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A couple of months ago, Maine's Office of Innovation released a review of its cluster strategy. Launched about five years ago, the strategy is designed to focus resources on investments with the highest probability of transforming the state's economy.
The report includes a particularly useful drawing of how the emerging and established clusters connect.
We will be seeing more use of visual tools to explain cluster strategies. The reason is simple. The concept of clusters is inherently spatial. The focus is not only on geographic proximity but (and this factor is more important) on the relationships among organizations and firms.
These drawings also highlight another, trend: the move toward more organic descriptions of economic activity and away from more traditional, mechanistic visual models.
As we move to integrate business clusters and occupational clusters, we will see career pathways in the form of maps. Again, the complexity of these connections (they are not linear) makes maps most useful.
You can read more about the Maine cluster initiative here.
The attachments include the Maine reports.
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