Washington State is offering regions the chance to apply for five industry-cluster-based “Innovation Partnership Zone” designations, each of which comes with $1 million in grants to create a research park.
Minnesota is jump-starting rural economic development with an initiative called SEED (Strategic Entrepreneurial Economic Development), which is focused on small business creation.
San Francisco has spent 30 years developing a biotech / life sciences cluster, and after these decades of investment and struggle, is poised to reap the benefits.
Thanks to EDPro for rounding up these and other great stories.