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Panel III: Innovation Clusters and Economic Development
Panel III: Innovation Clusters and Economic Development
Pages 59-71
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Our panel is going to focus on how we can create policy changes, an economic climate, and a set of cooperative ventures that will provide the platform needed to generate great leverage." CLUSTERS AND THE NEXT OHIO ECONOMY: WHAT IS NEEDED Lavea Brachman Greater Ohio Policy Center Ms. Brachman, executive director of the Greater Ohio Policy Center, whose office is located in Columbus, said that she is also a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, where she has worked to identify a structure for policy reforms in Ohio.
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But when it joined with Brookings Institution's Metropolitan Policy Program, it saw that land use challenges could only be addressed after examining the local economies and determine why they were not growing. Last February it issued a report, "Restoring Prosperity," with 39 policy recommendations, beginning with "Ohio can compete in the next economy." 11 The report concluded that "metro areas and regions will drive that economy," but that substantial improvements in governance must be made if positive changes are to be affected.
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Agrarian economies were more localized, and not easily compatible with today's global economy based in metro regions. Land consumption, or sprawl, has outpaced population growth, and sprawl without population growth results in more local government.
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The efforts of employers, purchasers, developers, educators, and neighborhood groups must be fully engaged and coordinated. As an example, she pointed to the home ownership incentive program of Ohio State University and forgivable loans for the neighborhood by the University of Akron and Case Western Reserve.
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While the seven Hubs, she said, were products of the previous state administration, their objective of encouraging regional growth by connecting anchors with downtowns and with promising business clusters was a step "in the right direction." "This kind of economic restructuring and cluster development does not happen on its own," Ms. Brachman concluded, "and you need to be thinking how to organize it for success.
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"We talk almost every day about how you have to have competitive regions if you're going to have a strong national innovation agenda. And we have to focus what we do in my agency on the regions, and on innovation ecosystem development." The Power of Regional Collaboration Mr.
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create effective public and civic culture and institutions. As the agency tries to change course toward more effective innovation, he said, it develops a framework around jobs and innovation partnerships.
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We need an easier interface and from the Federal side a common framework to bring these fragmented programs together. This is a model the stakeholders and the customer want." He said that EDA was working with 15 other Federal agencies on a Jobs Innovation Accelerator, a $30 million competition for 20 pilot sites to develop locally chosen public-private partnerships around specific cluster initiatives.
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Toward that end, it plays a significant role in helping Cleveland gain a stronger position in the advanced energy and bioscience industries. To accomplish this, it involves itself with "public policy, launching new programs and organizations, and pursuing strategic partnerships with existing stakeholders locally, especially our large anchor institutions." Mr.
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A New Focus on Energy Mr. Richard said that he regarded energy as "the most important issue facing our country today," and that advanced energy development was a top priority because of its direct effects on every major sector, including transportation, food supply, the environment, and jobs.
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The foundation also supports BioEnterprise in launching a Health Tech Corridor, planned as a concentration of biomedical, health care, and other technology companies hoping to benefit from proximity to health care institutions and academic centers. The foundation gave a $5 million grant, the largest single grant in its history, to Case Western Reserve to start the Center for Proteomic Medicine, and in 2005 helped launch JumpStart, an organization that provides entrepreneurs with mentors as well as money and financing connections.
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Likewise, in Kansas is a strong aviation and advanced manufacturing cluster being driven by a several chambers of commerce. He said other solid examples are found, some of them in unexpected places, such as the strong cluster around Virginia Tech that was created with the help of tobacco settlement money.
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Dr. Lefton said that in northeast Ohio virtually all universities have a liberal policy that encourages tech transfer by leaving a "piece of the action" to the original investigator and a little to the university, and fosters collaboration between either of them and private business.
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