What To Do with the Wood?

Raleigh, North Carolina Case Study

Steve Bratkovich, Dovetail Partners, Minneapolis

Outline Lessons Learned from the Past

New Model: Clusters

Cluster Examples

Recommendations

Past Couple Decades…

Past Couple Decades…

And lots under the radar

Industry Clusters Groups

Geographic Region

Links

Mutual Benefit

Cluster Ingredients…

Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Leadership, Commitment and Collaboration

Need Leader Committed and Willing to Collaborate

Stakeholders

Issues

Interventions/Strategies

Intervention: More Log Yards

Where to Find Leader?

Recommendations…

Use Cluster Model

What’s Present, Absent, Needs Bolstering

Key Points…

Entrepreneurship & Innovation

Leadership, Commitment & Collaboration

Leader is needed!

Although Not Cluster Strategy Strong UF

program is key

Can serve as a foundation