ABSTRACT
HOW CAN RURAL AREAS and small towns compete in the high-tech, global economy when the majority of the world's talented innovators as well as their customers reside in metropolitan areas? How can young people who grow up in remote, low-density places that specialize in natural resource industries (Castle 1991) learn how to invent the next new thing? This paper is about how we learn, and how learning in a place can depend on population size, variety, or culture.
