The Thin Edge of Innovation

Roger Hayter is a professor emeritus of geography at Simon Fraser University. He is the author of Technology and the Canadian Forest-Product Industries: A Policy Perspective, The Dynamics of Industrial Location: The Factory, the Farm, and the Production System, and Flexible Crossroads: The Restructuring of British Columbia’s Forest Economy. Jerry Patchell is an associate professor emeritus of social science, environment and sustainability, and public policy at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He is a co-author, with Roger Hayter, of Economic Geography: And Institutional Approach and author of China’s Greater Bay Area: Agglomeration, External Economies, Governance, and Urbanization. Kevin Rees is an associate professor and head of the Department of Geography at Swansea University.