Cluster Leaders Meeting: Building and Maintaining a Successful Cluster
As part of its continuing efforts to support development of environmental technology innovation clusters, the U.S. EPA organized a Water Technology Innovation Cluster Leaders Meeting on September 28th, 2014 at the Water Environment Federation’s Annual Technical Exhibition and Conference (WEFTEC) in New Orleans. This meeting focused on organizational strategies and funding models for water clusters, with presentations from cluster development specialists and other experts.
EPA partnered with the Water Environment Federation, who graciously hosted the meeting, and Imagine H2O to support this event.
Presentations given at the event are available for download below, and a full summary report for the meeting will be available on this page once it is complete.
Presentations
- Your Cluster Initiative: Moving to the Next Level (86 pp, 3 MB, About PDF) - Fred Phillips, General Informatics LLC
- The Business Model for Sustainable Financing (17 pp, 1 MB, About PDF) - Rebecca Bagley, NorTech