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Searching for an edge, many regions are applying the concept of clustering with renewed zeal. The idea of focusing a geographic area on a particular industry in order to achieve economies of scale has been kicking around since at least 1890, when the economist Alfred Marshall coined the term "industrial district" to refer to neighborhoods that contained both factories and all their workers. In the 1990s, Harvard's Porter started using the word "cluster" to get at the usefulness of companies in close proximity sharing infrastructure, ideas and employees - like high performance cars in Germany. Some predicted that a globalized...
Turkey established a textiles cluster to try to fend off lower-cost rivals. Jordan has positioned itself a regional center for medical services. Singapore is making a play for biotechnology. Of course, there is always a risk in spending massive amounts of focus and money on one sector since so many factors have to align for economic development to work. "Is Singapore really where the top scientists in the world want to be working?" asks Carana Corp.'s Tugendhat. "Just because you build a great campus doesn't mean they're going to come...
Women the world over may find a miracle brewing in a place called Uruka Amahuaja, a cluster of huts in the Venezuelan rain forest, reachable only by dugout canoe. Biologist Ramiro Royero has set up a computerized field office there to collect data on a plant still unknown to the outside world: a shrub whose poinsettia-like leaves are steeped as a medicinal tea by the Piaroa tribe to relieve menstrual cramps--without the caffeine jitters and other side effects caused by most of today's commercial remedies...
Fantastic's offices in the commercial district are a stone's throw from the old town center, a cluster of medieval buildings overlooking the lake and snowy peaks of the Rigi and Pilatus mountains. Winding pedestrian streets beckon with restaurants and tea rooms, where the local specialty is Zuger Kirschtorte, a sponge cake soaked in cherry liqueur and sprinkled with powdered sugar. You can try it at the Confiserie Speck--which is also a place where you might just spot Marc Rich...
...century should be open, accessible to everyone, and that Harvard should take the lead in making that happen.”DIGITAL ACQUISITIONSWith electronic resources and acquisitions becoming more and more common, the Harvard Library faculty has had to grapple with how to manage these materials. Digital publications still cluster in areas of science, technology, and medicine, and the high prices of these materials are subject to the whims of publishers. While the faculty of Harvard is fighting to obtain the rights to their own published works so that they can be used free of charge, the library system...