RENEWAL AND REINVENTION OF ALBERTA’S HYDROCARBON CLUSTER - LEARNING FROM THE PAST

The Energy Futures Policy Collaborative is a new and exciting initiative developed by the Max Bell Foundation and the Energy Futures Lab to explore how Alberta and Canada can harness its existing hydrocarbon resources, assets, and expertise to build the clean economy of the future. [...] Several educational life cycle of clusters and the vast variety of factors that institutions in Alberta offer programs which are tailored can drive cluster development and evolution, the paper to hydrocarbon extraction and processing, notably then explores the literature to identify past sustainment- the University of Alberta, the University of Calgary, the >renewal->growth transitions. [...] In the 1990s, provincial transmission of ideas, the development of a pool government institutions were instrumental to organizing of specialized labour, and the emergence of and financing the development and demonstration of support firms. [...] is that the biogas cluster renewal did not involve the RENEWAL AND REINVENTION OF ALBERTA’S HYDROCARBON CLUSTER | 15 Policy Brief | December 2021 presence of a research centre nor the establishment of The renewal of the forest industry in Northern a network that encouraged the widespread use of new Sweden technology and knowledge. [...] Through strategic R&D and innovation investments, Factors endogenous to the cluster are likely to be more the Biorefinery of the Future initiative motivates firms relevant when the use of technologies by firms in the to engage in collaborations across industries, which cluster has the potential to lead to innovative activities.