Dan Breznitz was the inaugural winner of the $60K Balsillie Prize for Public Policy in 2021. The University of Toronto political science professor took the top honours for his book Innovation in Real Places: Strategies for Prosperity in an Unforgiving World.  "I basically argue in the book that there are multiple ways in which to reach innovation-based local prosperity," Breznitz told Ideas host Nahlah Ayed. "Most of them are not even talked about because we live in a myth about a world in which there's only one way in which to reach innovation-based prosperity."

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