WI the Mid-Canada Development Corridor was realized?

Waterloo is in a conurbation of about half a million and is as much a tech centre as a university town. (Weird how the big university ended up in Waterloo rather than Cambridge...)

But the tech center is there directly because of the university, isn't it? And Waterloo "proper" is only 100,000 or so. How much of that population is growth because of the tech industry because of the university?

Madison, WI is 250,000 people and the state capital and I think it's still arguably a college town.
 
Waterloo is in a conurbation of about half a million and is as much a tech centre as a university town. (Weird how the big university ended up in Waterloo rather than Cambridge...)

Cambridge didn't exist yet when U of Waterloo was founded.
 
But the tech center is there directly because of the university, isn't it? And Waterloo "proper" is only 100,000 or so. How much of that population is growth because of the tech industry because of the university?

Madison, WI is 250,000 people and the state capital and I think it's still arguably a college town.

They feed off each other. Along with the decent size banking sector. It's sort of Canada's mini-silicon valley. (And Kitchener has a decent manufacturing base, the two basically being one city. Then Cambridge is also a manufacturing town. Nearby Guelph is likewise a manufacturing centre, though it also includes a decent sized university.)
 
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