Introduction: Metro Vancouver’s Economy Post-industrial Transformation Towards an Innovation Economy
1 Rethinking Forestry’s Role Towards Value and Innovation
2 Metro Vancouver High-Tech Firms in Arrested Transition?
3 The Influence of FDI in Metro Vancouver High Tech
4 Inter-firm Relations Among High-tech Activities: Local Clustering and Global Connections
5 Deepening Institutional Support for Metro Vancouver High-tech
6 Lifestyle Innovators, West-coast Style
7 Metro Vancouver on the Thin Edge of Innovation, and Associated Conundrums
Appendix 1: Locally-Founded “Transitioning” Firms in Metro Vancouver High-tech to circa 2019
Appendix 2: Foreign Firms in Metro Vancouver’s High-tech Sector 1980-2019
Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index