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Canada’s Data Plan: We Need a Data Strategy that Supports Our Values and Encourages Innovation

As our economy becomes more data driven, Canadians need a national data strategy that encourages innovation, provides security and privacy, that prioritizes transparency and oversight, and that transcends jurisdictional barriers.

Date: Tuesday January 15, 2019


Innovation Collaboration with Europe: A Transatlantic Symposium

...Hungary, France and most Canadian provinces and territories. The symposium was designed to increase awareness of opportunities for innovation and collaboration between Canada and Europe, to explore areas of strength,...

Date: Thursday June 25, 2015


Leveraging Canada’s Innovation Ecosystem: Opportunities to Increase R&D Investment in Canada

...with executives from Canadian subsidiary firms, Leveraging Canada’s Innovation Ecosystem identifies key drivers and barriers in attracting foreign direct investment in Canadian R&D – and highlights opportunities to improve Canada’s...

Date: Tuesday January 19, 2016


Innovation, Investment, and Global Mandates

As competition for global investment intensifies, it is essential to understand how multinational enterprises (MNEs) decide where to locate high-value business functions that drive innovation. It is also important to...

Date: Tuesday December 13, 2011


October 6th, 2014 – At the Vanguard of Canadian Innovation: A Compilation of Co-op Case Studies

This study explored innovations in the co-op sector to identify game-changing products, services, and practices. Building on the cross-country discussion series, Innovation through Cooperation, this research showcases the impact of...

Date: Sunday October 6, 2013


Workplace Innovation in Canada’s Public Service: How Collaborative Approaches, Dynamic Workspaces, and Enabling Technology Can Deliver Greater Value to Canadians

...must focus on driving efficiencies and delivering value. The Public Policy Forum believes that it is essential to build and foster a culture of innovation in the workplace in order...

Date: Wednesday July 6, 2011


Innovation Generation: Roundtable on STEM and Entrepreneurship in K-12 (Summary Report)

In recent years, Canada’s Public Policy Forum has undertaken several initiatives on the theme of innovation. In our discussions and conversation on this topic, many leaders emphasized the importance of...

Date: Friday June 27, 2014


Inclusive Innovation: Using Technology to Bridge the Urban-Rural Divide

Canada must unlock the vast economic and human potential of small towns and rural communities by building the broadband infrastructure needed for citizens to prosper in an innovative, modern digital world.

Date: Wednesday January 9, 2019


Food Innovation in Canada’s North: The case for a social enterprise cluster

Our Task Force conducted a preliminary study of the feasibility of an Arctic Food Innovation Cluster in Canada. The intent of such a cluster is to advance increased access to affordable, culturally informed, healthy food across northern regions. The cluster’s secondary objective is to foster further innovations within the North’s commercial food production industry via new food production methods (e.g., full utilization of harvested fish), value chains, and/or governance models. This would, in turn, boost local economic development opportunities within these northern communities.

Date: Thursday March 7, 2019


Marshalling Incubators to Build Global Companies

...the area of innovation policy, explored in this report. In June 2015, the ERA-Can+ partners hosted a symposium on Trans-Atlantic Innovation in Toronto, Ontario [1]. The symposium, organized into three...

Date: Wednesday March 1, 2017


Crop innovation in the Canadian Prairies: Report of the Breadbasket 2.0 initiative

This report details the outcomes of the Public Policy Forum’s recent Breadbasket 2.0 initiative on agricultural innovation policy in the Canadian Prairies. The Forum convened a series of roundtable discussions...

Date: Monday December 2, 2013


One-on-One: Navdeep Bains and John Manley on innovation

VIDEO: Diversity, talent, immigration and picking winners are all keys to a better innovation culture in Canada, minister says Notable quotes Talent “should be our number one focus.” Bains called...

Date: Wednesday October 19, 2016


Transformational Gains

Global events are creating unprecedented opportunities for Canada to attract capital, talent and companies. In an age of disruptive technological advances, Canada must focus on research, talent and innovation to strengthen its innovative capacity, global competitiveness, and economic and social fabric.  

Date: Tuesday February 5, 2019


Rhetoric vs. Results: Shaping Policy to Benefit Canada’s Middle Class

Canada’s standard of living has been slipping: Between 1945 and 1976, parents could expect that their children would make twice the salary they did but today’s parents would be waiting 400 years for that to happen. Despite a professed desire to help the middle class, governments have done very little to do so; they fail to address this issue at their peril. This paper by PPF Fellow Don Wright provides several ways to fix the problem.

Date: Monday June 28, 2021


Canada’s Moonshot Expert Advisory Panel

...digital). A pioneer in corporate/entrepreneurial innovation, she co-founded a $100 million cleantech/digital venture fund (Evok Innovations). Her career includes roles as Cenovus Energy’s Chief Digital Officer, EVP Business Innovation, President...

Date: Tuesday May 18, 2021