Regional Industry Clusters and Rural America

Hot off the presses is our new report called, Unlocking Rural Competitiveness: The Role of Regional Clusters. This was a collaboration of PCRD and the Indiana Business Research Center (IBRC) at Indiana University and funded by the U. S. Economic Development Administration (EDA). The result is a model that can be used by America's rural regions to help them understand how to maximize their regional economic advantages. A very extensive companion website is available (here) with lots of tools and data including some fascinating GIS maps that show the distribution of key industry clusters across the U.S. If you want to go straight to the full report (277 pages) go here. You can also get the press release here from Inside Indiana Business