Authors: Rosemarie Braden, Hal Fossum, Ivan Eastin, John Dirks and Eini Lowell Executive SummaryInterest in manufacturing clusters has increased since the recognition that inter-firm cooperation has helped develop internationally competitive industries in several European countries. Manufacturing clusters, defined as groups of firms located within a defined geographic region that have developed cooperative links with each other, […]

Authors: ​Steven R. Shook, William R. Turner and Ivan L. Eastin Executive SummaryA sizable literature concerned with technological substitution modeling exists within the domain of forest products. These models have generally been used to develop market share forecasts for various forest products and their substitutes based on relative product prices. Substitution models usually assume that the […]