Cluster Examples

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Cluster Examples

• Just Clusters
• Cluster
• Implementation
• Workshops

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Montanas clusters Interdependent, not mutually
exclusive
AutoCad Web design GIS
Wood-Based Enterprises
Inform. Techn.
Bioinformatics Clinical research
Life Sciences
Creative Enterprises
Customized design Wood art
Experience Enterprises Tourism
Food Processing
Market outlets Galleries,shows
Ag-related biotech Nutriceuticals
The whole is greater than the sum of its parts
Agri-tourism MT specialty foods
E-commerce
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Montanas Wood Products Cluster

• Loggers and Sawmills
• Log Homes
• Wood Parts and Products
• Furniture and Other Consumer Products
• Paper and Pulp

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Numbers in selected categories and totals
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Wood Competitiveness Factors
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Recommendations and Actions

• Establish a one-stop shop for the cluster
• Action Create and staff a Wood
  Competitiveness Center to work with existing
  associations to organize and coordinate
  information and expertise, and to fill gaps in
  services
• 2. Organize learning and training networks
• Action Provide modest incentives to the MMEC
  and to industry organizations to broker, and to
  firms to participate in, networks for problem
  solving or for developing their workers skills
• 3. Establish branding and a Montana Design Center
• Action Establish a Montana Wood Design
  Center as a marketing and educational center with
  staff and a rotating short-term resident expert

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Recommendations and Actions

• 4. Create a competitive research and innovation
  grant program to identify new uses or markets for
  forest products
• Action The program may be managed by a
  university but must have a simple application
  process and management by industry peers
• 5. Make Montana parks, roads, and tourism offices
  showcases for Montana wood
• Action Require that Montana wood be used
  for all state park facilities, transportation
  structures, using designer wood products when
  possible
• 6. Incubate new creative wood-based enterprises
• Action Establish two incubators for
  secondary wood products companies in areas with
  large concentrations of wood manufacturing

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Montanas Creative Enterprise Cluster
Social Infrastructure Associations,
Non-profits, Collaboratives, Guilds, Networks
Suppliers Materials Packaging Framing Tools
Markets Coops Galleries Shops E-commerce
Core Enterprises I. Artists, crafts, writers,
performers (Individuals) 5,835 II.
Arts, crafts, media, entertainment,
publishers (Production firms) 104 III.
Designers, decorators, architects,
advertising, etc. (Creative services)
527
Equipment
Outsourcing Foundries Publishers Photo
service Printers
Services Agents Studios Public relations Non-profi
ts
Labor Pool Prof, Skilled Support, Administration
Other benefits Impacts on Education Attraction/ame
nities Incorporate in products
Sources of skills knowledge Peers,
colleges/universities, workshops
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Percent self-employed in Montana
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Montana Service Agencies forCreative Enterprise
Cluster
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Competitiveness Factors
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Sample Recommendations

• Recognize and develop measures for economics of
  creative enterprise cluster
• Emphasis design competencies in public education
• Connect artisans to distant markets
• Improve entrepreneurial skills of artisans
• Establish statewide one-stop resource center
• Marry creative enterprises with companies making
  products that depend on appearance or content

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Montana State U.-Great FallsCreative Arts
Enterprise Certificate

• Foundation Core
• Communications for Marketing
• Introduction to Artrepreneurship
• Strategies of Bus. Communication
• Business Mathematics

• Applied Art Strand
• Making It I
• Making It II
• Mentors
• Capstone Project

Artrepreneurship art grounded in impulse, and
entrepreneurship share this sine qua non the
habit, and the nuanced ability to recognize
opportunity and respond creatively.

• Entrepreneurship Strand
• Arts Marketing
• Creative Entrepreneurship
• Creative Technology
• Artisan Launch

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Montana Bio Mission Statement

• The Montana BioScience Alliance serves as a hub
  for Montanas biotechnology companies,
  entrepreneurs, laboratories, hospitals, clinics
  and universities to commercialize new
  technologies and to start, grow and sustain
  globally competitive bioscience companies
  ultimately to create high-quality jobs and
  economic opportunity in Montana.

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Objectives

• Exchange information about common issues and
  opportunities
• Support initiatives to start, grow, or attract
  new firms
• Pool resources to pursue joint training, RD and
  business development
• Educate public and students about life science
  career opportunities
• Build the states life sciences research base
• Extend education, training and business
  development outreach to the disadvantaged places
  and people
• Serve as interface between life sciences cluster
  and state government to implement and improve
  cluster development strategy
• Assist in commercialization of new technologies

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Creating Synergies

• 85 Members of Alliance
• World class technology and biotechnology
  incubator
• 10,000 sq. ft. facility with wet lab space
• Networks advisors, talent, service providers,
  investors
• Programs for excellence
• Partners TechLink, Center for Entrepreneurship
  for the New West, Montana State University
• Turn-key office space, shared resources, T1
  Internet

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WNC Changing the terms of economic development

• Comprehensive approach
• Craft, Garden, Heritage Trails
• Model homes
• Apprenticeships
• Integrating design into manufacturing
• EnergyXchange
• Cooperative marketing
• Handmade Holidays

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Handcrafted Architectural Elements
HandMade in America works with local designers
and architects to integrate crafted goods into
new and renovated homes. Their 2006 loose leaf
sourcebook describes that various is indexed by
type of material and application in house.
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North Carolinas Green Incubators

• EnergyXchange in western part of state uses
  methane from 6 acre dump area powers glass and
  ceramic studios, horticulture, galleries, visitor
  center.
• Partnership between community college, county,
  HandMade
• 1000s of visitors each year
• Student interns from college take courses at site

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Haywood Community College

• Starting 30th year
• Degree programs in fibers, clay, jewelry, wood
• Support classes in business planning, craft
  history, marketing, design (waiting list for all)
• Real Enterprises entrepreneurial training
• Arts Business Institutes
• Exhibits students work at regions top
  galleries, Southern Highlands Crafts Shows

See www.rtsinc.org/asheville
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Self-employment in selected sectors in North
Carolina
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Preserving Manufacturing in NC Catawba River
Valley the Hosiery Cluster

• Despite loss of apparel and textile HOSIERY
  remains strong in NC
• Region has been highly dependent on manufacturing
• 35,000 jobs in hosierynot including suppliers
• 4,000,000,000 in sales
• Produces 60 of all U.S. hosiery production
• Mostly firms with less than 75 employees
• Many are family owned, 2nd and 3rd generation

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Hosiery Technology Center Catawba Valley
Community College (Hickory, North Carolina)

• Trains entry level workers and technicians
• ESL using hosiery environment as context
• Trains management and customers
• Conducts quality testing for companies
• Demonstrates new equipment
• Web site for jobs, procurement and e-commerce
• Brokers research and production networks
• Lean manufacturing, product development
• Design and finding niche markets

www.legsource.com
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Key Partnerships

• Manufacturing Extension Partnerships for Lean
  Manufacturing.
• NC and US Department of Commerce for exports and
  research of overseas markets.
• NC Department of Labor - OSHA.
• NC State University College of Textiles with
  Testing Protocols.
• NC General Assembly
• Carolina Hosiery Association - Strategic planning
  and government lobbying efforts.