edited by david wolfe
The series on Innovation, Creativity, and Governance in Canadian City-Regions presents the research results of a six-year, sixteen city study of the social dynamics of innovation, creativity and civic governance in Canadian cities. The first three volumes in the series provide detailed analyses of each of the three research themes carried out in across a selection of large, medium and small Canadian cities, and the fourth one integrates the key findings across all themes for the individual cases.
Professor David Wolfe of the Munk School of Global Affairs is the editor of the first volume, Innovating in Urban Economies.
While the cases covered are primarily Canadian, the volumes present the material in an international and comparative context that addresses ongoing intellectual and policy debates concerning urban economic development and civic governance. As such, the series offers important new insights that contribute to our contemporary understanding of the relationship between urban social dynamics and economic performance.
about the editor
David A. Wolfe is Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto Mississauga and Director of the Program on Globalization and Regional Innovation Systems (PROGRIS) at the Munk School for Global Affairs. In July, 2009 he was named the Royal Bank Chair in Public and Economic Policy at the University of Toronto. His research interests include the political economy of technological change and the role of local and regional economic development, with special reference to Canada and Ontario. PROGRIS has been the national secretariat for the Innovation Systems Research Network (ISRN), funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. He is National Coordinator of the ISRN and was principal investigator on two Major Collaborative Research Initiatives, the first on Innovation Systems and Economic Development: The Role of Local and Regional Clusters in Canada and currently on the Social Dynamics of Economic Performance: Innovation and Creativity in City Regions which runs from 2006 to 2011. He is the editor or co-editor of ten books and numerous scholarly articles.
