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

✍ Scribed by David A. Wolfe (editor)

• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 392
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

With case studies examining cities of all sizes, from Toronto to Moncton, Innovating in Urban Economies analyzes the impact of size, location, and the regional economy on innovation and knowledge in Canada’s cities

✦ Table of Contents

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