Additional examples further illustrate the benefit of this tool. What if Martin County has a strong electrical equipment manufacturing sector? Development professionals in that community would likely benefit from knowing how connected the individual firms in the cluster actually are and whether some firms have access to specialized equipment that could be shared more widely? In another example, Milwaukee manufacturers within the water technology cluster, who were asking similar questions among themselves, discovered that they had sophisticated laboratory facilities that could be more widely shared within the region to mutual benefit. .
