The increasing number of Japanese manufacturing plants locating in the United States presents new opportunities for state and local economic development policy. This article compares the location decisions of Japanese start-ups in manufacturing with counterpart domestic industry and concludes...

Although industry clusters are becoming the focus of state economic development policies, most states continue to define clusters in ad hoc ways, often focusing only on clusters of firms in single industries. Such policies run the risk of wasting development resources by neglecting important...