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Guest column: Rebooting Canada’s broken innovation system
Advertisement 1 • • Article content By: Andrea Nemtin and Tim Draimin The most common themes about Canada’s growth-oriented innovation system are that it is unwieldy, expensive and underperforming. Article content The World Intellectual Property Organization 2023 report notes that Canada’s innovation inputs dramatically exceed its outputs. But these critiques miss the mark.
Wicked ecological and social challenges force us to rethink innovation policy
By Tim Draimin Senior Advisor at the McConnell Foundation and former Executive Director of Social Innovation Generation (SiG) National Published on January 23, 2019 Humankind has always tended to focus on the upsides of new discoveries and innovations, but the past year has put our optimism to the test. Social media was exploited to undermine US democracy and to incite sectarian violence against Myanmar’s Rohingya.
Building a Canadian Social Finance Fund
On a hope-filled day in September 2015, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau joined 150 world leaders in New York for the proclamation of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals—the global action plan to reach a sustainable and equitable future by 2030. Today, the world is different.
Inclusive innovation policy struggles to connect the dots
Note: This article was originally published on the Re$earch Money on January 18, 2017. It has been cross-posted with permission. Over the past 20 years, the Canadian public’s understanding of a successful innovation ecosystem has evolved enormously to include social, technology, science, engineering, mathematics, arts and business innovation.
How Ottawa can get its social innovation act together
Governor General David Johnston has issued a call to build a smarter, more caring nation, and Canadians are responding. Although they’re not synonymous, ‘smart’ and ‘caring’ still go hand in hand. As Canada faces increasingly complex social, ecological and economic problems, there is an urgent need to find smarter ways to care and become more caring as we grow smarter.
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