EDA's Fernandez on regionalism and innovation clusters

Here's an article from Stateline that covers much of the substance of Clear Innovation Partners' focus on regionalism, cluster development, etc.

Mills' fingerprints on the Obama FY11 budget vis-a-vis clusters

In February last year, I wrote in Mainebiz that SBA Adminstrator Karen Mills would be pushing for greater cross agency support for industry clusters--no predictive genius here...just paying attention to Mills' recommendations from her Brookings report. Brookings' Mark Muro notes in today's New Republic that this appears to be exactly what's happening in Obama's FY11 budget. EDA, SBA, USDA and DOL all have innovation/clusters initaitives.