Join us Thursday, January 13, at 2:00 pm EST for the 2011 Know Your Region webinar series kick-off: Mapping the Nation’s Regional Innovation Clusters.
Dr. Ketels of the HBS Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness
This Know Your Region webcast will offer a detailed overview of the recently announced Cluster Mapping Project spearheaded by Michael Porter’s Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness at the Harvard Business School.
U.S. Assistant Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development John Fernandez will deliver opening remarks prior to introducing Dr. Christian Ketels, Principal Associate at the Institute of Strategy and Competitiveness.
Funded by the U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA), the Cluster Mapping Project aims to provide policymakers and development practitioners across America with rich data and tools for understanding industry clusters in every region of the country.
Dr. Ketels is a member of the Harvard Business School faculty. He holds a PhD (Econ) from the London School of Economics and is a Honorary Professor at the European Business School in Wiesbaden and a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Strategy and Competitiveness at the Stockholm School of Economics. He has led cluster and competitiveness projects in many parts of the world, has written widely on economic policy issues, and is a Director of The Competitiveness Institute, a not-for-profit global network of cluster practitioners and researchers.
This webcast is the first in a bi-weekly Know Your Region series. For information on upcoming events please visit: http://www.knowyourregion.org/upcoming-events
The NADO Research Foundation is conducting this web broadcast as part of a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Economic Development.
This was simply the best webinar I’ve ever attended. Period. When do you get the opportunity, for free(!), to hear firsthand cutting edge research from a Harvard Business School professor. These are not only ideas that matter, they are tools we must use to strengthen our economic and workforce development efforts. Bravo!
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