Comments on: On "How to Be Silicon Valley", Part 2 http://www.joeydevilla.com/2006/05/26/on-how-to-be-silicon-valley-part-2/ Joey deVilla's Personal Blog Sat, 19 Jul 2008 23:54:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Global Nerdy | Ideas to Steal from Silicon Valley and Seattle http://www.joeydevilla.com/2006/05/26/on-how-to-be-silicon-valley-part-2/#comment-11520 Global Nerdy | Ideas to Steal from Silicon Valley and Seattle Sat, 16 Feb 2008 04:58:17 +0000 http://www.joeydevilla.com/2006/05/26/on-how-to-be-silicon-valley-part-2/#comment-11520 [...] On “How to be Silicon Valley”, Part 2: Even more comments on How to be Silicon Valley. [...] [...] On “How to be Silicon Valley”, Part 2: Even more comments on How to be Silicon Valley. [...]

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.joeydevilla.com/2006/05/26/on-how-to-be-silicon-valley-part-2/#comment-7659 Anonymous Mon, 29 May 2006 20:14:54 +0000 http://www.joeydevilla.com/2006/05/26/on-how-to-be-silicon-valley-part-2/#comment-7659 Hey Joey, I was at Frys Electronics too a couple of days ago. Great place, and it's big with lots of electronics and gadgets. A gadgets dream come true! Hey Joey, I was at Frys Electronics too a couple of days ago. Great place, and it’s big with lots of electronics and gadgets. A gadgets dream come true!

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.joeydevilla.com/2006/05/26/on-how-to-be-silicon-valley-part-2/#comment-7657 Anonymous Sun, 28 May 2006 17:22:55 +0000 http://www.joeydevilla.com/2006/05/26/on-how-to-be-silicon-valley-part-2/#comment-7657 At least you didn't say beautiful :) I always found it funny when people were telling me about the beautiful river vallery, personally I didn't find it that beautiful, though it was nice to run along the river valley rather than running along Whyte etc. At least you didn’t say beautiful :)
I always found it funny when people were telling me about the beautiful river vallery, personally I didn’t find it that beautiful, though it was nice to run along the river valley rather than running along Whyte etc.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.joeydevilla.com/2006/05/26/on-how-to-be-silicon-valley-part-2/#comment-7658 Anonymous Sun, 28 May 2006 17:21:08 +0000 http://www.joeydevilla.com/2006/05/26/on-how-to-be-silicon-valley-part-2/#comment-7658 There really is nothing to steal in Edmonton. I've lived there for 18 months and the only good thing I can say about the City of Edmonton is that you can get away from it... Really, that's the only good thing about it. There really is nothing to steal in Edmonton. I’ve lived there for 18 months and the only good thing I can say about the City of Edmonton is that you can get away from it… Really, that’s the only good thing about it.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.joeydevilla.com/2006/05/26/on-how-to-be-silicon-valley-part-2/#comment-7656 Anonymous Sat, 27 May 2006 00:09:43 +0000 http://www.joeydevilla.com/2006/05/26/on-how-to-be-silicon-valley-part-2/#comment-7656 From Edmonton, TO should take the example of our accessible river valler: http://www.flickr.com/photos/corriegirl/sets/642611/ http://www.edmonton.ca/portal/server.pt?space=CommunityPage&control=SetCommunity&CommunityID=221&PageID=0 http://www.epl.ca/EPLPathfinder.cfm?id=EDMONTON'1 Blast the Gardiner! From Edmonton, TO should take the example of our accessible river valler:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/corriegirl/sets/642611/

http://www.edmonton.ca/portal/server.pt?space=CommunityPage&control=SetCommunity&CommunityID=221&PageID=0

http://www.epl.ca/EPLPathfinder.cfm?id=EDMONTON‘1

Blast the Gardiner!

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.joeydevilla.com/2006/05/26/on-how-to-be-silicon-valley-part-2/#comment-7655 Anonymous Fri, 26 May 2006 18:48:32 +0000 http://www.joeydevilla.com/2006/05/26/on-how-to-be-silicon-valley-part-2/#comment-7655 Instead of a strategy of trying to have Toronto "acknowledged globally as one of the 5 most innovative, creative and productive locations in the world for ICT... " ICT Toronto could actually do things that make it one and let the good news travel on its own. I hear this new fangled internet thing is pretty good at doing that sort of thing. In this <a href="http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_PrintFriendly&c=Article&cid=1136501415617&call_pageid=971358637177" rel="nofollow">article</a> Montreal beat Toronto out as the choice for new investment companies by providing incentives and tax relief as well as counting on its unique culture. Toronto can't and shouldn't try to compete against the latter, but it certainly could get caught up on the first two. If you compare the City of Toronto's own key industry cluster profiles for the <a href="http://www.toronto.ca/economic_profile/film.htm" rel="nofollow">Film & Television</a> and <a href="http://www.toronto.ca/economic_profile/informationtech.htm" rel="nofollow">ICT</a> you can see that the ICT cluster profile doesn't even have an incentives section. I'll leave the argument for others that it doesn't have a cluster development strategy one either. Eldon Instead of a strategy of trying to have Toronto “acknowledged globally as one of the 5 most innovative, creative and productive locations in the world for ICT… ” ICT Toronto could actually do things that make it one and let the good news travel on its own. I hear this new fangled internet thing is pretty good at doing that sort of thing.

In this article Montreal beat Toronto out as the choice for new investment companies by providing incentives and tax relief as well as counting on its unique culture. Toronto can’t and shouldn’t try to compete against the latter, but it certainly could get caught up on the first two.

If you compare the City of Toronto’s own key industry cluster profiles for the Film & Television and ICT you can see that the ICT cluster profile doesn’t even have an incentives section. I’ll leave the argument for others that it doesn’t have a cluster development strategy one either.

Eldon

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