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Attracting And Retaining The Highly Skilled In Medium-Sized City-Regions Of Ontario, Kyle Clemens
Attracting And Retaining The Highly Skilled In Medium-Sized City-Regions Of Ontario, Kyle Clemens
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Canada’s medium-sized cities have recently experienced a significant net loss in human capital growth attributed alone to internal migration. Subsequently, the largest cities in the country have received a net growth in human capital in part due to internal migration. Using mixed qualitative methods in the form of a policy document analysis and in-depth key informant interviews, this study aims to understand how and to what extent institutional relations are leveraging post-secondary education institutions in medium-sized city-regions of Ontario to attract and retain the highly skilled. The results of this study reveal that limited collaboration to leverage the post-secondary education …
Economic Development In A Changing Global Economy: Examining The Perspectives Of Practitioners In Ontario, Canada, Maxwell Taabazuing
Economic Development In A Changing Global Economy: Examining The Perspectives Of Practitioners In Ontario, Canada, Maxwell Taabazuing
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Although economic development has been a long standing tradition within policy agenda of municipalities, it has nevertheless undergone significant changes as a way of gaining competitiveness over the years. Since the 1990s, however, economic development has become a critical component on municipalities’ agenda, partly as a result of local municipal level conditions and partly due to global economic changes. The emerging dynamics are leading to a more rapidly evolving field of economic development. In view of the recent trends, many scholars of economic development have argued that municipalities will need to substantially reconfigure and change their approaches in order to …