The Regional Innovation Clusters
initiative provides entrepreneurial development services to small
and emerging businesses in specific industries fostering job growth
and regional economic development. These surveys will gather
information from administrators,clients and other stakeholders who
participate in the industry cluster and its programs . SBA will use
the data to compare the economic outcomes of the businesses to
non-participants and document the initiative's effect and client
satisfaction in a public report.
The number of participants and
respondents has increased to 1,537.
$276,661
No
No
No
No
No
No
Uncollected
Brittany Borg 202 401-1354
brittany.borg@sba,gov
No
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