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INTERREGIONAL COLLABORATION AND INNOVATION IN VANCOUVER'S EMERGING HIGH‐TECH CLUSTER

Kevin Rees

Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, 2005, vol. 96, issue 3, 298-312

Abstract: Much has been written recently about high‐tech clusters and the benefits of local collaboration, supported by evidence from successful high‐tech regions. Research on historically low‐tech regions distant from high‐tech heartlands is limited, although such lagging regions are often advised to promote clustering and local collaboration in order to become more innovative. This paper examines the recent emergence of a high‐tech cluster in Greater Vancouver, an historically low‐tech city‐region peripheral from the major technological heartlands. Through an investigation of the medical biotechnology and telecommunications hardware industries, this paper explores the role and geography of collaboration by local firms at the research, development and manufacturing stages of the innovation process. Indepth research reveals that interregional collaboration provides firms with vital access to basic research, production expertise and finances that are locally scarce. Most collaborative links are found to be national or international rather than local, although considerable variation is evident between the two industries.

Date: 2005
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