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Atlantic Canada

Institute for Ocean Research Enterprise to scale to the world in all of those sectors. So while we are How does Atlantic Canada cumulatively stack up versus small and well connected, yet Atlantic Canada is represented other subsea clusters around the world?

well in all of those key ocean clusters. You can go to any of the world’s leading exhibitions and conferences and you will see I know most about the New England cluster because I lived an overweight by numbers in the presence of Atlantic Canada and worked there. I would say compared to that cluster, Atlan- companies, and that is not accidental. There are a large num- tic Canada is smaller (in terms of GDP, employment, number ber of those companies in our region and they are all focused of companies, etc.) but not that much smaller. The problem on international commerce and export orientated. in comparing our cluster to the European and Asian clusters is that they are structurally different than the North American models. They are much more government-led than the Ameri-

So what do you see as their greatest weakness?

can and Canadian groups, so it is really a big challenge to

There can be rivalry amongst the different provinces and cit- compare the different clusters around the world under differ- ies, and frankly (to effectively grow the cumulative business ing political systems. The U.S. and Canadians have a lot of to global scale) we need to work more effectively together. similarities, and looking at the U.S. you have the clusters in

Also, there needs to be a focus on the markets that are scal- San Diego and New England, as well as the Paci