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...
Canada’s New Rules Aiming to Cut Drug Prices May Penalize Consumers: Richard Owens in the Epoch Times
Price-focused regulatory changes could limit access to new drugs and dampen R&D investment, writes Richard Owens. By Richard C. Owens, September 17, 2019...
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),...
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...
Amazing! Canada just came up with a brilliant new digital copyright regime — finally: Richard Owens in the Financial Post
The Canadian copyright and intellectual-property scene has too long been smothered and defiled by the negative views of anti-copyright and anti-IP activists and...
There is a 98% chance your lawyer is a sheep: Richard Owens for Inside Policy
Forced speech breaches section 2 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which sets out the fundamental freedoms of conscience, thought and...
The Threat Huawei Poses to Canada
Should Canada be concerned about Huawei and Chinese infiltration into Canada's economy? According to a panel of experts, we should absolutely be worried....
Strengthening Canada's intellectual property regime should be first and foremost: Owens and Speer in the Hill Times
We should recognize the failures of Canada's innovation policy industrial complex and strengthen our intellectual property regime, write Richard Owens and Sean Speer ...
Copyright and patent provisions in USMCA largely to Canada’s benefit: MLI's Richard Owens available to comment
OTTAWA, ON (October 2, 2018): The provisions on copyright and patents in the new US-Mexico-Canada Agreement should be seen as wins for Canadians,...
