Innovation, clusters

Here is some good news from Canada's manufacturing companies. The story has some good examples of innovation in practice, and bodes well for those companies that put innovation as a business strategy front and centre. The story is a bit of a contrast from one I read earlier in the summer that paints a gloomy picture of the Canadian technology market. While some say RIM should not be counted out, I did note that there is no Blackberry app for the Canadian Olympic app, an unfortunate coincidence.

And while we are on the topic of summer reading, here is a good report from the Toronto Board of Trade:
Business Takes the Lead: Collaborate to Compete is a report from the Toronto Region Economic
Summit, held on 29 March 2012. My report on this is here, and this call to action is a good reminder why the Toronto area is one of the world's leading economic regions, and has the capacity for more. I look forward to supporting the further development of the innovation clusters as outlined in this report.