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Tara Vinodrai
Assistant Professor
Geography and Environmental Management,
Centre for Environment and Business
Contact Information:
Phone: +1-519-888-4567 ext. 33278
Office: EV3 - 4231
Email: tvinodra(at)uwaterloo.ca
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Degrees:
| Ph.D. |
Department of Geography and Program in Planning, University of Toronto, Canada, 2005 |
| M.A. |
Department of Geography, Queen's University, Canada, 1998 |
| B.A. |
Queen's University, Canada, 1996 |
Research Interests:
- Economic geography
- Urban and regional economic development and policy
- Creative and cultural economy of cities
- Labour market dynamics and
workforce development
- Design, innovation and technological change
Graduate Student Supervision:
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# of students currently
supervising/co-supervising |
Total # of student
supervisions/co-supervisions |
| Masters |
4 |
4 |
Recent/Key Publications:
- Vinodrai, T. 2010. Cities and the changing dynamics of the Canadian economy: Innovation, culture and the emergence of a knowledge based economy. In T. Bunting, P. Filion, and R. Walker, eds. Canadian Cities in Transition, 4th edition. London: Oxford [forthcoming]
- Spencer, G., Vinodrai, T., Gertler, M.S., and Wolfe, D. 2010. Do clusters make a difference? Defining and assessing their economic performance. Regional Studies [forthcoming]
- Vinodrai, T. 2009. Working here, made there: Project-based design work in Toronto. In G. Rusten and J.R. Bryson, eds. Industrial Design, Competition and Globalisation. Palgrave MacMillan. [in press]
- Vinodrai, T. 2009. The place of design: Exploring Ontario's design economy. Ontario in the Creative Age Working Paper Series. Toronto: Martin Prosperity Institute, University of Toronto.
- Gertler, M.S. and Vinodrai, T. 2009. Life sciences and regional innovation: One path or many? European Planning Studies 18(2): 235-261.
- Vinodrai, T., Gertler, M.S. and Lambert, R. 2007. Capturing design: Lessons from the United Kingdom and Canada. In Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators in a Changing World: Responding to Policy Needs, ed. A. Arundel, A. Colecchia, and F. Gault. Paris: OECD.
- Vinodrai, T. and Gertler, M.S. 2007. Measuring the creative economy: The structure and economic performance of Ontario's creative, cultural and new media clusters. Report prepared for the Ontario Ministry of Culture.
- Vinodrai, T. 2006. Reproducing Toronto's design ecology: Career paths, intermediaries, and local labor markets. Economic Geography 82(3): 237-263.
- Gertler, M.S. and Vinodrai, T. 2005. Learning from America? Knowledge flows and industrial practices of German firms in North America. Economic Geography 81(1): 31-52.
- Gertler, M.S. and Vinodrai, T. 2005. Anchors of creativity: How public universities create competitive and cohesive communities. In Taking Public Universities Seriously, ed. F. Iacobucci and C. Tuohy. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Courses Taught:
- ENBUS 302: Evaluation of Environment and Business Integration
- ENBUS 312: Company Organization and Engagement
- GEOG/LED/PLAN 611: Industrial Location Theory
- GEOG/LED 685: Theory of Local Economic Development
- LED 686: Practice of Local Economic Development
