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Pittsburgh's evolving steel legacy and the steel technology cluster

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Using an industry studies approach, this article provides an assessment of a cluster of product and service providers that have leveraged regional expertise in a declining industry (steel) to continue to supply technology to a global industry. The formation of Pittsburgh's steel technology cluster has depended on three main regional factors: location, labour and legacy. In particular, Pittsburgh's expertise and long tradition in metallurgy and materials science has been the ultimate source of the cluster's success and the region's resilience. The results of this research have practical and theoretical implications for regional economic development policy and its relationship to path dependence. Copyright 2009, Oxford University Press.

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  • Carey Durkin Treado, 2009. "Pittsburgh's evolving steel legacy and the steel technology cluster," Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, Cambridge Political Economy Society, vol. 3(1), pages 105-120.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:cjrecs:v:3:y:2009:i:1:p:105-120
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    1. Jerry Courvisanos & Ameeta Jain & Karim K. Mardaneh, 2016. "Economic Resilience of Regions under Crises: A Study of the Australian Economy," Regional Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 50(4), pages 629-643, April.
    2. Christiane Gebhardt, 2011. "The Entrepreneurial State: The German Entrepreneurial Regions’ Programme as an Attenuator for the Financial Crisis," European Planning Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 20(9), pages 1469-1482, December.
    3. Markus M. Bugge & Sara Øiestad, 2015. "The Micro-foundations of Regional Branching-the Case of Digitization of Publishing," European Planning Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 23(4), pages 764-784, April.

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