ERLN Spotlight: DTI Chief Director: Regional Industrial Clusters
In the welcome to the Economies of Regions Conference, Deputy Minister of Finance, Mcebisi Jonas, emphasized the importance of industrial clusters and industrial cluster formation as being especially critical to regional economic development initiatives. Stieneke Samuels is Chief Director: Regional Industrial Clusters at the Department of Trade and Industry. Stieneke is also an Advisory Group member of the ERLN and is very active in utilising the ERLN platform to engage about cluster development. ERLN Convenor, Kirsten Pearson, puts Stieneke Samuels in the spotlight to discover more about how the dti is working to support cluster development.