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• Title: Is Canada Really All That Bad at Innovation?: A Tale of Two Industries (Company Overview)
• Author : International Productivity Monitor
• Release Date : January 22, 2009
• Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 76 KB

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THE COUNCIL OF CANADIAN ACADEMIES (CCA) is rendering an invaluable service to the Canadian public. Over a very short period, the CCA has produced several of the most penetrating and useful analyses of the state of Canadian research and innovation to have appeared in a very long time. The most recent report, entitled Innovation and Business Strategy: Why Canada Falls Short and released on April 29, 2009 by the Expert Panel on Business Innovation in Canada, is certainly among them. Returning to Canada three years ago, after many years away, I was dismayed at how far general political and public awareness of the vital importance of research and innovation had deteriorated, and how, despite several new and long overdue initiatives, Canadians are still failing to respond positively to many of their chronic industrial challenges. The 'crisis' we now face may have been precipitated by financial adventurism elsewhere, but it has been brewing in our midst for decades. Responsibility for these failures has been laid at many doorsteps. The university system in particular (unfairly in my view but with its own connivance to be sure) has often been singled out for its supposed underperformance in transferring new knowledge to the market. Government has been blamed for too much red tape on the one hand and too little intervention on the other. Business has been blamed for timidity and reluctance to invest. Organized labor has been blamed for preserving structural obstacles to change. The list goes on and on, and, indeed, none of the accused is entirely blameless.

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