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Featured Success StoryGrowing the BlackBerry Bumper Crop:
More than 20 years ago, University of Waterloo student Mike Lazaridis started a small company called Research In Motion (RIM). Since then, he has made two big discoveries: the first was the technology that sparked the birth of the BlackBerry; the second was that everything he needed to build a global, multi-billion dollar company could be found in Waterloo Region, Ontario. |
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“The model for Canada’s economic future: Waterloo Region”
“… it has relied on a century of change and innovation to produce one of Canada’s strongest economies. It’s a knowledge capital with a thriving entrepreneurial culture. It’s our future. If Canada is to prosper beyond the current commodities boom, we must learn from Waterloo’s success, or risk becoming a global economic backwater.”
Globe and Mail, Report on Business, April 25, 2006
“… it has relied on a century of change and innovation to produce one of Canada’s strongest economies. It’s a knowledge capital with a thriving entrepreneurial culture. It’s our future. If Canada is to prosper beyond the current commodities boom, we must learn from Waterloo’s success, or risk becoming a global economic backwater.”
Globe and Mail, Report on Business, April 25, 2006
