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Richard C. Owens

Richard C. Owens is a Senior Munk Fellow with the Macdonald-Laurier Institute; adjunct professor at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, where he has taught several courses in innovation law; an intellectual property and technology lawyer; past-chair of the University of Toronto Innovations Foundation and past executive director of the Centre for Innovation Law and Policy at the University of Toronto.

Real innovation required

Opinion | BY RICHARD C. OWENS | November 11, 2019
Canadian innovation policy is in tatters. Renewing it should be a priority for the new government. It is just corporate welfare dressed up in an emperor’s shiny new drag. Politically useful, yes, but not sound policy; cost without benefit. Photograph courtesy of Pixabay
Opinion | BY RICHARD C. OWENS | November 11, 2019
Opinion | BY RICHARD C. OWENS | November 11, 2019
Canadian innovation policy is in tatters. Renewing it should be a priority for the new government. It is just corporate welfare dressed up in an emperor’s shiny new drag. Politically useful, yes, but not sound policy; cost without benefit. Photograph courtesy of Pixabay
Opinion | BY RICHARD C. OWENS | November 11, 2019
Canadian innovation policy is in tatters. Renewing it should be a priority for the new government. It is just corporate welfare dressed up in an emperor’s shiny new drag. Politically useful, yes, but not sound policy; cost without benefit. Photograph courtesy of Pixabay
Opinion | BY RICHARD C. OWENS | November 11, 2019
Opinion | BY RICHARD C. OWENS | November 11, 2019
Canadian innovation policy is in tatters. Renewing it should be a priority for the new government. It is just corporate welfare dressed up in an emperor’s shiny new drag. Politically useful, yes, but not sound policy; cost without benefit. Photograph courtesy of Pixabay