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INDUSTRY CLUSTER ROUNDTABLES
Promoting innovation in regional economic development
Health Care:
PTP Cluster Director: Pat Adkins
The Health Care cluster includes organizations, entities
and/or individuals that are involved with planning, managing, arranging for or
providing preventive, diagnostic, therapeutic and or treatment services, health
informatics, biotechnology research and development and/or other healthcare
related support services.
Creative Enterprises and the Arts:
PTP Cluster Director: Margaret
Collins
Creative Enterprises and the Arts includes individuals and
organizations with creative arts skills that work in collaboration with
managers and technology to create marketable products and services whose economic
value lies primarily in their cultural or intellectual properties.
Logistics and
Distribution:
PTP Cluster Director: Dave Hauser
Logistics and Distribution is composed of those business
establishments that directly engage in the transportation of products,
facilitate the transportation of products through their core business, support
the organizations that engage in or facilitate the transportation of products,
and media/associations who report on or otherwise engage in social
opportunities for those engaged in the transportation of products.
Advanced Manufacturing:
PTP
Cluster Director: Annie Tyson Jett
Advanced Manufacturing includes industries using innovative manufacturing technologies or
processes such as ground-breaking or unique manufacturing techniques and
machines, the application of information technology, microelectronics or
leading edge organizational practices. Firms may be in traditional or legacy industries (apparel, furniture, textiles and tobacco manufacturing), substantial growth industries (pharmaceutical, semiconductor, food processing, chemicals and plastics,
transportation equipment sectors) or emerging technologies (biotechnology, bionanotechnology, industrial
biotechnology, medical devices or nanotechnology).
