With more support Canada’s comprehensive and smaller universities will drive big innovation

We must support all universities with better access to research funding so that professors across Canada can train our next generation of innovators and strengthen our communities.

As the federal government looks to elevate our innovation capacity and increase the proportion of Canadians with university diplomas, Canada must better leverage the research and training contribution of all its universities.Photograph courtesy of Nathalie St-Pierre of UQAM

Opinion

BY JOHANNE JEAN AND LYNE SAUVAGEAU

May 6, 2019

A strong innovation culture is the foundation of successful modern societies driving our economic growth and our standard of living. A persistent national challenge remains. Canada is consistently ranked as a mid-level innovator. More recently we have fallen further behind the world’s most innova...

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