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MontrealTechWatch
MontrealTechWatch is dedicated to innovation and technology in Montreal. It aims to connect Montreal to all the major hubs of innovation and leverages these networks to create value for local talent.
New Tech City
This study provides a comprehensive examination of New York’s fast-growing tech sector, focusing on the companies in the city that are enabled by the rapid evolution of the Internet and mobile platforms. As the accompanying New Tech City report, the NYC Digital Startup Index provides a new level of detail about the explosion of digital start-ups founded in New York City over the past five years.
New Engines of Growth. Five Roles for Arts, Culture and Design
This report focuses on the role that arts, culture, and design can play in assisting states as they seek to create jobs and boost their economies in the short run and transition to an innovation based economy in the long run.
The importance of manufacturing in economic development: Past, present and future perspectives
This paper discusses the past and present roles of the manufacturing sector in structural change and analyses new challenges facing industrial policy. New challenges discussed in the paper include: (i) integration into global value chains, (ii) the shrinking of policy space in the present international order, (iii) the rise of the Asian driver economies, (iv) new opportunities provided by resource-based industrialization, (v) the accelerating pace of technological change in manufacturing, (vi) how to deal with jobless growth in manufacturing, (vii) creating adequate systems of financial intermediation, and (viii) how to respond to the threats of global warming and climate change.
The Knowledge Multiplier
The purpose of this paper is to contribute to understanding the role of external knowledge and social interactions in the generation of new technological knowledge and the dynamics of innovation systems.
Local Multipliers and Human Capital in the US and Sweden
The authors of this paper show that every time a local economy generates a new job by attracting a new business in the traded sector, a significant number of additional jobs are created in the non-traded sector. This multiplier effect is particularly large for jobs with high levels of human capital and for high tech industries. These findings are important for local development policies, as they suggest that in order to increase local employment levels, municipalities should target high tech employers with high levels of human capital.
Strategies of Innovation. A framework for accelerating the Province of New Brunswick
The innovation working group that examined ways to foster and accelerate innovation in the province presented its report to Premier David Alward recently in Fredericton. The report, Strategies for Innovation, outlines 38 recommendations with a goal of transforming the region and building a culture of innovation in the province. The strategy objectives outlined in the report can be summarized into five categories: 1) innovate government; 2) make New Brunswick a better place in which to start and grow a business; 3) change the mindset of New Brunswickers to be innovative thinkers rather than passive learners; 4) build an innovation ecosystem that supports access to ideas, people and capital; and 5) improve local, regional, national and international collaboration between industry, academia and government.
Europe Innova 2012. Stress Test of Innovation Policy in Europe
This event will take place in Copenhagen on October 23-24, 2012. Experts will focus on three central themes within the innovation policy: SME innovation support schemes, Commercial exploitation of knowledge, IP and inventions, and Networks and cluster policies.
World Innovation Forum New York 2012
The World Innovation Forum returns to New York City to bring together a whole new group of experts and practitioners who are shaping the way we do business. The event will be held on June 20-21, 2012.
Warehouse for Innovation support
The Warehouse for innovation support is the TAKE IT UP’s showcase-facility of services and tools developed under the Europe INNOVA partnerships to accelerate the growth of Knowledge Intensive Companies and Start-ups willing to innovate. It's a navigable map of exploitable tools and services structured along the innovation support value chain.
