The federal government has released a list of guidelines for universities and research institutions as the result of a working group convened earlier this summer.
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The non-profit Evidence for Democracy has released a framework to judge government policies based on the level of transparency around evidence.
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Chris Albinson, the new CEO of Waterloo-based Communitech, says he sees the same process underway in Silicon Valley today that took place in Boston in the late 1990s — and the Waterloo Region is well-placed to become the technology hub to replace it.
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A recent IEA report indicates that it will be critical to develop new clean technology in the next decade, writes Sebastian Leck, Research Money’s managing editor.
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Research Money spoke to Jean-Eric Paquet, the director general of the European Commission’s Research and Innovation directorate, along with Roseann O’Reilly Runte, the president and CEO of the Canada Foundation for Innovation, on how COVID-19 will affect research infrastructure and how those lessons might apply to future crises.
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Too often, the products of science and research done within Canada’s borders ends up being sold or commercialized elsewhere. But there’s been a strong effort in the last few months to attempt to reverse the decades-long trend, writes Research Money’s managing editor Sebastian Leck.
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The 2021 federal budget undoubtedly provided large and much-needed investments to Canadian science and technology. However, the federal government needs to better articulate its industrial policies and strategy, writes Research Money managing editor Sebastian Leck.
Read MoreBC budget includes $500 million for strategic investment fund to retain IP in the province
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BC Premier John Horgan said his government wants to stem the “flow of brain power out of British Columbia” with an investment fund that provides $500 million to small- and medium-size businesses with the potential for high growth.
Read MoreQ&A: Evidence for Democracy’s Rachael Maxwell on Budget 2021 and listening to the science
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Rachael Maxwell, the new executive director of Evidence for Democracy (E4D), recently released an analysis of the federal budget, which noted promising investments in sectors like quantum tech and genomics but argued that the country needs a national science strategy. Maxwell spoke to Research Money this week about the federal budget, why relationships are most important in developing evidence-based policies, and how she views her organization’s role in the science ecosystem.
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A group of 19 health sciences organizations and associations asked for a “coherent” life sciences strategy and increased collaboration this Monday in an open letter addressed to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The letter follows a $415-million federal investment into a partnership with French pharmaceutical manufacturer Sanofi to build an influenza vaccine manufacturing facility in Toronto.
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