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Think of these acquisitions as a warm-up for bigger things to come. Let's see what these lucky entrepreneurs do with their money inside Canada.

What's more shameful is that RIM didn't produce millionaire entrepreneurs that went on and created new companies. That could have happened and should have happened, but it hasn't happened.

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A positive side benefit has been significant endowments and support of basic scientific research.

e.g. http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/

However, it's even better if RIM had created an ecology of entrepreneurship that could endow dozens of such institutes...

RIM didn't create an ecology of entrepreneurship because it already existed in one. It was part of the start-up community that has come out of the University of Waterloo.

Fair point, but it was probably the biggest success story out of the area and as such was the flagship. (Responsibility to give back and all that.)

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