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Title: Perspectives on Ottawa’s High-tech Sector

Perspectives on Ottawa’s High-tech Sector

by Nick Novakowski (Volume editor) Rémy Tremblay (Volume editor)
©2007 Edited Collection 274 Pages
Science, Society & Culture
Series: Études canadiennes – Canadian Studies, Volume 13

Summary

Canada’s capital – Ottawa – is earning a reputation as a global technology centre that offers a dynamic mix of economic, cultural, educational and recreational opportunities. It is an advanced technology centre, particularly known for its research and development in the fields of telecommunications, technology services, software development, defence and security, microelectronics/wireless and photonics. Readers can see innovation and the elements of the New Economy revealed by the different authors detailing different accounts and analyses of the Ottawa area.
The book is organised into four themes: 1. Ottawa: A Knowledge City?, 2. Planning the Cluster: By Decision, By Design or By Destiny?, 3. ‘Growing’ the Cluster: Idea Farming and Innovation Strategies for Economic Development, and 4. The Unique Ottawa Cluster: Regional, Bilingual and Cosmopolitan.

Details

Pages
274
Year
2007
ISBN (Softcover)
9789052013701
Language
English
Keywords
Knowledge city Ottawa Wirtschaftsentwicklung Spitzentechnologie Cluster (Wirtschaft) Aufsatzsammlung Ottawa's high-tech sector
Published
Bruxelles, Bern, Berlin, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2007. 274 pp., 13 ill.

Biographical notes

Nick Novakowski (Volume editor) Rémy Tremblay (Volume editor)

The Editors: Nick Novakowski, MCIP, is an urban geographer and urban planner at Grenfell College, Memorial University of Newfoundland. His research interests include knowledge cities, Chinese urbanisation, and environmental planning. His consulting specialty involves Chinese urban development. Since June 2005, Rémy Tremblay has been a professor at Téléuniversité (UQAM’s distance learning university). He holds currently a Canada Research Chair on Knowledge Cities and is director of the Équipe de recherche sur les villes du savoir (ERVS-research team on knowledge cities), a laboratory funded by the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI). He is also co-editor (in French) of the Canadian Journal of Regional Science.

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