Friday, October 11, 2002
After spending $500,000 on consultants, the State of Louisiana and the Baton Rouge Chamber of Commerce are prepared to launched their Capital Region Competitive Strategy. The region covers nine parishes, centered on Baton Rouge.
The targeted clusters are energy and petrochemicals; agriculture and food products; forest products; tourism and entertainment; transportation; health care and biomedicine; and information technology. The eighth cluster, environmental services and security services, is a "seed" cluster in its early stages of development. Download the report from their web site. Go
While a cluster-based strategy makes sense for Louisiana, there's arisk of diverting attention away from even more critical issues facing the state. These include: fixing the state's primary and secondary education systems, building up the state's technology base at colleges and universities, and streamlining technology licensing. Learn more. Go
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Louisiana releases cluster based strategy report
