Julio Jose Prado, Ph.D., a cluster expert came to Purdue in 2017 to learn Strategic Doing. “We know a lot about what clusters are, but Strategic Doing provides the only method for how to develop clusters,” according to Julio. .He returned to Ecuador and deployed Strategic Doing in the banking sector. When he was appointed as Minister of Production and Trade in Ecuador, he created the platform to deploy Strategic Doing across 22 clusters in Ecuador.