01-23-2023, 09:57 PM
On the other hand, didn't Waterloo Region's latest tech wave start when RIM/BlackBerry laid off a bunch of staff circa 2010 who now had time on their hands (along with severance money) to finally launch that product that was sitting in their back pocket? Launching a tech start-up isn't necessarily has capital and/or land intensive as starting something like a blast furnace or a car company.