Organization: Department of Finance

Q&A: Finance Canada’s Dan Breznitz on his prescription for innovation in Canada

Economist Dan Breznitz’s fingerprints are all over Budget 2022, especially the creation of a new Canadian Innovation and Investment Agency. Research Money spoke to Breznitz after the release of the federal budget to ask him about his most recent book, Innovation in Real Places: Strategies for Prosperity in an Unforgiving World.

AUCC calls for targeted funding increases

Canada’s largest organization representing universities is recommending a series of modest budget increases in the next Budget for the granting councils, international collaboration internships and international education marketing. In its pre-Budget submission to the Department of Finance, the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC) recommends: $110 million to “strengthen core discovery research programs”…

Government consulting on $400 million committed to VC

The federal government has launched a consultation process to determine the best ways to spend the $400 million it committed in the last Budget to stimulate the venture capital industry. Respondents have until July 27th to submit comments and suggestions to the Department of Finance on how the government can contribute to the development of…