25 October 2023
The Cluster Muster
We were incredibly excited to welcome local engineering and manufacturing businesses, support agencies and service businesses to The Cluster Muster last night to officially launch Southland’s Engineering (and Manufacturing) Cluster.
We’ve all heard of famous innovation clusters – technology in Silicon Valley, arts and entertainment in Hollywood, finance on Wall Street and in the City of London, country music in Nashville, automobiles in Detroit, and wine in Marlborough.
Our opportunity is to develop a cluster with engineering and manufacturing service-related businesses that will:
- Purposefully build on Southland’s specialised engineering and services capability that has been built around NZAS, and also underpins our agriculture and food manufacturing sectors
- Develop an environment built on openness, with collaborative projects that make a real difference to adding value and strengthen our competitive advantage
- Identify and support businesses aspiring to grow in NZ and beyond, grounding them in Southland
- Provide easier access to new business opportunities in emerging industries which would be further amplified through establishment of other regional clusters.
To learn more click here.
