Waterloo Innovation Network

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How to make the Toronto-Waterloo corridor into a world-leading innovation centre 

Despite all our assets, the reality today is less an integrated corridor than a series of inadequately linked silos within the Toronto and Waterloo technology ecosystems. We must supplant these silos with the kind of superconnectivity – among entrepreneurs, investors, skilled talent, university researchers, mentors, governments and markets – that powers the London-Cambridge corridor or the San Francisco-San Jose corridor, and, in turn, the British and U.S. economies.

So, how do we do it? Our recipe would look like this:
- Add transportation infrastructure. ...
- Build collaborative bridges between our institutes of higher learning. ...
- Add a heaping spoonful of risk capital. ...
- Stir continuously. ...
- Reduce risk aversion in new product procurement. ...
- Think more globally.

The question is, do we have the collective will to make it happen, and quickly?