Mark Lowey

ANALYSIS: Government needs to fix problems at Canada’s main cleantech funding organization

Mark Lowey
August 30, 2023

Government needs to fix some problems at Sustainable Development Technology Canada and improve its oversight of SDTC and how Ottawa funds cleantech innovation, based on a Research Money analysis.



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Organizations: Advisory Panel on the Federal Research Support System, Business Development Bank of Canada, Canada Foundation for Innovation, Canada's Ocean Supercluster, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Export Development Canada, Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada, Institute for Research on Public Policy, Miovision Technologies, National Bureau of Economic Research, National Research Council, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Next Generation Manufacturing Canada, Office of the Auditor General of Canada, Protein Industries Canada, SemiosBio Technologies Inc., Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Statistics Canada, Sustainable Development Technology Canada, and Treasury Board
People: Daniel Dickin, François-Phillipe Champagne, and Leah Lawrence
Topics: "Bouchard" report, allegations of conflict of interest and financial mismanagement at Sustainable Development Technology Canada, Canada's cleantech ecosystem, Canada's research and innovation enterprise, Canada’s Global Innovation Clusters, federal Performance Management Program for Executives, federal research support system, federally funded innovation organizations' corporate metrics, government oversight of SDTC and innovation programs and initiatives, government's "use-it-or-lose-it" budget rule, ISED investigation of SDTC, NRC's Industrial Research Assistance Program, number of cleantech beneficiaries of federal funding, outcomes of federal funding to support innovation and commercialization, reducing Canada's greenhouse gas emissions, scale-up cleantech companies, SDTC's performance-based compensation system, Strategic Innovation Fund, and use of federal funding to support innovation

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