Clusters

Small, growing and start-up companies leverage the benefits of the Western Massachusetts region to expand, grow and thrive. Low real estate costs, business incubators and an abundance of small business resources make the region an attractive place to begin a business.

In Massachusetts, the creative industries include the many interlocking industry sectors that provide creative services or create and promote intellectual property products. The businesses (for-profit), organizations (not-for-profit) and individuals (sole proprietors) can be divided into the many categories that make up the Creative Economy Network.

Many of Western Massachusetts’s precision manufacturing companies are contracted suppliers of precision mechanical components and sub-assemblies to major commercial manufacturers, aircraft engine builders, and military equipment contractors across the United States and internationally.