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A positive side benefit has been significant endowments and support of basic scientific research. e.g. http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/ http://www.perimeterin
by theorique 14y ago
A positive side benefit has been significant endowments and support of basic scientific research.
e.g. http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/ http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/
However, it's even better if RIM had created an ecology of entrepreneurship that could endow dozens of such institutes...
- rimbo789 14y agoRIM didn't create an ecology of entrepreneurship because it already existed in one. It was part of the start-up community that has come out of the University of Waterloo.
- theorique 14y agoFair point, but it was probably the biggest success story out of the area and as such was the flagship. (Responsibility to give back and all that.)