Papers & presentations

CDO PARTNERSHIP NETWORK CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS, TORONTO (APRIL 29-MAY 1)

• Beaudry, Catherine (with Stéphane Dauphin-Pierre) – Impacts of ICT’s research intermediaries on Quebec’s innovation ecosystem: final results  
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• Beaudry, Catherine (with Georges Hage and Pierre Therrien) – Adoption of digital and advanced technologies in Canada
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• Brail, Shauna – Ride-Hailing: Global Economic Geography & Canada’s Opportunity
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• Bramwell, Allison – Digital Underdogs: Economic Opportunity and the ‘Ordinary’ City 
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• Breznitz, Dan (with Steven Samford) – Creating Digital Opportunity: MNEs, Enclaves and Innovation Agencies
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• Breznitz, Shiri (with Doug Noonan) – The Digital Media Industry in Canada through Crowdfunding
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• Coates, Ken – Rural and Remote Regions: The Wrong Side of the Digital Divide?
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• Cohendet, Patrick (with David Grandadam) – Building Innovation Ecosystems in Cities and Regions: People, capital, knowledge, and the local commons
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• Crelinsten, Jeff – Accelerators and Incubators as a Tool in Innovation Policy
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• Creutzberg, Tijs (with Brendan Haley, Todd Julie) – Luck, Legacy and Local Leadership: Transitioning to New Digital Opportunities in Ottawa
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• Davis, Charles  – The Canadian creative/cultural sector and the digital shift: Cultural citizenship, from cultural sovereignty to consumer sovereignty
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• Denney, Steven  (with Travis Southin and David Wolfe) – Entrepreneurs, Scale-ups and the Evolution of Toronto’s ICT Cluster: Insights and Lessons Learned
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• Doloreux, David – Conditions for Innovation in KIBS: evidence from small KIBS firms in Ontario
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• Donald, Betsy – Creating Digital Opportunity: Digital Ride-hailing in Canada
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• Goodman, Nicole (with Zachary Spicer) – CDO Summary: Smart Cities Component
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• Goracinova, Elena (with David Wolfe) – Canada’s Automotive Cluster: Its Future in the Digital Age
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• Gosine, Ray (with Peter Warrian) – CDO Extractive Industries
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• Holbrook, Adam (with Ben Anderson et al ) – The Digital Ecosystem in Vancouver 
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• Holroyd, Carin – Filling the Digital Pipelines: Government Policies and the Expansion of the Digital Content Economy
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• Horton, Deanna – Where You Are, What You Are: Mapping Canadian Tech Companies in International Markets
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• Jeffs, Jennifer (with Meredith Williams) – Fintech Innovation
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• Ornston, Darius – Creating Digital Opportunity in Waterloo
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• Phillips, Peter (with Brian Wixted) – The Digital Transformation of the Canadian Agriculture and Mining Sectors
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• Vinodrai, Tara (with Ben Spigel) – Anchor Firm Disrupted: Creating a digital opportunity
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• Warrian, Peter – Advanced Manufacturing
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• Wolfe, David – Disrupt or be Disrupted: Research Findings from the CDO Project & Policy Questions
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• Wong, Joe (with George Poulakidas) – Going Global: Canadian Digital Firms
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CDO RESEARCH THEME SUMMARIES,  CDO 6TH ANNUAL AND FINAL CONFERENCE TORONTO – MAY 1, 2019

• THEME ONE 
  presented by Joseph Wong and George Poulakidas – Plugging into the Digital Economy: Opportunities and Challenges for Canada
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• THEME TWO 
  presented by Tijs Creutzberg and Tara Vinodrai: Agents and Assets – The Local Context for Canada’s Digital Opportunity
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• THEME THREE 
  presented by Peter Phillips and Peter Warrian – What has been the transformative impact of the digital revolution on traditional industries?
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• THEME FOUR 
  presented by Allison Bramwell (with Ken Coates and Neil Bradford) – Expanding digital opportunity in Canada? Summary of Theme IV research findings and policy implications
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STUDENT PRESENTATIONS, CDO CONFERENCE TORONTO – APRIL 29, 2019

• discussant: ray gosine, memorial university, st. john’s
  Jobe, Graeme – University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon – Governing Value Chain Disruption in Agriculture and Agri-Foods: A Behavioural Approach to Assessing Policy Implications?
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• discussant: jennifer jeffs, cic and university of toronto
  Nam, Geneva – Simon Fraser University, Vancouver – Bringing the QR-code to Canada: The rise of AliPay and WeChat Pay in Canadian e-commerce markets
  Draft Paper

