Silicon Valley North: A High-Tech Cluster of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Technology, Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Competitive Strategy) (Technology, ... Entrepreneurship and Competitive Strategy) PDF
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SILICON VALLEY NORTH A HIGH-TECH CLUSTER OF INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP TECHNOLOGY,INNOVATION,ENTREPRENEURSHIPANDCOMPETITIVE STRATEGYSERIES SeriesEditors:JohnMcGeeandHowardThomas Published STEFFENS Newgames—StrategicCompetitioninthePCRevolution BULL,THOMAS&WILLARD Entrepreneurship:PerspectivesonTheoryBuilding SANCHEZ,HEENE&THOMAS DynamicsofCompetence-BasedCompetition DAI CorporateStrategy,PublicPolicyandNewTechnologies BOGNER DrugstoMarket SUSMAN&O’KEEFE TheDefenseIndustryinthePost-ColdWarEra NORDBERG TheStrategicManagementofHighTechnologyContracts:TheCaseofCERN SCHULZ&HOFER CreatingValuewithEntrepreneurialLeadershipandSkill-BasedStrategies Forthcomingtitle PORAC&VENTRESCA ConstructingIndustriesandMarkets Othertitlesofinterest DURING,OAKEY&KAUSER NewTechnology-BasedFirmsintheNewMillennium,VolumeIII HOSNI ManagementofTechnology:InternetEconomy KATZ AdvancesinEntrepreneurship,FirmEmergenceandGrowth,Volume7:CorporateEntrepreneurship LIBECAP AdvancesintheStudyofEntrepreneurship,InnovationandEconomicGrowth,Volume15:Intellectual PropertyandEntrepreneurship Relatedjournals—samplecopiesavailableonlineatwww.sciencedirect.com JournalofBusinessVenturing JournalofEngineeringandTechnologyManagement JournalofHighTechnologyManagementResearch TechnologicalForecastingandSocialChange Technovation SILICON VALLEY NORTH A HIGH-TECH CLUSTER OF INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDITED BY LARISA V. 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BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData AcataloguerecordisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. ISBN:0-08-044457-1 ISSN:1479-067X(Series) (cid:2)∞ThepaperusedinthispublicationmeetstherequirementsofANSI/NISOZ39.48-1992(PermanenceofPaper).Printed inTheNetherlands. ToEvgueniandAlexander This Page Intentionally Left Blank Contents AbouttheAuthors ix Preface xv PartI:Introduction 1. SiliconPhenomenon:IntroductiontoSomeImportantIssues 3 LarisaV.Shavinina 2. SiliconValleyNorth:TheFormationoftheOttawaInnovationCluster 21 JocelynGhentMallett 3. Yesterday’sAdventureswithToday’sTechnology:CarletonUniversity’s WiredCitySimulationLaboratory 33 DavidC.Coll PartII:SiliconValleyNorth:ItsRecentPast,CurrentState,andFuture 4. FirmDemographicsinSiliconValleyNorth 57 FrançoisBrouard,TylerChamberlin,JérômeDoutriauxandJohndelaMothe 5. ATaleofOneCity:TheOttawaTechnologyCluster 85 JudithJ.Madill,GeorgeH.HainesJr.andAllanL.Riding 6. TheNationalCapitalRegion’sProductLeadershipCluster 119 AntonioJ.Bailetti 7. HowTechnology-IntensiveClustersareOrganizedintheOttawaRegion 143 AlanO’Sullivan 8. TheRoleofVentureCapitalinBuildingTechnologyCompanies intheOttawaRegion 167 JohnCallahanandKenCharbonneau viii Contents 9. TheRoleofUniversitiesinDevelopingCanadianSiliconValley 203 RobertE.Armit 10. TheRiverRunsThroughIt:TheCaseforCollaborativeGovernancein theNationalCapitalRegion 223 GillesPaquet,JeffreyRoyandChrisWilson 11. TechnologicalDevelopmentinGatineau,theQuebecSectorof SiliconValleyNorth 241 FrancoMaterazzi 12. DevelopingKnowledgeWorkersinSiliconValleyNorth:ItIsNot JustAboutTraining 251 LorraineDyke,LindaDuxburyandNatalieLam 13. CanTechnologyClustersDeliverSustainableLivelihoods?Constructing aRoleforCommunityEconomicDevelopment 275 EdwardT.JacksonandRahilKhan 14. AnInnovativeModelforSkillDevelopmentin SiliconValleyNorth:O-Vitesse 293 ArvindChhatbar 15. Ottawa’sTalentWorks—RegionalLearningandCollaborativeGovernance foraKnowledgeAge 311 GillesPaquet,JeffreyRoyandChrisWilson PartIII:Conclusion 16. TheLusterofClusters:ACautionaryTale 333 WarrenThorngate SubjectIndex 341 About the Authors RobertArmitisaprofessionaleconomistandconsultantinTechnologyBusinessDevel- opment.Priortoestablishinghisconsultancyin1998,RobertArmitservedasDirectorof theTechnologyTransferCentreatOCRIinOttawaandasDirectorofTechnologyTransfer atboththeUniversityofAlbertainEdmontonandCarletonUniversityinOttawa.Whileat Carleton,forthreeyearsheservedlaterallyasVice-President(Technology)oftheCarleton University Development Corporation where he developed the concept for the technology initiativeatthebaseoftheCarletonTechnologyandTrainingCentre.RobertArmitwasa memberoftheBoardofDirectorsoftheAssociationofUniversityRelatedResearchParksin theUSAandwasSecretary-TreasureroftheCanadianResearchManagementAssociation. Antonio J. Bailetti holds a faculty appointment in both the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering and in the Eric Sprott School of Business at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. Professor Bailetti has been the Director of the M.Eng. in Telecommu- nicationsTechnologyManagementprogramsince1998.HewastheDirectorofCarleton University’s School of Business from 1981 to 1988 and a Director at Bell-Northern Research(todayapartofNortelNetworks)from1988to1992.ProfessorBailetti’swork has been published in engineering management journals such as IEEE Transactions on EngineeringManagement,JournalofProductInnovationManagement,ResearchPolicy, andR&DManagement. Franc¸oisBrouardisafacultymemberintheEricSprottSchoolofBusinessatCarleton University in Ottawa, Canada, where he teaches Accounting and Taxation. A Chartered Accountant,Franc¸oisearnedadoctorateinbusinessadministration(DBA)fromUniversite´ du Que´bec a` Trois-Rivie`res. He develops a diagnostic tool for environmental scanning practicesinsmallandmedium-sizedenterprises(SME). John Callahan is cross-appointed in both the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering and the Sprott School of Business at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. He teaches graduate courses and supervises graduate research in telecommunications and product development management in Engineering, and in R&D management in the Sprott School of Business. He has published in journals such as Management Science, ResearchPolicy,IEEETransactionsonEngineeringManagement,TechnovationandR&D Management.ProfessorCallahangraduatedfromCarletonUniversitywithaB.Sc.(Hon) inMathematicsandPhysics.HethendidanMAinAppliedMathematicsandaPh.D.in IndustrialEngineeringattheUniversityofToronto.
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