Ontario in the Creative Age

The report is presented in response to the request made in March 2008 by Premier Dalton McGuinty to Roger Martin and Richard Florida. Together with our research team, these two undertook a study of the changing composition of Ontario’s economy and workforce and have provided recommendations to the Province on how to ensure our economy and people remain globally competitive and prosperous. This visionary report, released on February 5, 2009, marks the beginning of a dialog with Ontario.

The Report

• Ontario in the Creative Age – Full Report (English)
• Ontario in the Creative Age – Full Report (Francais)
• Ontario in the Creative Age Media Release

Interviews

• Richard Florida on TVO’s Allan Gregg in Conversation
  (12 minute video)
  Florida discusses the early research that led to the creative class theory, the importance of mega-regions, and the need to extend the creative economy to blue-collar workers.
• Roger Martin on the importance of innovation and risk-taking in an economic downturn
  (4 min. video)
  Interview by BusinessWeek.

Assessing Ontario: The 3 Ts of Economic Development

• Ontario Competes: Performance Overview using the 3 Ts of Economic Development
• Interactive map with all Ontario CMA reports
• Toronto’s performance on the 3 Ts of economic development
• Ottawa’s performance on the 3 Ts of economic development
• Hamilton’s performance on the 3 Ts of economic development
• Ontario’s mid-sized regions’ performance on the 3 Ts of economic development
• Ontario’s small-sized regions’ performance on the 3 Ts of economic development
• Understanding our Terminology

Martin Prosperity Insights

• Economic Pain Not Spread Equally
• Ontario Values Creative Class Occupations Less than our U.S. Peers Do
• A New Menu for Ontario’s Food Economy
• Ontario on the Move: Put Infrastructure Where It’s Needed
• Driving Away: The Impact of a 50% Drop in the Demand for Ontario’s Automotive Output
• Inside Canada’s Black Box of Regional Development
• Recent Immigrants are the Most Educated and Yet Underemployed in the Canadian Labour Force
• The Rise of the Service Class
• Why You Can’t get a Pizza Delivered in Stockholm
• Leaders and Laggards of Ontario: How our Metro Regions Stack Up
• Head Office Clustering in the Mega-Regions
• Creativity in the Rural Economy: Opportunities in Rural Areas & Smaller Centres

Ontario Working Papers Series – February 2009

• Betsy Donald. From Kraft to Craft: Innovation and Creativity in Ontario’s Food Economy
• Heather Hall, Betsy Donald. Innovation and Creativity on the Periphery: Challenges and Opportunities in Northern Ontario
• Andrea Baldwin. Creativity, Social Benefit and Job Creation: The Potential for Social Entrepreneurship in Ontario
• Chris Kennedy, Bryan Karney, Eric Miller and Marianne Hatzopoulou. Infrastructure and the Economy: Future Directions for Ontario
• Azmi Haq. Ontario’s South Asian Transnationals: Unlocking the Potential of an Untapped Resource
• Stewart Melanson. Learning from the Past, Volume 1: The Automotive Industry and Economic Development in Ontario – a Historical Perspective (1904- Present)
• Rick DiFrancesco. Specification and Evaluation of Alternate Projections of the Magnitude and Structure of the Ontario Economy to 2020
• Brian Hracs. Building Ontario’s Music Economies
• Allison Bramwell. Ontario Creative Colleges in the Creative Age: Bohemians, Bioinformatics and the Built Environment

Ontario Working Papers Series – March 2009

• Richard Florida, Charlotta Mellander, Kevin Stolarick. Talent, Technology and Tolerance in Canadian Regional Development
• David Wolfe, Jen Nelles. Strategic Management of Urban Economies and the Scope for Intermunicipal Cooperation: Alternative Approaches to Local and Regional Development
• Karen King. The Geography of Immigration in Canada: Settlement, Education, Labour Activity and Occupation Profiles
• Carla Sedini. Evaluating Higher-Education Excellence Using the 3Ts – Creation and Attraction of Technology, Talent and Tolerance by Ontario Colleges and Universities
• Tara Vinodrai. The Place of Design: Exploring Ontario’s Design Economy
• Amy Cervenan. Service Class Prosperity in Ontario
• Anil Verma. Low Wage Service Workers: A Profile

Ontario Working Papers Series – April 2009

• Karen King, Charlotta Mellander, Kevin Stolarick. What You Do, Not Who You Work For: A Comparison of the Occupational and Industry Structures of Canada, the United States, and Sweden
• Scott Pennington. The Opportunity for Entrepreneurship in Ontario
• Richard Florida, Kathrine Richardson, Kevin Stolarick. Locating for Potential: An Empirical Study of Company X’s Innovation Centre in Vancouver, British Columbia

Our Team

Authors

• Roger Martin, Dean, Rotman School of Management
• Richard Florida, Director, Martin Prosperity Institute

Project Team Direction

• James Milway, Executive Director, Martin Prosperity Institute
• David Smith, Project Leader, Martin Prosperity Institute
• Kevin Stolarick, Research Director, Martin Prosperity Institute

Project Team

Patrick Adler, Tamer Azer, Fan Bai, Lance Bialas, Katherine Chan, Marisol D’Andrea, Yousuf Haque, Anam Kidwai, Aaron Meyer, Joshua Murphy, Sana Nisar, Scott Pennington, Paulo Raposo, Adrienne Ross, Kim Ryan, Ronnie Sanders, Daniela Scur, Kim Silk, Ying (Sunny) Sun, Ian Swain, Michael Wolfe