• discussant: elena goracinova, university of toronto
  Schaefer, Kirsten – Ryerson University, Toronto – Diffusion of 3D Knitting: The Fashion Designer and the Digital Divide
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• discussant: zac spicer, government of ontario and university of toronto
  Woodside, Jon – University of Waterloo – One for the Road: The Threat of Monopoly and Municipal Regulation of Ride-1 Hailing Platforms in Toronto and the Greater Golden Horseshoe
  Draft Paper

CDO PARTNERSHIP POLICY DAY PRESENTATIONS, MONTREAL – MAY 1, 2017

• Damien Silès, General director, Quartier de l’innovation – An Econsystem of Innovation in the Heart of Montreal

• Philippe Molaret, Chief Technical Officer, Thales Canada – A Glance at Digital Management

CDO PARTNERSHIP NETWORK CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS, MONTREAL – MAY 2-3, 2017

• Beaudry, Catherine (with Mélik Bouhadra) – ICT Hardware Networks and Clusters in Quebec
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• Brail, Shauna – Disrupting Ground Transportation: Year in review
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• Bramwell, Allison (with Neil Bradford)  – Expanding Digital Opportunity? Inclusive Innovation in the ‘Ordinary City
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• Breznitz, Dan (with Steven Samford) – Multinational Investment and Foreign Enclave Formation
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• Breznitz, Shiri (with Martin Kenney and Doug Noonan) – Does Crowd Funding Reduce Regional Advantage?
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• Coates, Ken – Government and Community Strategies for Digital Engagement
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• Cohendet, Patrick (with David Grandadam) – Dynamics of Digital Ecosystems in Canada
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• Crelinsten, Jeff (with Mark Robbins) – The Role of Accelerators in Global Innovation Networks
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• Davis, Charles – Competencies for Creative Professionals in New Tech-Based Areas: The cases of AR/VR, 3D/digital fabrication, and analytics
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• Doloreux, David – ICTs, Internal and External Enablers of Innovation: An analysis of selected KIBS sectors in different regional settings
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• Donald, Betsy (with Anna Moroz) – The Uberization of the City and What it Means for Local Communities in Canada: The Kingston story
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• Goodman, Nicole (with Zac Spicer) – Conceptual Clarity and Smart Cities Research
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• Goracinova, Elena (with David Wolfe) – Regional Resilience and Ontario’s Automotive Cluster: Its future in the digital age
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• Haley, Brendan (with Tijs Creutzberg) – Transitioning to New Digital Opportunities in Ottawa Telecom/ICT Industries
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• Holbrook, Adam (with Ben Anderson et al ) – Creating Digital Opportunity in Vancouver: Digital industries in global perspective
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• Holroyd, Carin – East Asian Governments and the Promotion of the Digital Content Sector
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• Horton, Deanna – Canadian Technology Firms in Asian Markets: Patterns of entry and engagement
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• Jeffs, Jennifer, CIC  (with Brittney Dudar) – Regional Resilience and Ontario’s Automotive Cluster: Its future in the digital age
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• Kuess, Mark – Canadian Innovation Startups
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• Ornston, Darius – When Flagships Fail: Comparing Finland and Waterloo
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• Phillips, Peter (with Brian Wixted) – Diffusion of Digital Technology in Mining GPNs/GINs
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• Rhéaume, Louis (with Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay) – Cross-fertilization for Innovation, Training and Entrepreneurship in the Quebec IT-Multimedia Sector
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• Southin, Travis (with Steve Denney and David Wolfe) – Examining the Local Factors Driving the Global Competitiveness of Toronto’s ICT Sector
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• Ticoll, David – The Jobs Impact of Automation: It’s bigger than the thought leaders say
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• Vinodrai, Tara (with Ben Spigel) – Entrepreneurship, Labour Markets and the Regional Economy in Waterloo
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• Warrian, Peter – De-Coupling Production and Value Creation in Auto-Steel
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• Wong, Joseph (with Doug Fuller) – Plugging into a China-Centered Global Innovation Network
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STUDENT PRESENTATIONS, Montréal – May 1, 2017

discussants: betsy donald and david ticoll

• Escandon, Lorena – Montréal – Data Analytics as Inputs for Innovations in Engineering Design
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• Fotheringham, Jack and Graeme Jobe – Saskatchewan – Citizen Science in the Digital Age: Connecting unapplied capacities with unmet needs
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• Maqbool, Sana and Lidia Skenderi – Toronto – Successful Crowdfunding: Leveraging Digital Resources on Kickstarter
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• Southin, Travis – Toronto – Canada’s Inclusive Innovation Agenda in the Face of the Employment Threat of Automation
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• Wang, Yihan – Montréal – Entrepreneurial SMEs and Inter-Organizational Network Embeddedness
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CDO PANEL: CHALLENGES AND EMERGING TRENDS – NOVEMBER 26, 2015

