Practical clusters needed for regional innovation.
Practical clusters require entrepreneurs.
Regional, rural and remote areas want to see more integration between the many and different programs supposedly designed to support the growth of innovation while promoting sustainable development. Therefore, practical clusters run by the people who live there are required.
We need to strengthen the capacity of more impoverished towns and villages, which should be a higher priority as new technologies extend the reach of clusters. Unfortunately, most projects stamped with the seal of government approval do not match the logic and objectives of the people who live there.
Corporations, academics, and governments tend to discuss how global forces shape the choices we need to make about our communities rather than the needs of the real people who live and work there, who have the need and want to innovate for their future success.
Clusters can thread multiple funding streams together to promote regional development. But some bureaucrats and academics say fragmented schemes make this impossible, and reforms can’t advance. I beg to differ if you know how to assemble a cluster.
Why aren’t clusters being developed to help regional communities?
- Failure to identify suitable entrepreneurs
- Lack of knowledge about clusters and implementing clusters
- Poor funding support.
Ideas are in abundance; implementation is the problem.
Ideas and opportunities from the local business sector are abundant; however, too many government funding programs are poorly focused and complicated.
People want to get on with it, not be stifled by countless boring meetings and red tape. The processes involved need to be simplified and enhanced with various economic gardening programs.
Keep in mind, if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys. Experienced people know it takes money upfront to build worthwhile clusters.
Quotable Quotes
“It’s great for people to think in terms of ‘regional development’ and ‘community strategies’; however, the individual choices and actions are the primary drivers”. Peter Sergeant