David A Wolfe
Biographic Data
| ID | 120088 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David A Wolfe |
| GIVEN NAMES | David A |
| FAMILY NAME | Wolfe |
| SIGNATURE | WOLFE D A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1658-0903 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 58 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 251 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 57 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Transformative innovation policy and collaborative governance in regions and cities
This article examines how regional and local governance arrangements shape the implementation of transformative innovation policy. While national and supra-national jurisdictions lead in designing policies, success depends on the quality of governance at the regional scale. It argues that collaborative governance arrangements, underpinned by civic capital, are critical for reconciling supra-national and national policy directions with bottom-up, …
Policy Learning and Policy Development in Innovation Policy
This article argues that policy learning is essential for effective innovation policy. The ability to learn from past experiments in a reflexive fashion is a prerequisite for effective policy design. The article responds to the call for more applied research to compliment the theoretical framing of policy learning in the literature. Canada's Innovation Supercluster Initiative, introduced with great fanfare in 2017 and substantially revised in 202…
Sector connectors, specialists and scrappers
This article uses three cities in the same Canadian province (Ontario): Toronto, Ottawa and Waterloo, to examine how regions compete in high-technology markets. We find that regions use civic capital to leverage new, technological windows of opportunity, but they do so in very different ways. Tracing Toronto’s evolution from a marketing hub for foreign multinationals into a centre for entrepreneurship, we illustrate how weak ties and cross-sector…
Governance of Academies in England
School-based education in England has undergone significant changes since 2010, with a huge expansion of academies, schools outside local authority control, funded directly by central government.Academies and local authority (LA) maintained schools are subject to different legislative and regulatory frameworks.This paper focuses on the governance of LA maintained schools, single academy trusts (SATs) and schools that are part of multi-academy tru…
New Path Development in a Semi-peripheral Auto Region
The automotive industry is facing disruptive trends and great uncertainty. The path forward for automotive jurisdictions is uncertain in terms of how automakers will allocate the production of new connected and autonomous vehicles (C/AVs). The introduction of C/AV technologies creates high levels of uncertainty both for individual firms and regional innovation systems (RISs). The intersection of established production competencies with emerging d…
Urban governance and civic capital
This article argues that the concept of civic capital affords considerable insight into systems of urban economic development, usefully bridging gaps in both institution-centric and social capital approaches. While the concept has been applied in the literature on urban governance and economic development, its use has been fragmentary and has not seen broad engagement. This review of the state of the literature situates the concept of civic capit…
Localization of global networks
The current wave of technological transformation is altering dynamics between the global and local scales. This transformation affects the dynamic linkages between multinational enterprises (MNEs) and the host economies in which they invest. This article examines how MNEs in leading technology sectors are re-evaluating their relationship to Toronto’s innovation economy. It employs elements of three conceptual approaches on global production netwo…
Rooted in place
In the media, Norway, California, and Québec are widely acknowledged as innovative leaders in transportation electrification. Yet, what does leadership mean and how did these jurisdictions achieve it? We contend that leadership reflects both intentional forethought through early, experimental and innovative policy to promote electric vehicles and the on-the-ground successful outcomes of these policies. All three jurisdictions have embarked on dif…
Automotive regions in transition
The advent of 'connected and automated vehicles' (C/AV) is posing substantial transformation challenges for traditional automotive regions across the world. This article seeks to examine both conceptually and empirically how automotive regions reconfigure their industrial and support structures to promote new path development in the C/AV field. Drawing on recent conceptual advances at the intersection of evolutionary economic geography and innova…
Entrepreneurs and cluster evolution
Interest in information and communication technology (ICT) clusters has long been sustained by the power of emerging technologies to reinvent regional or local economies. Prior research has identified the structural conditions under which clusters form, decline or evolve, but much less is known about the agents responsible for cluster change. This paper examines the evolution of the Toronto ICT cluster from a location for foreign multinational fi…
