{"id":8921,"date":"2016-01-05T05:43:29","date_gmt":"2016-01-05T10:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=8921"},"modified":"2016-01-04T18:32:59","modified_gmt":"2016-01-04T23:32:59","slug":"how-did-3-university-presidents-get-it-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=8921","title":{"rendered":"How did 3 university presidents get it wrong?"},"content":{"rendered":"

An article in the Globe and Mail<\/a> over the holidays merits highlighting. “Southern Ontario should be an innovation cluster, not a farm team<\/a>” was authored by Patrick Deane, Meric Gertler and Feridun Hamdullahpur, the president and vice-chancellor of McMaster University, the president of the University of Toronto and the president and vice-chancellor of the University of Waterloo respectively. In their article, the academic institutions’ leaders set out to describe a vision for a Southern Ontario innovation supercluster in the Toronto, Waterloo and Hamilton regions.<\/p>\n

As they write, “Enabling higher rates of knowledge-intensive growth in an economy as diverse and complex as Southern Ontario\u2019s requires a break from the status quo.”<\/p>\n

So how do we realize this ecosystem\u2019s full innovative potential, instead of continuing as a farm team? The right mix of investments and policies will spur us forward.<\/p>\n