===Regional Cluster Policy===
Regional cluster policy targets startups to encourage and assist the formation and growth of the companies. These policies do this by typically instigating the transfer of knowledge across numerous organizational boundaries. Often these boundaries are organized in a manner where opportunities for startup companies, universities, and firms overall are optimized.
'''REWORD''' "Broadly, regional cluster policy levers *Silicon Valley - Several computer technology companies emerged in this part of California in the late 1990s. This led to an abundance of opportunities for entrepreneurs to form their own startup companies. This exponential increase in startups subsequently led to numerous venture capital firms moving to encourage start-up formation Silicon Valley. More and more startups and growth typically aim VC firms continued to spur knowledge transfer across various organizational boundariesmove into Silicon Valley, whether it be creating the innovative "cluster" in the area. With the help of nearby research institutions and universities, incumbent firmsparticularly Stanford University and the University of California at Berkeley, or other start-upsSilicon Valley blossomed into one of the premiere innovative concentrations in the world."
*Silicon Valley *Boston's Route 128-
*Research Triangle Park