Abstract
As part of this special issue of Industry and Higher Education, we include this unique report on clusters and innovation development in the USA with special reference to the state of Kansas. The report highlights exciting new developments in a state that is looking at new ways of promoting innovation and regional growth, involving the private and public sectors, with universities and other research organizations as key players. The evidence contained in the document offers useful pointers for policy development in the area of cluster-based economic regeneration. The report focuses on the need to address imaginatively complex issues that connect with each other. It also provides a factual backdrop to the rest of this issue and the research-based articles that bring together facts, figures and ideas for greater connectivity. The report is reproduced here with the kind permission of the Kansas Technology Enterprise Corporation.
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