Growing Urban Economies
Challenges of Coordination
Policies for the southern Ontario automotive cluster support multiple collaborative research projects designed for the application of enabling technologies. However, these initiatives cater to a small percentage of highly innovative automotive suppliers and exclude much of the traditional manufacturing base. This stands in contrast to automotive clusters in Detroit, MI; the West Midlands, United Kingdom; and Baden-Württemberg, Germany, where appl…
Importance of gender and attitudes about violence in the relationship between exposure to interparental violence and the perpetration of teen dating violence
Governing regional economic development
Regional development policy offers a fascinating window on the interplay between the spatial distribution of economic activity and the interaction across multiple levels of government. Canada provides a compelling case to examine the theory and practice of regional development due to the diverse nature of its economy, the decentralised nature of its federation and more than five decades of federal policy activism. This article explores Canada’s s…
Disorders of Childhood and Adolescence
We provide an overview of mental disorders of childhood and adolescence and key issues related to this topic. We first discuss the significance of mental health problems in youth and the role of multiple interacting influences in shaping adaptive and maladaptive patterns of behavior. This is followed by a general overview of childhood disorders and related conditions as defined by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders–Fourth E…
Observations of Adolescent Peer Group Interactions as a Function of Within‐ and Between‐Group Centrality Status
Observations of adolescent ( n = 258; M age = 15.45) peer group triads ( n = 86) were analyzed to identify conversation and interaction styles as a function of within‐group and between‐group centrality status. Group members' discussions about hypothetical dilemmas were coded for agreements, disagreements, commands, and opinions. Interactions during a hypothetical decision were rated for openness, dominance, aggression, and prosocial behavior. Hie…
Abnormal Child Psychology
Estimating the Prevalence of Anxiety and Mood Disorders in an Adolescent General Population
La Cuarta R
This paper presents a school-based primary prevention program (The Fourth R) to prevent adolescent dating violence, and related risk behaviors. The cornerstone of The Fourth R is a 21-lesson skillbased curriculum delivered by teachers who receive specialized training, that promotes healthy relationships, and targets violence, high-risk sexual behavior, and substance use among adolescents. The Fourth R was evaluated in a cluster randomized trial i…
Impact of Sexual Harassment Victimization by Peers on Subsequent Adolescent Victimization and Adjustment
A School-Based Program to Prevent Adolescent Dating Violence
Child Maltreatment, Bullying, Gender-Based Harassment, and Adolescent Dating Violence
Learning to relate to others begins at birth and carries forward to new relationships, which is why child maltreatment and exposure to intimate partner violence have emerged as powerful risk factors for future coercive and hostile relationship patterns. Although not inevitable, it is more likely that children who are victims of maltreatment will carry forward these behavior patterns into adolescence and adulthood, thus perpetuating bullying and h…
Understanding the Association Between Maltreatment History and Adolescent Risk Behavior by Examining Popularity Motivations and Peer Group Control
Do Clusters Make a Difference? Defining and Assessing their Economic Performance
Spencer G. M., Vinodrai T., Gertler M. S. and Wolfe D. A. Do clusters make a difference? Defining and assessing their economic performance, Regional Studies. This paper contributes to the literature on cluster dynamics by developing a new methodology for identifying clusters that is not dependent on United States-based definitions. This methodology is used to test if the geographical clustering of economic activities leads to superior industrial …
The capacity to innovate
The capacity to innovate: Cluster policy and management in the biotechnology sector." Regional Studies, 56(2), pp. 351–352
Clusters from the Inside and Out
This paper surveys some of the current methodologies employed to analyse cluster development, as well as some of the key themes emerging from both the analytical and prescriptive literature noted above. It uses this survey as the context in which to present a synthesis of the initial findings of the current national study of industrial clusters in Canada, conducted by the Innovation Systems Research Network. The national study comprises 26 cases …
Local social knowledge management
No place like home? The embeddedness of innovation in a regional economy
Two views have come to dominate the debate on the globalization of innovation in the emerging knowledge-based economy. The first contends that globalization reduces the significance of the home base as the primary site for innovation, as firms increasingly source and apply their innovations on a global basis. The second view as articulated in the innovation systems approach contends that the institutionally embedded nature of the innovation proce…
