Outline: Meric S. Gertler
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Professor PhD Harvard University (1983) MCP University of California, Berkeley (1979) BA (Hons) McMaster University (1977) Phone: (416) 978-5992 Location: Room 5063, Sidney Smith Hall (100 St. George) Email: gertler@geog.utoronto.ca |
| Research Interests |
| Regional and national systems of innovation Technology production and use in its spatial context: relations between Canadian users and overseas producers of advanced technologies (with emphasis on German firms) Political economy of technological change and industrial reorganization in its geographical context: Canada and the Western economies Local and regional economic development policy and planning Economic change in the Toronto region |
| Selected Publications |
| Gertler, M. S. 2004. Manufacturing Culture: the Institutional Geography of Industrial Practice. Oxford: Oxford University Press. |
| Gertler, M. S. 2003. A cultural economic geography of production: are we learning by doing? In The Handbook of Cultural Geography, eds. K. Anderson, M. Domosh, S. Pile and N. Thrift, 131-146. London: Sage. |
| Gertler, M. S. and D.A. Wolfe, eds. 2002. Innovation and Social Learning: Institutional Adaptation in an Era of Technological Change. Basingstoke, UK: Macmillan/Palgrave. |
| Rutherford, T. D. and M. S. Gertler. 2002. Labour in ‘lean’ times: geography, scale and the national trajectories of workplace change. Transactions, Institute of British Geographers NS27: 1-18. |
