Steve Bratkovich

1. What To Do with the Wood?
Raleigh, North Carolina Case Study
Steve Bratkovich, Dovetail Partners,
Minneapolis

2. Outline
 Lessons Learned from the Past
 New Model: Clusters
 Cluster Examples
 Recommendations

3. Past Couple Decades…

4. Past Couple Decades…
And lots under the radar

5. Industry Clusters
 Groups
 Geographic Region
 Links
 Mutual Benefit

6. Cluster Ingredients…

7. Entrepreneurship and
Innovation

8. Leadership, Commitment and
Collaboration

9. Need Leader Committed and
Willing to Collaborate
 Stakeholders
 Issues
 Interventions/Strategies

10. Intervention: More Log Yards

11. Where to Find Leader?

12. Recommendations…
 Use Cluster Model
 What’s Present, Absent, Needs Bolstering

13. Key Points…
 Entrepreneurship & Innovation
 Leadership,Commitment & Collaboration
 Leader is needed!

14. Although Not Cluster Strategy
 Strong UF program
is key
 Can serve as a
foundation