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Q&A | What the heck is HERC, with Mark Holland

Mark Holland

‘We’re putting wheels on it right now,’ says Health Minister Mark Holland of Health Emergency Readiness Canada, newly launched to co-ordinate efforts ‘to build up life sciences capacity in advance of a pandemic.’

It’s a Brit problem, it’s a Canadian problem

A recent British study argues that one of the top issues for U.K. innovation and industrial policy is the early sale of promising new science and tech firms to overseas-based corporations, and the truncation of further growth at home. This is our challenge, too.