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Innovating Canada: Resilient Cities with Richard Florida

Communities with more resilient economies experience less shock. And economies that are both resilient and high-growth experience shorter recovery periods. This pandemic has provided us with an opportunity to take measure of our regional and city economies and to better understand the fundamental drivers. A key to our future resiliency is the continued growth and development of diverse, export-driven economies across Canada. Surprisingly, some clusters across Canada have an opportunity for expansion during this time — transportation, e-commerce, and health sciences — while others will need support. Economic development officials across Canada must assess the sectors that are most vulnerable in the short to medium run, evaluate the impacts this will have for their labour markets and communities, and plan accordingly to make their economies more resilient and robust.

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July 13, 2020
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Design for a High Performance Manufacturing Infrastructure

In January 1992, Carnegie Mellon University undertook a project, in collaboration with the Technology Development and Education Corporation, called “Design for High Performance Manufacturing Infrastructure”. The objective of the project was to analyze and invigorate the supplier base and manufacturing infrastructure of Southwestern Pennsylvania…

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January 10, 2008
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Venture Capital and Industrial Competitiveness

What is the role of venture capital in industrial competitiveness? On the one hand, venture capital has played a crucial role in the emergence of innovative entrepreneurial enterprises and high-technology regions such as Silicon Valley and Boston’s Route 128 corridor. On the other hand, a number of commentators have suggested that venture capital contributes to a pattern of chronic entrepreneurship and the breakthrough illusion of U.S. high technology which have a negative implications for U.S. technological and industrial competitiveness.

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January 10, 2008
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The World & I – America’s Breakthrough Illusion

Wherever one looks -in semiconductors, computers or biotechnology- the story is the same: The United States achieves a commanding lead in basic research, develops the start-up companies that pioneer cutting edge technologies, and then somehow fails to follow trough, leaving nations like Japan to mass-produce the products that the world wants.

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January 10, 2008
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Japanese Direct Investment

The research upon which this chapter is based was undertaken in three parts. The first part involved the compilation of a comprehensive database of transplant assemblers and suppliers in the US…

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January 10, 2008
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High-technology restructuring in the USA and Japan

In this paper, the comparative responses of the USA and Japan to the rise of the new high-technology industries are examined. The United States pattern mainly revolves around the rise of high-technology districts like Silicon Valley and Route 128 which comprise dense networks of small entrepreneurial firms and other related institutions.

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January 10, 2008
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The Future of Industrialization

Capitalism is undergoing an epochal transformation from a mas-production system where the principal source of value was physical labour to a new era of innovation-mediated production where the principal component of value creation, productivity and economic growth is knowledge and intellectual capabilities.

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January 10, 2008