Innovating in Urban Economies : : Economic Transformation in Canadian City-Regions /

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
MitwirkendeR:
Bathelt, Harald,
Bourgeois, Yves,
Bradford, Neil,
Cooke, Philip,
Dallaire, Rosemarie,
Davis, Charles H.,
Gosselin, Pierre-Marc,
Grant, Jill L.,
Holbrook, J. Adam,
Klein, Juan-Luis,
Langford, Cooper H.,
Li, Ben,
Mills, Nicholas,
Munro, Andrew,
Nelles, Jen,
Phillips, Peter W.B.,
Ryan, Cami,
Spencer, Gregory M.,
Tremblay, Diane-Gabrielle,
Trépanier, Michel,
Warrian, Peter,
Webb, Graeme,
Wixted, Brian,
Wolfe, David A.,
HerausgeberIn:
Wolfe, David A.,
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

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