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Article: Embracing open innovation
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- Research Money
- Article date:
- October 10, 2007
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The future of Canadian innovation policy is likely to depend greatly on the findings of the Council of Canadian Academies, which is why the Council should pay close attention to the changing ways in which businesses innovate. There has been concern for some time that Canadian companies, generally, are innovation laggards, which would help explain our disappointing productivity performance. So the federal government has asked the Council to answer a series of tough questions to find out why.
The questions include: "How should the innovation performance of Canadian firms be assessed? How innovative are Canadian firms, and what do we know about their innovation performance at a national, ...