If you want to see how American communities can reinvent themselves to compete in today’s global economy, just walk through downtown Pittsburgh. Once abandoned steel plants now house a thriving cluster of innovative robotics companies.
This didn’t randomly happen. Pittsburgh’s leaders made a concerted effort to develop a regional economic cluster as the centerpiece of the city’s economic development strategy.
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