Search Results for: Innovation
Bringing Innovation to Life: Innovation-Based Growth In Canadian Life Sciences
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Canada’s economic future will be driven by globally competitive companies working at the forefront of knowledge and technology. These companies are built on innovation and skills, cornerstones of economic growth and prosperity. Canada enjoys significant advantages in these areas, but must not be complacent as countries around the world are driving their own economic growth through significant investments in research, innovation and skills.
Date: Wednesday January 3, 2018
Getting Canada Back on Track after COVID-19 with a Comprehensive Innovation Plan
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...measures of innovation indicate that Canada is moving in the right direction. The Conference Board Innovation Index traditionally has given Canada a “D” in innovation. In 2021, it upgraded the...
Date: Wednesday February 23, 2022
Searching for Innovation? Look North!
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A year into the COVID-19 pandemic, Canada is looking for paths forward to build back better. After a year of invaluable lessons learned, what do we know? What do we want to strengthen? What are we willing to change? What are the assets and building blocks for a stronger future?
Date: Tuesday March 30, 2021
The Mother of Invention: Skills for Innovation in the Post-Pandemic World
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The COVID-19 pandemic has forced many workplaces to innovate rapidly in order to simply survive. But innovation is a critical component of our economic prosperity even during normal times. To be successful, Canada’s skills strategies must address skills for innovation across sectors — from solo entrepreneurs, to small and medium-sized businesses, to large corporations and even within government itself. While Canada has made significant efforts to foster a strong innovation economy, the pandemic has helped to reveal where these efforts have created strong foundations for success as well as areas where much remains to be done.
Date: Wednesday June 9, 2021
Growth, Innovation and the Organization of Science Policy in Canada
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...in innovation is not between government and no government, but about the right type of government involvement in support of innovations. The private sector should lead on innovation, but in...
Date: Monday September 12, 2022
Opinion: How COVID-19 innovation is leading to better health services for Canadians
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COVID-19 propelled our governments to develop and implement innovative and unprecedented programs to protect and support us throughout the pandemic. Health care accounts for 11.5 % of Canada’s total GDP, and with so many exciting technologies coming on stream and consumers embracing change - the possibilities for innovation are endless. Our new ways of thinking can benefit citizens for generations. This article shares observations, framed from our experiences supporting Ontario health leaders during the pandemic. Together we can leverage this moment to drive innovation and imagine the health systems we want for tomorrow.
Date: Monday August 23, 2021
Leading Innovation – Insights from Canadian Regions
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...what is needed at the micro level for greater innovation success. Leading Innovation seeks to uncover these on-the-ground experiences and help us set direction and action for a Canadian approach to innovation....
Date: Monday March 12, 2012
Canada’s Innovation Stars: Meet the 2018 Governor General’s Innovation Award laureates
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The innovation stars are out and shining over Canada as the Governor General’s Innovation Awards are handed out to six laureates and teams for 2018.
Date: Tuesday May 22, 2018
How Can Integrated Innovation Advance Well-being and Inclusive Growth?
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...the opportunity of the Review of Canada’s Innovation Policy to shape an innovation strategy that also supports new and scale-ready innovations that accelerate Canadians’ wellbeing? On May 18th, 2016, the...
Date: Thursday September 8, 2016
Competitiveness: Canada leads in AI, but lags in innovation, skills and capital
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...the benefit of technological change and innovation” across the economy that way, Sabia said. Businesses need urgently to cultivate a culture of innovation within their organizations, he said. “It requires...
Date: Tuesday April 25, 2017
Public Service Innovation and Leadership During COVID-19: What Can We Learn?
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...examined these case studies to better understand why innovation can be easier during crises and some of the factors that should be nurtured to allow an innovation culture in public...
Date: Thursday June 3, 2021
How Canada can create a culture of innovation
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Innovation gap is a serious drag on economic growth Marty Reed, President and CEO of Evok Innovations, says Canadian entrepreneurs lack intensity. By Kent Aitken Many speakers at last week’s...
Date: Thursday October 20, 2016
David Johnston on innovation culture
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...innovation going on in the country, and what he considered to be an absent business culture. “While Canadians are innovative, we lack a culture of innovation in Canada.” He said...
Date: Wednesday October 19, 2016
About Canada’s Innovation Stars
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The Public Policy Forum is pleased to join its partners to celebrate the 2017 winners of the Governor General’s Innovation Awards. Established in 2016, the awards celebrate excellence in innovation,...
Date: Tuesday May 23, 2017
Innovation in Post-Secondary Education
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Canada’s post-secondary institutions are well positioned for the future, thanks to innovative approaches and a willingness to use technological advances in education. COVID-19 has challenged these institutions, but they have showed adaptability under pressure by accelerating their adoption of innovations. However, some challenges predate the pandemic such as better inclusion of equity-seeking groups in higher education. Better funding models and greater flexibility can build greater resilience and agility into the system while addressing long-standing challenges and inequities.
Date: Wednesday June 2, 2021