Microeconomics of Competitiveness | The Shale Gas Cluster in Pennsylvania, USA
This project, undertaken under the supervision of the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness at Harvard Business School, led by Michael E. Porter, explores the determinants of the US shale gas cluster's competitiveness and successful economic development viewed from a bottom-up, microeconomic perspective. It aims at representing the concept of shale gas and how it is currently shaping up towards clustering.
While sound macroeconomic policies, stable legal and political institutions, and improving social conditions create the potential for competitiveness, wealth is actually created at the microeconomic level.The sophistication and productivity of firms, the vitality of the shale gas industry, and the quality of its business e