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Earlier this month, the Economic Development Administration awarded a grant of $725,000 to the Detroit Regional Chamber to build regional innovation clusters. Interestingly, the chamber is branding its approach The Open Innovation Initiative. Read more.

The framework of using open networks to build a regional innovation strategy has gone mainstream.

For the past couple of years, we have been working on developing a simple, repeatable process to form these clusters. We have developed a practical framework that we are deploying nationally through a new university network, led by Penn State, Purdue and The University of Akron.

We have used this framework, for example, to build the fresh water cluster in the Milwaukee 7 region and a new clean energy cluster in Brevard County, Florida.

The new university network will launch in December in Washington.

How Regional Innovation Clusters Form


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