The Economic Geography of Canada's AI Ecosystem

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dc.contributor.advisorBirch, Kean D.
dc.contributor.authorBabashahiashtiani, Kasra
dc.date.accessioned2022-03-03T14:08:52Z
dc.date.available2022-03-03T14:08:52Z
dc.date.copyright2021-12
dc.date.issued2022-03-03
dc.date.updated2022-03-03T14:08:52Z
dc.degree.disciplineGeography
dc.degree.levelMaster's
dc.degree.nameMA - Master of Arts
dc.description.abstractCanada's artificial intelligence (AI) sector is receiving significant interest and investment from governments across Canada. These investments target emerging clusters of AI startups across the country and follow an expectation that AI will have substantial economic and societal impacts as a general-purpose technology. However, to secure venture capital, these startups become subjects of global financial networks, dictating their development trajectory. This project investigates Canada's AI ecosystem's financialization dynamics within the context of global financial networks and their interplay with the spatial distribution of the AI startups' agglomeration effects. By adopting a mixed-methods approach that included constructing a database, interviews, and policy analysis, I found that the Government of Canada has facilitated the ecosystem's growth, but it has not internalized the benefits of its investments successfully. Furthermore, while Canadian AI clusters have developed distinct entrepreneurial atmospheres from each other, they commonly rely on foreign investments and markets, especially from the US.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/39141
dc.languageen
dc.rightsAuthor owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.
dc.subjectGeography
dc.subject.keywordsFinancial geography
dc.subject.keywordsArtificial intelligence
dc.subject.keywordsPublic policy
dc.subject.keywordsTechnoscientific capitalism
dc.subject.keywordsInnovation
dc.subject.keywordsFinance
dc.subject.keywordsEconomic geography
dc.titleThe Economic Geography of Canada's AI Ecosystem
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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