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Aligned with global trends in post-industrialization, the economy of Metro Vancouver is changing, but along its own trajectory. The focus is shifting away from resource-based activities to local entrepreneurial initiatives across a remarkable range of industries, from software to craft beer, biopharmaceuticals to mountain bikes. This evolution is being shaped by local business and the city's location on the national and global periphery.
The Thin Edge of Innovation focusses on the performance of signature businesses in these entrepreneurial sectors to grow and foster industrial clusters and integrate with the global economy. The contributors give a mixed report card to this economic transition. Within Metro Vancouver, innovation has stimulated economic diversification and promises to deliver high-income jobs. But this diversification has also been thinly spread and lacks deep local roots or dominant anchor companies.
This constructive study examines the distinctive opportunities facing Metro Vancouver. Despite challenges, it reveals a region with undoubted potential for sustained, broadly beneficial local development
Contents
Introduction: Metro Vancouver's Economy Post-industrial Transformation Towards an Innovation Economy
1 Rethinking Forestry's Role Towards Value and Innovation
2 Metro Vancouver High-Tech Firms in Arrested Transition?
3 The Influence of FDI in Metro Vancouver High Tech
4 Inter-firm Relations Among High-tech Activities: Local Clustering and Global Connections
5 Deepening Institutional Support for Metro Vancouver High-tech
6 Lifestyle Innovators, West-coast Style
7 Metro Vancouver on the Thin Edge of Innovation, and Associated Conundrums
Appendix 1: Locally-Founded "Transitioning" Firms in Metro Vancouver High-tech to circa 2019
Appendix 2: Foreign Firms in Metro Vancouver's High-tech Sector 1980-2019
Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index
