The changing nature of knowledge production and international competition and collaboration will affect the organization, working relationships, educational strategies and societal roles and expectations that we attribute to our universities as well as how our educational system prepares its students for the workplace, for citizenship and for post secondary education...... The core premise of this paper is that the key capacity needed to ensure that a region will be able to compete effectively in a global marketplace is the development of a readily accessible, high quality system of education from the primary grades through advanced education and the availability of strong locally accessible community of excellent researchers.