Intellectual capital is Canada’s most important natural resource

Canada is often a leader in initiating creative programs for enabling innovation and commercialization, but it does not always stay the course long enough to benefit from their outcomes and economic benefits.

The newer generation of Networks of Centres of Excellence funded after 2014 have already shown positive impacts, such as supporting the creation of nascent companies that have secured millions of dollars in foreign capital and industry partnerships through made-in-Canada health technologies. Pexels photograph by Chokniti Khongchum

Opinion

BY KARIMAH ES SABAR

February 3, 2021

COVID-19 is taxing the world’s health-care systems like never before, and Canada is no exception. During this challenging time, one of the many lessons being relearned is that we need to keep mobilizing our intellectual capital so that we can continue to develop innovative products and solutions t...

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