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
