Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. I Dynamics of Innovation in City-Regions
  • Diversity, Specialization, and Variety
  • 1. Introduction / David A. Wolfe
  • 2. Systems of Innovation and Contexts of Creativity: An Assessment of the Knowledge Bases of Canadian City-Regions / Gregory M. Spencer
  • pt. II Diversity, Variety, and the Cognitive-Cultural Economy in Large Cities
  • 3. Innovation and Toronto's Cognitive-Cultural Economy / Nicholas Mills
  • 4. Living on the Edge: Knowledge Interdependencies of Human Capital Intensive Clusters in Vancouver / J. Adam Holbrook
  • 5. Innovation and Social Actors in Montreal: Intersectoral Challenges of Place-Based Dynamics / Juan-Luis Klein
  • 6. Firms and Their Problems: Systemic Innovation and Related Diversity in Calgary / Cami Ryan
  • pt. III The Specialized Characteristics of Innovation in Medium-Sized Cities
  • 7. Innovation in an Ordinary City: Knowledge Flows in London, Ontario / Jen Nelles.
  • 8. Biotech and Lunch Buckets: The Curious Knowledge Networks of Steel Town / Peter Warrian
  • 9. Innovation Linkages in New- and Old-Economy Sectors in Cambridge-Guelph-Kitchener-Waterloo (Ontario) / Harald Bathelt
  • 10. Knowledge Flows in the Consulting, Advertising/Design, and Music Sectors in Halifax / Jill L. Grant
  • pt. 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 / Graeme Webb
  • 12. How ICTs and Face-to-face Interactions Mediate Knowledge Flows in Moncton / Yves Bourgeois
  • 13.Networking Patterns and Performance of the Trois-Rivieres City-Region's Firms in the Light of Sectoral and Place Characteristics / Rosemarie Dallaire
  • pt. 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 / Philip Cooke.