Agree with your comment...focus and alignment on opportunities in response to customer needs will be critical to the establishment and viability of an effective supercluster, and the ability to forge strong relationships across the value chain is key.   Proximity enables these relationships, which is critical to the integration and collaboration you refer to.   I hope the "kingmakers" do not succumb to the temptation to 'regionally distribute' or 'broaden' the best proposals to make them somehow more politically palatable....this is the typical Canadian government approach which has doomed earlier innovation initiatives.