Do large firms stimulate entrepreneurship by diffusing knowledge or suppress it by bidding up the price of labor and real estate? In this recently published article, Lorena Camargo and I argue that they do both, posing a dilemma for smaller communities

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Having shifted from the study of small states like Finland to small cities like Waterloo, Ontario, I appreciated this opportunity to reflect on the similarities between these different types of communities on the ICF podcast

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Righteous Demagogues is out today Oxford Academic! It's available at global.oup.com/academic/produ…, including as an e-book. || There are dozens of books about populism out there. So why read this one? 🧵...

Opinion: As the federal government dithers, Canada’s technology sector languishes /via The Globe and Mail theglobeandmail.com/business/comme…

The February 2024 issue (Volume 61, Issue 3) of #UrbanStudies is out now featuring papers and reviews by Tooran Alizadeh | توران علیزاده Quentin Ramond Zoe Hamstead Bego Aramayona Valeria Guarneros Darius Ornston David A Wolfe Luisa Melo ammar azzouz 📿 عمّار عزّوز Saba Ameer (sabine) and many more
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I’m very happy that my article about fostering cooperation in production, which draws on one of my favourite EU policies, has found a home in NPE journal. (1/…)
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My new book is finally out! Travel back to the Gilded Age—why did some presidents crash and burn, while others prospered? You'll find a lot of surprising analogies for us today. Put me on your reading list!
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We know that economic opportunity has become increasingly place-based. Read my 📢new paper 📢w/Michael Storper, uncovering new ways of thinking about spatial income inequality in the US between 1940 and 2019, out today in Economic Geography.

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Some tl;dr 👇

How do latecomers enter high-technology markets? In three very different ways. Darius Ornston Tijs Creutzberg and David A Wolfe describe how Toronto, Ottawa, and Waterloo carved out different niches as super connectors, specialists, and scrappers
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New #OpenAccess article from Tijs Creutzberg, Darius Ornston, and David A Wolfe uses three cities from the same Canadian province, Toronto, Ottawa, and Waterloo, to examine how regions compete in high-technology markets.
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#governance #innovation

New #OpenAccess paper by Tijs Creutzberg, Darius Darius Ornston and David A Wolfe (@Progris): 'Super connectors, specialists, and scrappers: How cities use civic capital to compete in high-technology markets'
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Check out my new paper on #civicapital and #localeconomicdevelopment with Darius Ornston and Tijs Creutzberg: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…