Assessing Innovation’s Impact on Canadian Urban Growth

Assessing Innovation’s Impact on Canadian Urban Growth

This paper examines the relationship between innovation and urban growth from a Canadian metropolitan perspective. Urban growth is defined as the decline and growth of the economic agglomerations (web 1). health care sector. The act of patenting medical Innovation, on the other hand, is the process or act of introducing new methods, devices or ideas or something new. For a long time innovation has been viewed as one of the core drivers of change and economic growth (Schumpeter 39; Romer 71-102; Solow 312-320). Innovation according to Karlsson (112) leads to the emergence of new sectors of the economy, development of new products and jobs creation. Though innovation is…