Details are beginning to emerge on cuts to R&D in the April 11 Ontario budget: $1 million for the Mowat Centre (closing), the Institute for Competitiveness & Prosperity (closing) and the province’s Health System Research Fund (clawed back). R$ will investigate these and other cuts further. – Mowat Centre Canada and Japan have signed two…
Organization: Institute for Competitiveness and Prosperity
Ontario could benefit from network of Technology Innovation Centres modelled on Fraunhofer: research paper
Emulating the Fraunhofer Society’s network of Technology Innovation Centres (TICs) will assist Ontario companies with improving their commercialization and innovation outcomes, argues the latest working paper by the Institute for Competitiveness and Prosperity (IC&P).
Canada improves competitiveness ranking
Canada has dramatically improved its global competitiveness ranking from #13 in 2007 to #9 in 2009, according to the World Economic Forum, a Swiss-based not-for-profit foundation aimed at improving corporate governance. The Forum now ranks Canada ahead of the UK, Korea and Hong Kong, based primarily on performance in sub-indexes such as flexibility of labour…