Industry clusters are networks of firms related to common markets, supply chain, infrastructure, innovation, technology, and labor pools. At the regional labor market level, they are partnerships of employers in one industry that bring together government, education, training, economic development, labor, and community organizations to focus of the workforce needs of their industry.
Sector partnerships, by definition, engage employers within a single industry to address their common workforce needs. In the best cases, sector partnership coordinators do more. They understand that by simply bringing employers into the same industry together, they trigger informal existing firms, attracting new one in job creation.
