Canada’s superclusters: a step in the right direction—but will we seize the opportunity?

Yet significant challenges and hurdles remain if the initiative is to truly move the innovation needle in this country.

Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains, pictured May 7, 2018, at an event on the Hill. The minister's Superclusters Initiative, on its face, meets many of these recommendations. That makes it an important step in the right direction. But success hinges on cluster partners actually delivering on their shared mandate, writes Paul Preston. The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

Opinion

BY PAUL PRESTON

October 1, 2018

The Innovation Canada's $950-million Superclusters Initiative gives Canada an opportunity to improve its longstanding poor innovation performance. By taking a more direct funding approach and putting the central focus on firm-led innovation, the superclusters initiative seeks to deliver economic gro...

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