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Meric S Gertler is Professor of Geography and Planning, and Goldring Chair in Canadian Studies, at the University of Toronto, where he co-directs the Program on Globalization and Regional Innovation Systems at the Munk Centre for International Studies. His research is focused on the geography of industrial learning and knowledge circulation, the economies of city-regions, and the role of culture and creative activity in enhancing the innovative dynamism of urban economies in Canada, the US and Europe. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and currently serves as Vice-Dean, Graduate Education and Research in the Faculty of Arts and Science at U of T. Professor Gertler is co-director of a major research SSHRC-funded project on the ‘Social Dynamics of Local Economic Performance: Innovation and Creativity in City-Regions’. He has served as a consultant to many government agencies across Canada, in the United States, and in Europe. His recent publications include The Oxford Handbook of Economic Geography (with Gordon Clark and Maryann Feldman (OUP 2000) [paperback edition 2003, Chinese edition 2006], and Manufacturing Culture: The Institutional Geography of Industrial Practice (OUP 2004). He is associate editor of the Journal of Economic Geography and serves on the editorial boards of six inter