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Members of the cluster have common interest in areas such as: securing better access and availability to common resources (e.g. wood, human resources and perhaps capital), reducing or containing the cost of energy and transportation, improving productivity and innovation across the industry, and having access to better and more cost-competitive goods and services in close proximity.   Certainly all cluster members will benefit from a more favorable and attractive investment and business climate in the region. These are the areas of common interest and the basis for a cluster-wide set of initiatives that should engage all participants. Critical Issues   1.      Primary Resources 2.      Human Resources 3.      Cost-competitiveness (including productivity, innovation, transportation and subcontracting) 4.      Markets & Marketing 5.      Capital

Cluster Definition   An industry is the most specific component representing “a group of establishments that produce similar products or provide similar services   An industry sector is a group of firms sharing some commonality, which may be the product, the inputs or the skill sets of employees   Industry clusters are “geographical concentrations of industries that gain performance advantages through co-location”