Waterloo EDC Blog

In a recent article for the Harvard Business Review, famed business expert Richard Florida highlighted the important role talent-focused satellite offices – in mid-sized communities – now have for corporate location strategy.

Mid-sized communities aren’t going to replace big cities as the site of corporate HQs, but they do have unique competitive advantages. They can provide unique access to...

The University of Waterloo (UWaterloo) can claim Canada’s top computer science, engineering and mathematics programs, according to Maclean’s Magazine – Canada’s premier current affairs magazine. This result further cements the UWaterloo reputation as Canada’s top technology university.

This is the fifth edition in a new Waterloo EDC series called “5 Charts: Waterloo Versus” that compares our community with some of America’s top tech hubs. We’ve already matched up against Austin, Texas, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Columbus, Ohio and Salt Lake City, Utah. We will soon take on Phoenix, Arizona.

We often compare Waterloo’s exceptional tech credentials to other major cities in...

COVID-19 has changed a lot, but it isn’t likely to change where corporations locate their HQs.

At least, that’s what famed business expert Richard Florida had to say in a new article for the Harvard Business Review. The crux of his argument: the short-term effects of COVID are unlikely to undo the long-term trend of America’s largest companies keeping their corporate HQs in America’s largest...