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Competing on Creativity: Placing Ontario's Cities in North American Context (Research Report)
Meric Gertler, Gary Gates, Richard Florida, Tara Vinodrai

Creativity is crucial to economic growth. Regions must develop, attract and retain creative people who generate innovations, develop technology-intensive industries and power economic growth. Creative people concentrate within particular city-regions with a social environment open to creativity and diversity. The ability to attract creative people and to be open to a diverse population provides advantages to regions in generating innovations, growing and attracting high-technology industries, and spurring economic growth. This report examines the relationship between talent, technology, creativity and diversity in city-regions in Ontario—and Canada more generally—and compares these to relationships found to exist in American metropolitan regions.

Posted to Web: November 01, 2002Publication Date: November 01, 2002

 

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