The Book

My research is fueling a book. I’m uniting the concepts of “location” and “innovation” together in a business book for entrepreneurs who want to innovate outside traditional geographic clusters for their industry. 

Much in the same way that Geoffrey Moore popularized and adapted decades-earlier agricultural innovation research by Rogers and his peers on the technology adoption lifecycle into his popular book, Crossing the Chasm, I plan to blend secondary research on location and innovation with interviews uncovering the experiences of successful “off the beaten path” entrepreneurs. Stay tuned!

The Wired West

“The Wired West” is a metonym for Western Canada’s Emerging SME (Small and Medium Enterprise) Technology Community. (Other examples of metonymy are Hollywood − for the American entertainment industry, Madison Avenue − for the advertising industry, and Silicon Valley − for central California’s high-tech community).

The term was coined in 2007 by Calgary-based technology marketers and entrepreneurs, Sharon M. McIntyre and Claudia Moore, and introduced at a December 2007 tech-entrepreneur panel moderated by American venture capitalist and best-selling author, Guy Kawasaki.