Getting the money and basic policy right is the easiest part. The fact is that it's really really hard to compete with California's intrinsic benefits. If Canad

Getting the money and basic policy right is the easiest part. The fact is that it's really really hard to compete with California's intrinsic benefits. If Canada wants to develop its own SV, they need to figure out how to develop single region that's extremely attractive to a wide demographic range of the highest achieving among us. This means cultivating a place with a sophisticated and edgy culture, an awesome lifestyle, and compelling geography. If I were a Canadian policy maker, I'd probably work from the intrinsic potential of Vancouver. Pour money and talent into UBC and/or SFU, set up hundreds of live-work artist studios, sponsor the construction of maker spaces and publicly accessible wet labs, liberalize drug policy, and set up a visa program to bring in and house the best and the brightest from all over (South America, Europe, Asia), and direct them all to a relatively small and extremely fun area. And perhaps most of all, avoid "Made in Canada/BC" provincialism.