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- But no one, it seems, has actually calculated what it would take to make Canada a world leader in innovation.
- What this paper from the three Innovation, Science and Economic Development analysts most importantly underlines is both the governmental failure to realistically acknowledge the big transitions we face, but also that, in the absence of a serious growth strategy going forward, we face a future of stagnation and the risk of a major brain and investment drain pursuit of greater opportunity elsewhere. That’s surely not what we want.
- What this paper from the three Innovation, Science and Economic Development analysts most importantly underlines is both the governmental failure to realistically acknowledge the big transitions we face, but also that, in the absence of a serious growth strategy going forward, we face a future of stagnation and the risk of a major brain and investment drain pursuit of greater opportunity elsewhere. That’s surely not what we want.
- We have underinvested in intangible and tangible assets, been slow to recognize the implications of a digital world, and neglected the importance of building up Canadian companies with their own intellectual property.
- We have underinvested in intangible and tangible assets, been slow to recognize the implications of a digital world, and neglected the importance of building up Canadian companies with their own intellectual property.
- Some degree of long-term public equity may be the only answer if we want to ensure that a reasonable share of our mining sector is Canadian-owned, and that younger Canadian companies don’t have to feel that selling is their only option.
- Some degree of long-term public equity may be the only answer if we want to ensure that a reasonable share of our mining sector is Canadian-owned, and that younger Canadian companies don’t have to feel that selling is their only option.
- Federal policy, which is more transactional than strategic, is turning Canada into a branch plant economy—a derivative economy in which we help foreign corporations grow and profit in exchange for jobs, while making us dependent on maintaining the goodwill of foreign investors to keep those jobs.
- Federal policy, which is more transactional than strategic, is turning Canada into a branch plant economy—a derivative economy in which we help foreign corporations grow and profit in exchange for jobs, while making us dependent on maintaining the goodwill of foreign investors to keep those jobs.
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