BusinessWeek (Wadhwa) - The creation by entrepreneurs of a destination for tech companies in Rajasthan's Thar Desert shows it's time to rethink regional development planning.
For government officials and planning consultants looking to create regional economic growth and drive innovation, industry clusters are the Holy Grail. ... The trouble is that clusters engineered from the top down don't usually work. I am hard-pressed to find a single example that has proven an unqualified success because of government intervention or the advice provided by economic development experts.
The best example I've seen of a region that has successfully pursued cluster development is the unlikely locale of the Thar Desert in Rajasthan, India. It wasn't the government that made the magic happen, but the region's ambitious entrepreneurs who prodded officials to follow their lead and team up with them. In a few short years, that group has turned the sun-blasted state once known for backwardness and poverty into an up-and-coming destination for top technology companies around the world....
Monday, January 11, 2010
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