(WatertownDailyTimes) - There is a promising trend in economic development in Northern New York, and it tastes great. After years of trying to create industry clusters around papermaking or other manufacturing operations, our local winery industry appears to be developing as a classic industrial cluster. This is some of the best news we have had on several fronts in many years. The idea of an industrial cluster as economic development strategy was first described by Michael Porter, a professor at Harvard University, and has been used to explain the success of clusters such as Silicon Valley in California or the film industry in Hollywood.