Moderator: David Wolfe, Co-Director, Innovation Policy Lab President and CEO, Cybera
Panelists: Catherine Beaudry, Professor, Department of Mathematics and Engineering, Polytechnique Montréal
Tijs Creutzberg, Program and Business Development Director, Council of Canadian Academies
Adam Holbrook, Associate Director, Centre for Policy Research on Science and Technology, Simon Fraser University
Tara Vinodrai, Associate Professor, School of the Environment, University of Waterloo

Panel summary: ICT base strengthens resilience of city regions

CDO PARTNERSHIP MEETING PRESENTATIONS, OTTAWA – APRIL 29-30, 2015

• Beaudry, Catherine – Montreal (with Mélik Bouhadra) – Insights into ICT hardware networks in Quebec: A focus on university-industry networks and their location

• Bourgeois, Yves – Moncton / St. John – Creating digital opportunity: Skills, Scale, Skis and Scallops

• Coates, Ken – Saskatoon – Innovation and the Future of Rural and Northern Areas: Where does ICT fit in Community Economic Development Strategies

• Daggupaty, Vasudave – Toronto – A Strategic Investment Framework for Economic Development in the ICT Sector: Cisco Systems Canada – A Case Study

• Doloreux, David – Ottawa (with Richard Shearmur and Anika Laperrière) – External sourcing strategies, service innovation and location? Empirical evidence from Canadian KIBS firms
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• Froman, Adam – Delvinia and Asking Canadians – Toronto – Digital Strategy and Innovation: The Changing Face of Market Research in a Consumer-Centric Society

• Froman, Adam and David Wolfe – Toronto – Open Government and the Voice of e-Democracy: Harnessing the power of digital technologies to engage citizens in public policy

• Fuller, Doug – Hangzhou / Zhejiang, China (with Joe Wong, Toronto) – Politics in Command: Political Economy and China’s Innovation Prospects

• Galvin, Patrick – Toronto (with David Wolfe) – Toronto’s ICT Sector: Global Production Networks or Outsourcing & U.S. Continentalism

• Holbrook, Adam – Vancouver (with Ben Anderson) – Creating Digital Opportunity: a study of digital industries in Vancouver and their competitiveness in global markets

• Horton, Deanna – Toronto – Mapping Canada in Asia

• Hutchison, Bill – CATA-iCanada – Toronto – From iWaterfront to Canada: The Role of Intelligent Communities in Canada’s Digital Opportunity

• Aled ab Iorwerth, Council of Canadian Academies – Ottawa – The State of Industrial R&D

• Kleinman, Mark – London, UK / Toronto – Smart London (UK) Plan: Digital Technologies, London and Londoners

• Kuess, Mark – Celestica – Celestica Overview

• Lacroix, Anik – Investment Science and Technology Division, Statistics Canada – Measurement of the Digital Economy at Statistics Canada

• McKinnon, Scott – MEDEI – Toronto – Partnerships for Jobs and Growth Act: Ontario’s Digital Cluster Opportunities

• Phillips, Peter – Saskatoon – The digital opportunity in Canadian Agriculture

• Robertson, Andrew – CDMN – Ottawa – Canadian Digital Media Network

• Ticoll, David – ICTC – Toronto – Labour Supply/Demand Dynamics of Canada’s ICT Sector and Beyond

• Turner, Michael – Wesley Clover – Ottawa – Building Businesses: The Wesley Clover Company Development Plan

• Vinodrai, Tara – Kitchener-Waterloo (with Ben Spigel, Edinburgh, UK) – Did they stay or did they go? Digital talent and ICT anchor firm restructuring in Waterloo region

• Warrian, Peter – Toronto – Digital Manufacturing: Linking advanced materials and software

• Watters, David – Global Advantage – Ottawa – The Canadian Innovation System with Reference to the ICT Sector