Author: Mark Henderson

Claude Ricks

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Claude Ricks has been appointed a managing partner of the Level 5 Strategy Group, Toronto, to head up its digital strategy and transformation group. Level 5 is a growth strategy consulting firm that encourages culture change to incent higher performance.  Ricks is one of the founders of the ATKearney change management practice and was COO…

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Ed Holder

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Ed Holder has been appointed a director of Certive Solutions Inc, Scottsdale, AZ  and Vancouver, a developer of software management products for the US healthcare industry. Holder served in the government of Stephen Harper as minister of state, science and technology, between May/14 and October/15. Prior to his junior Cabinet posting, he was a three-term…

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Anne Dawson

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Anne Dawson has been appointed chief of staff to Science minister Kirsty Duncan, effective this month. Dawson is a former reporter and past president of the Parliamentary Press Gallery and comes to the minister’s office from Armstrong Strategy Group where she was a senior associate for the past several months. She also co-founded and managed…

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Former adviser to White House Office of S&T Policy to speak at Univ Ottawa

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April 5 in Ottawa: Bromley Memorial Lecture featuring Kei Koizumi, former Assistant Director for Federal R&D and senior advisor to the director of the National Science and Technology Council, US White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). Koizumi is currently a visiting scholar in science policy at the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The…

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A RE$EARCH MONEY Q&A with Adam Holbrook

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Innovation has risen up the government’s priority ranking and will be a major thrust of the federal Budget when it is tabled March 22. Over the past year, several expert panels and councils have been preparing policy papers on fundamental science, innovation and economic competitiveness. On the other hand, the government is running annual deficits and plan to continue for several years to come. We asked Adam Holbrook, adjunct professor and associate director of the Centre for Policy Research on Science and Technology, Simon Fraser University, for his perspective on what needs to be done to make Canada more innovative and its use of research more effective.

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International review panel critical of CIHR management and flatlined funding levels

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The Canadian Institute of Health Research’s recent efforts to reform its underfunded grants competition process was a failure. That’s the sobering conclusion from an international review panel tasked with studying and addressing the issue. The International Peer Review Expert Panel Report found that chronic underfunding and CIHR’s attempt to deal with the issue, combined with other problems, created a ‘perfect storm” that led to a crisis in confidence throughout the research community.

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Canada’s regenerative medicine sector poised to soar with better funding and collaboration: report

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Canadian expertise and achievements in regenerative medicine (RM) could be at a turning point if strategic steps are taken to increase stable funding and achieve greater coordination among the many federal and provincial players. Those are the key observations of a report issued by the Council of Canadian Academies (CCA), which was based on a two-day workshop held last October to provide policy makers with pointers for growing the sector and realizing greater economic and health benefits.

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Alternative federal Budget released

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The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives has released its annual Alternative Federal Budget. Entitled High Stakes, Clear Choices. It arrives 10 days before Finance minister Bill Morneau tables the government’s own fiscal blueprint for the coming year.

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