Do Clusters Make a Difference? Defining and Assessing their Economic Performance
Spencer G. M., Vinodrai T., Gertler M. S. and Wolfe D. A. Do clusters make a difference? Defining and assessing their economic performance, Regional Studies. This paper contributes to the literature on cluster dynamics by developing a new methodology for identifying clusters that is not dependent on United States-based definitions. This methodology is used to test if the geographical clustering of economic activities leads to superior industrial …
Knowledge, Innovation and Institutions
Bramwell A., Nelles J. and Wolfe D. A. Knowledge, innovation and institutions: global and local dimensions of the ICT cluster in Waterloo, Canada, Regional Studies. This paper presents research findings on the information and communication technology (ICT) cluster in Waterloo, Ontario. Cluster dynamics in Canada do not conform to some of the key assumptions in the literature on clusters that emphasize the importance of local intra-cluster dynamic…
Emerging Strategies in the Prevention of Domestic Violence
Responses to domestic violence have focused, to date, primarily on intervention after the problem has already been identified and harm has occurred. There are, however, new domestic violence prevention strategies emerging, and prevention approaches from the public health field can serve as models for further development of these strategies. This article describes two such models. The first involves public health campaigns that identify and addres…
Relational Aggression in Peer and Dating Relationships
We examined the contribution of relational aggression in adolescents’ peer and dating relationships to their psychological and behavioral adjustment. In the Fall and again four months later, 1279 (646 female) grade 9 students reported on relational aggression perpetration and victimization in their romantic and peer relationships, depression/anxiety symptoms (psychological adjustment) and delinquency (behavioral adjustment). Using hierarchical re…
Governing regional economic development
Regional development policy offers a fascinating window on the interplay between the spatial distribution of economic activity and the interaction across multiple levels of government. Canada provides a compelling case to examine the theory and practice of regional development due to the diverse nature of its economy, the decentralised nature of its federation and more than five decades of federal policy activism. This article explores Canada’s s…
The impact of police charges in incidents of wife abuse
Entrepreneurs and cluster evolution
Interest in information and communication technology (ICT) clusters has long been sustained by the power of emerging technologies to reinvent regional or local economies. Prior research has identified the structural conditions under which clusters form, decline or evolve, but much less is known about the agents responsible for cluster change. This paper examines the evolution of the Toronto ICT cluster from a location for foreign multinational fi…
Child Maltreatment, Bullying, Gender-Based Harassment, and Adolescent Dating Violence
Learning to relate to others begins at birth and carries forward to new relationships, which is why child maltreatment and exposure to intimate partner violence have emerged as powerful risk factors for future coercive and hostile relationship patterns. Although not inevitable, it is more likely that children who are victims of maltreatment will carry forward these behavior patterns into adolescence and adulthood, thus perpetuating bullying and h…
The Canadian state in comparative perspective
Les débats récents sur la nature de l'Etat dans les sociétés capitalistes ont eu tendance à s'organiser autour de l'opposition entre explications centrées sur l'Etat et celles centrées sur la société. Je tente ici de dépasser cette dichotomie, en analysant l'Etat canadien à la lumière de l'intersection entre l'équilibre changeant des forces politiques au sein de la société canadienne, et l'ensemble des institutions qui composent l'Etat. Je situe …
Alternatives to Violence
A Call for Action Violence in the Lives of Children, Youth and Families Responding to Violence Establishing a Commitment to Violence Prevention Approaching Solutions Youth as Resources A Developmental Model of Relationship Violence and Abuse Applying the Principles Core Ingredients of Successful Prevention Programs The Youth Relationships Project
The Crisis in Advanced Capitalism
The stagflation and economic decline of the 1970s have blossomed into a major crisis of the global economy in the present decade. What first appeared as an interruption of the long wave of post-war economic expansion is now recognized for what it truly is - a crisis of capitalist accumulation
Observations of Adolescent Peer Group Interactions as a Function of Within‐ and Between‐Group Centrality Status
Observations of adolescent ( n = 258; M age = 15.45) peer group triads ( n = 86) were analyzed to identify conversation and interaction styles as a function of within‐group and between‐group centrality status. Group members' discussions about hypothetical dilemmas were coded for agreements, disagreements, commands, and opinions. Interactions during a hypothetical decision were rated for openness, dominance, aggression, and prosocial behavior. Hie…
