Real innovation required: Richard Owens in the Hill Times
We need a whole new direction on innovation. Let’s wind up all the innovation corporate welfare programs and return their budget allocations to...
A real innovation agenda for Canada: MLI Commentary by Richard Owens
OTTAWA, ON (October 11, 2019): Canada lags behind other developed nations when it comes to innovation. From declining investments in research and development...
What Went Wrong with Canada’s Carbon Tax? MLI commentary by Philip Cross
OTTAWA, ON (July 9, 2019): At one time, the carbon tax was a popular policy with a significant number of proponents on both...
MLI's Owens documents Ottawa's innovation hits and misses for international report
MLI Munk Senior Fellow Richard Owens recently contributed, alongside co-authors Daniel Schwanen (C.D. Howe Institute) and Stephen Ezell (Information Technology and Innovation Foundation),...
Are we ready for industrial revolution No. 4? This time is different: Linda Nazareth in the Globe
Industry 4.0 offers amazing possibilities for everything from manufacturing to medicine, but we should be aware of its spin-off effects, writes Linda Nazareth....
USMCA makes intellectual-property protections great across North America: Owens, Ezell, and Saracho in the Financial Post, the Hill
The USMCA will unleash innovation and make Canada and Mexico more attractive locations to conduct life-sciences R&D, write Richard Owens, Stephen Ezell, and Alberto...
Why the USMCA is good for Canada’s Innovative Economy: New MLI Report
OTTAWA, ON (May 23, 2019): Despite the successful negotiation of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) last year and a recent deal on eliminating...
Determining competitiveness in an increasingly intangible innovation economy: Speer and Asselin in the Globe and Mail
The rise of the intangible economy requires us to re-evaluate, refine and reorient how we think about economic policy and aim to position...
The Structural Challenges Facing the Global Economy: Straight Talk with Tyler Cowen
OTTAWA, ON (March 7, 2019): With the global economy facing increasing strain, what do we know about the problems afflicting markets, and what can...
Federal Indigenous agenda needs innovative ideas: Joseph Quesnel in the Toronto Sun
Minister O’Regan faces a lot of pressure to revive the government’s faltering Indigenous agenda. He can do that by pushing for bold commitments...
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