Karen Mills is increasingly talking clusters

In 2006, I invited Karen Mills to join the board of a venture capital fund I manage. She agreed to join and then left in 2008 to join the Obama transition team; in April 2008, Karen was named as Administrator of the SBA. Karen has been a longtime advocate of regional industry/innovation clusters and has begun to speak more and more about her interest in the context of her new role. She's spent much of her first year dealing with TARP and working to reactivate credit markets. I've noted an increasing trend in her referencing industry/innovation clusters in that context. Here's a recent piece from thestreet.com.