Lawrence Zhang

Canada doesn’t have an innovation system – It has 134 siloed and fragmented programs

Lawrence Zhang
July 16, 2025

Canada’s innovation system has a structural problem, and it needs a structural solution: an institution designed to make the system deliver, not just add to it. Canada needs a new federal institution that makes the system more than the sum of its parts: a Canadian Innovation and Industrial Transformation Agency.

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Business Finland, Canadian Innovation Corporation, Centre for Canadian Innovation and Competitiveness, Department of National Defence, Information Technology & Innovation Foundation, Innovate UK, Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada, National Research Council, NEDO, and U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
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Lawrence Zhang
Topics:
Commercialization, defense, economic development, federal programs, fixing Canada's innovation system, funding, industrial transformation, innovation, innovation system, NATO, policy, procurement, R&D, Research, and technology

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