Academic Summit
Breakout Session
Pacific Northwest Clusters and Policy
Session Organizer/Discusant:
Sheila Martin, Director, Institute of Portland Metropolitan Studies, Portland State University
Clusters in the Puget Sound and the state of Washington
Paul Sommers, Seattle University, USA
Local factors in cluster development: a study of software publishing in Oregon and Washington, 1993–2005
John Gorlorwulu, George Fox University and Brian Evans, Oregon Economic and Community Development Department, USA
Portland's artisan economy
Charles Heying, Marianne Ryder and Shanna Eller, Portland State University, USA
Sustainable food supply chains: how farming influences practices
Mellie Pullman and Jesse Dillard, Portland, State University, USA
