Canada must seize opportunity for jobs, exports in looming global market

By 2050, an estimated 6.3 billion people worldwide will be living in cities, compared to about 3.6 billion now. Making them liveable cities is one of the great global challenges for the next several decades and this will be a huge potential market for smart city technologies.
Canada's federal Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains, pictured in the Wellington Building on Parliament Hill for Power & Influence magazine.
TORONTO—Sometime ago, Andrew Grove, the entrepreneur who helped build Intel into one of the world’s most successful semiconductor manufacturers, warned against the “misplaced faith in the power of startups to create jobs.” Ottawa, please note. Startups, of course, are clearly important for...

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