Innovating in Urban Economies : : Economic Transformation in Canadian City-Regions / / ed. by David A. Wolfe.
In a globalizing, knowledge-based economy, innovation and creative capacity lead to economic prosperity. Starting in 2006, the Innovation Systems Research Network began a six year-long study on how city-regions in Canada were surviving and thriving in a globalized world. That study resulted in the &...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018] ©2014 |
Year of Publication: | 2018 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Innovation, Creativity, and Governance in Canadian City-Regions
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (392 p.) :; 11 Figures |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Tables
- Figures
- Foreword to the Series
- Acknowledgments
- PART I. Dynamics of Innovation in City-Regions - Diversity, Specialization, and Variety
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Systems of Innovation and Contexts of Creativity: An Assessment of the Knowledge Bases of Canadian City-Regions
- PART II. Diversity, Variety, and the Cognitive- Cultural Economy in Large Cities
- 3. Innovation and Toronto's Cognitive-Cultural Economy
- 4. Living on the Edge: Knowledge Interdependencies of Human Capital Intensive Clusters in Vancouver
- 5. Innovation and Social Actors in Montreal: Intersectoral Challenges of Place-Based Dynamics
- 6. Firms and Their Problems: Systemic Innovation and Related Diversity in Calgary
- PART III. The Specialized Characteristics of Innovation in Medium-Sized Cities
- 7. Innovation in an Ordinary City: Knowledge Flows in London, Ontario
- 8. Biotech and Lunch Buckets: The Curious Knowledge Networks of Steel Town
- 9. Innovation Linkages in New- and Old- Economy Sectors in Cambridge-Guelph- Kitchener-Waterloo (Ontario)
- 10. Knowledge Flows in the Consulting, Advertising/Design, and Music Sectors in Halifax
- PART IV. Innovation for Survival or Growth in Canada's Small Cities
- 11. Social Dynamics, Diversity, and Physical Infrastructure in Creative, Innovative Communities: The Saskatoon Case
- 12. How ICTs and Face-to-face Interactions Mediate Knowledge Flows in Moncton
- 13. Networking Patterns and Performance of the Trois-Rivières City-Region's Firms in the Light of Sectoral and Place Characteristics
- PART V. The Global Challenge for Innovation in Canadian City-Regions
- 14. Related Variety, Knowledge Platforms, and the Challenge for Cities and Regions in the Global Economy
- Contributors