External Resources

Michael E. Porter's Homepage
http://www.isc.hbs.edu/ _____________________________________________________________________________
**Porter, Michael E. "Location, Competition, and Economic Development: Local Clusters in a
Global Economy," Economic Development Quarterly, 14(1) Feb. 2000: 15-34.
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Porter, Michael E. "The Economic Performance of Regions," Regional Studies 27(6&7)
Aug./Oct. 2003: 549-578.
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Industry Clusters - Food Processing in New York
http://www.empire.state.ny.us/NYS_Home_To_Business/Industry_Clusters/food_processing.asp
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Pennsylvania's Targeted Industry Clusters
http://www.paworkstats.state.pa.us/pubs/ic_foo.pdf
Agriculture and Food Production: Food Processing
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From the National Governor's Association (written by Stu Rosenfeld)
A Governor's Guide to. Cluster-Based Economic Development.
http://www.technet.org/resources/innovation_governGuide.pdf
http://www.eda.gov/ImageCache/EDAPublic/documents/pdfdocs/nga_5fclusters_2epdf/v1/nga_5fclusters.pdf
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The University of Wisconsin's Center for CED:
Industry Clusters as an Economic Development Strategy
http://www.uwex.edu/ces/cced/ne_clustersection1.pdf
http://www.uwex.edu/ces/cced/industryclusterindex.html
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The Ag. Marketing Resource center is an electronic, national resource for producers interested in
value-added agriculture. http://www.agmrc.org/agmrc/
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Making Sense of Clusters: Regional Competitiveness and Economic Development, Metropolitan
Policy Program, The Brookings Institution.

http://www.brookings.edu/metro/pubs/20060313_clusters.htm
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Proceedings of the 4th National Small Farm Conference, October 16-19, 2005,
Koury Convention Center, Greensboro, NC.

http://www.csrees.usda.gov/nea/ag_systems/pdfs/proceedings_05.pdf
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Cornell Small Farms Program
http://www.smallfarms.cornell.edu/pages/about/smallfarmsbrochure.pdf
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The Cluster Policies Whitebook
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