional Innovation Cluster program, Ms.
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The ones mentioned by Under Secretary Johnson and Ginger Lew are competitive models with very large scales. In Maine, she said, "I feel like we had a traditional, organic approach to clustering." The robotics clusters in Michigan, Virginia, and Hawaii are of a much smaller scale with smaller funding and tend to involve a single customer from the federal government to create demand.
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This policy is presented as the first White House-led "national economic development framework." Mr. Fernandez highlighted the Obama Administration's Energy Regional Innovation Cluster Initiative and the $129.7 million competition to establish an Energy Innovation Hub and commercialize new energy-efficient building technologies.23 The innovation policy was partly in response to the deep recession, Mr.
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EDA also has partnered with research organizations to develop and produce instructional tools for economic development practitioners. For example, the agency collaborated with the National Association of Development Organizations to produce an online, self-paced curriculum called "Know Your Region" that explains the benefits of regional planning, tools to formulate regional strategies, and best practices.
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"There is a whole spectrum of places where our programs can be aligned to support these kinds of initiatives," he said. As the only government agency with economic development as its sole mission, EDA plays an important role in the effort to enhance America's long-term competitiveness.
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Fernandez said federal agencies can play a powerful role in stimulating regional development. The way to move forward, he said in summary, is for agencies to align their resources, shine a light on meaningful and impactful initiatives, find smart ways to do their work, and customize the way they invest federal resources "to support this bottom-up growth of strong, organic clusters." In terms of EDA itself, Mr.
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