Book Discussion Series
Connect with iGP Alumni through our book discussion series on relevant books featuring author-led sessions.
Innovation in Real Places: Strategies for Prosperity in an Unforgiving World
by Dan Breznitz
About: A challenge to prevailing ideas about innovation and a guide to identifying the best growth strategy for your community. Across the world, cities and regions have wasted trillions of dollars on blindly copying the Silicon Valley model of growth creation. Since the early years of the information age, we''ve been told that economic growth derives from harnessing technological innovation. To do this, places must create good education systems, partner with local research universities, and attract innovative hi-tech firms. We have lived with this system for decades, and the result is clear: a small number of regions and cities at the top of the high-tech industry but many more fighting a losing battle to retain economic dynamism. But are there other models that don''t rely on a flourishing high-tech industry? In Innovation in Real Places, Dan Breznitz argues that there are.
Time: All sessions will run between 5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. ET
Format: Meeting through Zoom for all sessions except the last session on September 12 which is an in person event to connect with the author.
Dates: 6 weeks, meeting once a week
August 10 (with Scott McKnight)
August 17 (with Scott McKnight)
August 24 (with Dan Breznitz)
August 31 (with Scott McKnight)
September 6 (with Scott McKnight)
September 12 (with Dan Breznitz)
Discussion Facilitators
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Dan Breznitz
Chair of Innovation Studies, the Co-Director of the Innovation Policy Lab, and a professor of global affairs and political science at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy at the University of Toronto
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Scott McKnight
Research associate and lecturer at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy at the University of Toronto