Don’t be fooled by the rise of machines and artificial intelligence: innovation lives within people – not concrete, silicon or steel.
Our innovators are the ones who continue to find new ways of improving these materials to better our everyday lives, our health, our environment, and our economies.
As often, they discover innovative ways of teaching our children, of drafting smarter policies for government, and of guiding our cultural institutions.
Such is a benefit of living in a city like Canada’s London, which thrives on education, research and applying innovation – particularly through its college, university and extensive hospital network, not to mention businesses and institutes scattered throughout the city.
A community can never have too much talent, but it must still nurture it. By building supports around our innovators, we can create clusters of strength on which we can proudly stamp “Made in Canada’s London.”
Innovation, quite naturally, begets innovation.
Like rain clouds with silver linings, though, these clusters need to build and build to a critical mass before they can shower us with their results.
Clustering is a big part of a new initiative at Western University, which is investing more than $30 million in a ‘brain gain’ to attract some of the world’s top talent in areas where the city is already seen as a global leader.
