The Montreal Multimedia Sector: A Cluster, a New Mode of Governance or a Simple Co-location?/Le Secteur Du Multimedia a Montreal : Une Grappe, Un Milieu Innovateur Ou Une Simple Colocalisation?
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Abstract
The multimedia sector is one of the high-tech sectors that have contributed to revitalizing the economic base of the Montreal region. A relatively young sector, its many applications have created visions of sustained growth, arousing the interest of many public and private actors in the sector. The sector has fulfilled its promises in part and met a number of expectations, to such an extent that for a number of years the sector was an unqualified success. This paper examines the mechanisms of governance set up by actors in the Montreal region in order to build the foundations of a new industry and discusses the factors that helped trigger or motivate the mobilization of the actors involved in creating this sector. In so doing, we try to determine whether the activity observed in Montreal can be considered a cluster, as this concept implies important or constant interaction amongst the actors of the sector. While the governance established in Montreal is rather reactive, it was a success because it can be considered as joint governance, inasmuch as many social actors are associated in the spatial policy known as the Cite du multimedia, as well as the general development of the multimedia sector. This governance has evolved over the years according to information and changes in the environment and something close to a cluster seems to be emerging in Montreal. Our research highlights the role of various actors in developing governance actions which contributed to the development of the multimedia sector in Montreal, and therefore to the development of Montreal as a Knowledge City. Le secteur multimedia est l'un des secteurs de haute technologie qui ont contribue a revitaliser la region de Montreal. S'il s'agit d'un secteur relativement jeune, il a connu un grand succes pendant quelques annees et notre article s'interroge sur certaines des sources du succes de ce secteur a Montreal. Nous nous penchons sur les mecanismes de gouvernance etablis par les acteurs de la region de Montreal afin de creer une nouvelle industrie et nous evaluons les facteurs qui ont contribue a la mobilisation de ces acteurs. Ce faisant, nous tentons de determiner si l'on peut parler d'un > dans le cas de Montreal, puisque ce concept implique qu'il y ait des interactions constantes ou importantes entre les acteurs du secteur. Nous montrerons que bien que fondee sur un processus de gouvernance plutot reactif que proactif, la mobilisation a connu un succes parce qu'il s'est agi d'un processus de gouvernance mixte; en effet, nombre d'acteurs ont ete associes a la politique spatiale de la Cite du multimedia, comme au developpement de l'ensemble du secteur. Cette gouvernance a evolue au fil des ans, en reaction aux informations et changements dans l'environnement, et il semblerait qu'emerge un > dans le secteur montrealais du multimedia. Notre recherche met en evidence le role des divers acteurs dans le developpement des actions de gouvernance qui ont contribue au developpement du secteur du multimedia a Montreal, et de ce fait a l'inscription de Montreal au nombre des Cites du savoir. ********** The multimedia sector is one of the high-tech sectors that have contributed greatly to revitalizing the economic base of the Montreal region. A relatively young sector, its many applications have created visions of sustained growth, arousing the interest of many public and private actors in the sector. The sector has fulfilled its promises in part and met a number of expectations, to such an extent that for a number of years it actually experienced labour shortage, raiding of workers, high wages, the creation of many firms and significant interest on the part of the financial community. In short, for a few years the sector was an unqualified success. Unfortunately, today, the reality is somewhat different. Yesterday's euphoria has given way to a certain level of disillusionment as a result of significant changes in the multimedia landscape over the past two years. …
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.005 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".