The Case of a Home Grown High-Tech Sector in a Small Canadian City
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Abstract
High-tech firms are associated with innovation and efficiency, and the attraction of such firms is a coveted goal for the economic development of most urban centres. This research examines the location decision factors of high-tech firms in the small Canadian city of Kamloops, British Columbia. Semi-structured interviews were used to collect information from 18 high-tech firms in Kamloops about their reasons for locating in a small city. The data was analysed with quantitative and qualitative techniques. The results indicate that a combination of soft and hard factors was influential in the decision to locate in Kamloops with soft factors associated with quality of life factors dominating the decision. The results also suggest that business supports have played a significant role in the success of some firms. The research results are expected to be valuable to policymakers concerned with economic development in small urban centres. Keywords: high-tech; economic development; urban development; location theory; Canada _______________________________________ Etude de cas 1: Le cas d'un secteur high-tech local dans une petite ville canadienne Resume Les entreprises de haute technologie sont associees a l'innovation et a l'efficacite, et l'attrait de ces entreprises est un objectif convoite pour le developpement economique de la plupart des centres urbains. Cette recherche examine les facteurs de decision de localisation des entreprises de haute technologie dans la petite ville canadienne de Kamloops, en Colombie-Britannique. Des entrevues semi-structurees ont ete utilisees pour recueillir des informations aupres de 18 entreprises de haute technologie de Kamloops sur les raisons de leur implantation dans une petite ville. Les donnees ont ete analysees avec des techniques quantitatives et qualitatives. Les resultats indiquent qu'une combinaison de facteurs mous et durs a influe sur la decision de s'implanter a Kamloops avec des facteurs mous associes a des facteurs de qualite de vie dominant la decision. Les resultats de la recherche devraient etre precieux pour les decideurs politiques concernes par le developpement economique dans les petits centres urbains. Mots-cles : haute technologie ; developpement economique ; developpement urbain ; theorie de l'emplacement ; Canada
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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 | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| 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; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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".