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1 min readNov 1, 2015
In it’s brief, titled “Moving Niagara Towards a Knowledge Economy,” the Brock University research group says that while Niagara has strengths in agriculture, tourism and as a border community, manufacturing enterprises have been the traditional source of jobs in the area.
With the decline of the manufacturing sector, large and small communities in Canada are now positioning themselves to function as “vibrant economic hubs.” Core to these hubs is a knowledge economy, which “places a premium on creativity and creation of new knowledge and innovation as drivers of economic revitalization,” says the brief.
