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Toward A Consensus Strategy for Federal Technology Policy.

The Japanese System and Its Transfer to the U.S. by Martin Kenney and Richard Florida

In this paper, the comparative responses of the USA and Japan to the rise of the new high-technology industries are examined. The United States pattern mainly revolves around the rise of high-technology districts like Silicon Valley and Route 128 which comprise dense networks of small entrepreneurial firms and other related institutions.

Capitalism is undergoing an epochal transformation from a mas-production system where the principal source of value was physical labour to a new era of innovation-mediated production where the principal component of value creation, productivity and economic growth is knowledge and intellectual capabilities.

The Globe and Mail

The Globe and Mail

The Globe and Mail

Richard Florida on his adopted city’s central role in a new world order built not around nations but around mega-regions.

Berlin and it’s stand with the creative class