We need a balanced research environment to foster a real ‘innovation economy’

Funding research for our aging society, along with eventual applications in services and products, will help drive Canada’s innovation economy, write John Muscedere and Alex Mihailidis.

Canada needs to embrace new ways of healthy aging, and needs new government funding and policies to achieve it. This is part of the innovation economy too, write John Muscedere and Alex Mihailidis.Photograph courtesy of Pixabay

Opinion

BY JOHN MUSCEDERE AND ALEX MIHAILIDIS

May 8, 2023

The federal government often talks about fostering an ‘innovation economy’—and for good reason. The application of technological innovations and entrepreneurship have been at the forefront of economic growth in the globalized economy for some time already, and that onl...

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