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Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society Advance Access published online on October 29, 2009
Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, doi:10.1093/cjres/rsp027
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This article appears in the following Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society issue: The Resilient Region [View the issue table of contents]

Pittsburgh's evolving steel legacy and the steel technology cluster

Carey Durkin Treado

Center for Industry Studies and Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh, 3601 WW Posvar Hall, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA. ctreado{at}pitt.edu


  Abstract

Using an industry studies approach, this article provides an assessment of a cluster of product and service providers that have leveraged regional expertise in a declining industry (steel) to continue to supply technology to a global industry. The formation of Pittsburgh's steel technology cluster has depended on three main regional factors: location, labour and legacy. In particular, Pittsburgh's expertise and long tradition in metallurgy and materials science has been the ultimate source of the cluster's success and the region's resilience. The results of this research have practical and theoretical implications for regional economic development policy and its relationship to path dependence.

Keywords: regional resilience, path dependence, steel technology, cluster

Received on May 26, 2009. Accepted on September 16, 2009.

JEL classifications: L61, R12, R58


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