Understanding the Association Between Maltreatment History and Adolescent Risk Behavior by Examining Popularity Motivations and Peer Group Control
New Technology and Training
This paper examines the implications of new programmable technology for the future skill requirements of the labor force and the adequacy of existing training policies in Canada. Following the Economic Council of Canada's finding that there is little evidence of major skills development on the part of Canadian industry, this paper examines other alternatives. The training systems of Japan, West Germany and Sweden are surveyed and the major lesson…
Governance of Academies in England
School-based education in England has undergone significant changes since 2010, with a huge expansion of academies, schools outside local authority control, funded directly by central government.Academies and local authority (LA) maintained schools are subject to different legislative and regulatory frameworks.This paper focuses on the governance of LA maintained schools, single academy trusts (SATs) and schools that are part of multi-academy tru…
Dominance and Dependency
New Path Development in a Semi-peripheral Auto Region
The automotive industry is facing disruptive trends and great uncertainty. The path forward for automotive jurisdictions is uncertain in terms of how automakers will allocate the production of new connected and autonomous vehicles (C/AVs). The introduction of C/AV technologies creates high levels of uncertainty both for individual firms and regional innovation systems (RISs). The intersection of established production competencies with emerging d…
Urban governance and civic capital
This article argues that the concept of civic capital affords considerable insight into systems of urban economic development, usefully bridging gaps in both institution-centric and social capital approaches. While the concept has been applied in the literature on urban governance and economic development, its use has been fragmentary and has not seen broad engagement. This review of the state of the literature situates the concept of civic capit…
Capitalist Crisis and Marxist Theory
Sector connectors, specialists and scrappers
This article uses three cities in the same Canadian province (Ontario): Toronto, Ottawa and Waterloo, to examine how regions compete in high-technology markets. We find that regions use civic capital to leverage new, technological windows of opportunity, but they do so in very different ways. Tracing Toronto’s evolution from a marketing hub for foreign multinationals into a centre for entrepreneurship, we illustrate how weak ties and cross-sector…
Localization of global networks
The current wave of technological transformation is altering dynamics between the global and local scales. This transformation affects the dynamic linkages between multinational enterprises (MNEs) and the host economies in which they invest. This article examines how MNEs in leading technology sectors are re-evaluating their relationship to Toronto’s innovation economy. It employs elements of three conceptual approaches on global production netwo…
Rooted in place
In the media, Norway, California, and Québec are widely acknowledged as innovative leaders in transportation electrification. Yet, what does leadership mean and how did these jurisdictions achieve it? We contend that leadership reflects both intentional forethought through early, experimental and innovative policy to promote electric vehicles and the on-the-ground successful outcomes of these policies. All three jurisdictions have embarked on dif…
Dominance and Dependency
The Politics and Management of Canadian Economic PolicyRichard W. Phidd and G. Bruce Doern Toronto
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The Crisis in Advanced Capitalism
The stagflation and economic decline of the 1970s have blossomed into a major crisis of the global economy in the present decade. What first appeared as an interruption of the long wave of post-war economic expansion is now recognized for what it truly is - a crisis of capitalist accumulation
The Economic Prerequisite to Democracy
Children of battered women
Child-abusive parents
Child-abusive parents
The impact of police charges in incidents of wife abuse
Similarities in behavioral and social maladjustment among child victims and witnesses to family violence
This study examines the impact of exposure to family violence on school-aged boys. Boys who had witnessed violence between their parents were compared to boys who had been abused by their parents. The findings indicate that boys exposed to violence had a pattern of adjustment problems similar to those of abused boys and significantly different in severity and type from those of a community comparison group
Capitalist Crisis and Marxist Theory
Intelligence and Emotional/Behavioral Factors as Correlates of Achievement in Child Psychiatric Inpatients
