Front Matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Executive Summary -- Introduction -- Findings -- III PROCEEDINGS -- Opening Remarks -- Panel I The U.S. Experience: SEMATECH -- Panel II Current Japanese Partnerships: Selete and ASET -- Panel III European Partnerships -- Panel IV The Taiwanese Approach --...

Annotation, The Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) - a program of the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology - has sought for more than two decades to strengthen American manufacturing. It is a national network of affiliated manufacturing extension...

FrontMatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- I: OVERVIEW -- GROWING CLUSTERS FOR AMERICAN PROSPERITY: OVERVIEW -- II: SUMMARY OF PRESENTATIONS -- WELCOME--Charles Wessner -- OPENING REMARKS--Susan Crawford -- KEYNOTE ADDRESS--Michael Crow -- PANEL I: WHY CLUSTERS MATTER: INNOVATION CLUSTERS AND...