Canada’s innovation strategy would benefit from an emphasis on the building businesses

The road to opportunity is ahead, and it requires a greater degree of practical input and engagement from experienced business minds in order to reach its full potential.
Canada’s innovation strategy would benefit from a greater emphasis on the commercialization stage, with a specific focus on building a business around commercially viable intellectual property, to create capacity, distribution, and a revenue stream, writes Jenifer Bartman.
Innovation tends to be viewed as something that is associated with labs, microscopes, and other technical spaces, and although it might start here, this is not where it ends. Products of invention that are viable in the marketplace do not get to customers on their own; rather, there is a need to dev...

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