Publications & Presentations
Through our training, client projects, and media contribution and commentary activities, Millier Dickinson Blais generates publications and presentations that serve as resources for economic developers. These include:
Best Practices
Investing in Economic Development: Important Key Indicators Municipalities Should Assess
Paul Blais
Prophets in Their Own Hometowns: Why We Shouldn’t Turn a Blind Eye to Local Visionaries
Brock Dickinson
Business
Retooling The Economy From Our Garage: Entrepreneurs Are Coming Out of the Woodwork, but They Face Several Obstacles
Brock Dickinson
The 400-Hour Workweek: The Transition from 19th-Century Clippers to Email Should Have Given Entrepreneurs More Free Time…
Brock Dickinson
Plenty of Office Space: From Castles to WiFi-enabled Coffee Shops, Our Workspace Has Rapidly Evolved and Proliferated Over the Past 1,000 Years
Brock Dickinson
Where are Niagara’s Young Guns?
Brock Dickinson
Buy When Others Are Fearful: How to Survive and Thrive in the Current Economic Crisis
Brock Dickinson
Creative Economy
Building a Creative Rural Economy
Greg Baeker
Cultural Development
Culture, Authenticity, Place: Connecting Cultural Mapping and Place Branding
Greg Baeker and Jeanette Hanna
Cultural Mapping Tools: Connecting Place, Culture, and Economy for the Creation of Local Wealth
Greg Baeker
Mapping Community Identity: The Power of Stories
Greg Baeker and David T. Brown
Creative Connections: Saskatoon Builds Its Creative City
Greg Baeker
Culture + Place = Wealth Creation
Greg Baeker and Glen Murray
Municipal Cultural Planning – Combating the “Geography of Nowhere”
Greg Baeker
Environment
Building Tomorrow’s Economy: Committing to the Environment Means Opportunities for Our Children
Brock Dickinson
Building the New Economy: Why Niagara should trade its Blue Collars for Green
Brock Dickinson
John Bordynuik’s Plan to Fix the World – Turning plastic Into Fuel: This Kind of Technology is an Economic and Environmental Game Changer
Brock Dickinson
Globalization
Individual Sovereignty and New Models of Community
Brock Dickinson
Learning to be Swiss: It’s Time for Niagara to Embrace a High Loonie, Rather Than Shun It
Brock Dickinson
Technology
Web 2.0, Wikis and the Wisdom of the Crowd
Brock Dickinson
Flying Geese, Leapfrog and the Information Revolution
Brock Dickinson
Workforce Development
Canada’s Workforce Crisis: Moving from Conversation to Action