This study investigated the extent to which IQ and emotional/behavioral factors were related to tested academic achievement in 56 child psychiatric inpatients. The first part of the study replicated and extended previous research; WISC—R IQs were highly correlated with tested achievement, Verbal IQs being more highly correlated with achievement than were Performance or Full Scale IQs. In the second part of the study which examined the relationshi…
The Canadian state in comparative perspective
Les débats récents sur la nature de l'Etat dans les sociétés capitalistes ont eu tendance à s'organiser autour de l'opposition entre explications centrées sur l'Etat et celles centrées sur la société. Je tente ici de dépasser cette dichotomie, en analysant l'Etat canadien à la lumière de l'intersection entre l'équilibre changeant des forces politiques au sein de la société canadienne, et l'ensemble des institutions qui composent l'Etat. Je situe …
New Technology and Training
This paper examines the implications of new programmable technology for the future skill requirements of the labor force and the adequacy of existing training policies in Canada. Following the Economic Council of Canada's finding that there is little evidence of major skills development on the part of Canadian industry, this paper examines other alternatives. The training systems of Japan, West Germany and Sweden are surveyed and the major lesson…
Children of Battered Women
Definition and Scope of the Problem Family Violence and Children's Development Understanding the Impact of Traumatic Events in the Lives of Children Issues in Assessment and Intervention Strategies Implications for Children's Services
The Effects of Child Abuse and Neglect
Starr, MacLean, Keating, Life Span Developmental Outcomes of Child Maltreatment. Egeland, A Longitudinal Study of High Risk Families: Issues and Findings. Herrenkohl, Herrenkohl, Wu, The Developmental Consequences of Child Abuse: The Lehigh Longitudinal Study. Vietze, O'Connor, Sherrod, Altemeier, The Early Screening Project. Zuravin, Research Definitions of Child Physical Abuse and Neglect: Current Problems. Black, Longitudinal Studies in Child …
The measurement of maltreatment
Alternatives to Violence
A Call for Action Violence in the Lives of Children, Youth and Families Responding to Violence Establishing a Commitment to Violence Prevention Approaching Solutions Youth as Resources A Developmental Model of Relationship Violence and Abuse Applying the Principles Core Ingredients of Successful Prevention Programs The Youth Relationships Project
Regional innovation policy
Emerging Strategies in the Prevention of Domestic Violence
Responses to domestic violence have focused, to date, primarily on intervention after the problem has already been identified and harm has occurred. There are, however, new domestic violence prevention strategies emerging, and prevention approaches from the public health field can serve as models for further development of these strategies. This article describes two such models. The first involves public health campaigns that identify and addres…
No place like home? The embeddedness of innovation in a regional economy
Two views have come to dominate the debate on the globalization of innovation in the emerging knowledge-based economy. The first contends that globalization reduces the significance of the home base as the primary site for innovation, as firms increasingly source and apply their innovations on a global basis. The second view as articulated in the innovation systems approach contends that the institutionally embedded nature of the innovation proce…
Child Maltreatment
Development and validation of the Conflict in Adolescent Dating Relationships Inventory.
Four studies examined the Conflict in Adolescent Dating Relationships Inventory (CADRI), a measure of abusive behavior among adolescent dating partners. Exploratory factor analysis was used to refine items based on high school participants with dating experience (N = 393; 49% female). Confirmatory factor analysis was used to derive and cross-validate the factor structure with participants from 10 high schools (N = 1,019, 55% female; ages 14-16). …
Globalization and Economic Restructuring in Ontario
Recent contributions suggest that the current period is characterized by a paradoxical consequence of globalization in which the ever greater integration of national and regional economies into the global one accentuates, rather than minimizes, the significance of the local context for innovative activities. This paper sketches out the implications of this argument by drawing on the case of Ontario, Canada's largest province and industrial heartl…
Child neglect
Dating violence prevention with at-risk youth
This study evaluated a community-based intervention to help at-risk teens develop healthy, nonabusive relationships with dating partners. Participants were 158 14-16-year-olds with histories of child maltreatment who were randomly assigned to a preventive intervention group or a no-treatment control group. They completed measures of abuse and victimization with dating partners, emotional distress, and healthy relationship skills at bimonthly inte…
Psychology (27 works) · Political science (20 works) · Developmental psychology (19 works) · Medicine (19 works) · Poison control (19 works) · Clinical Psychology (18 works) · Intimate Partner and Family Violence (17 works) · Suicide prevention (17 works) · Economics (16 works) · Business (15 works)