Mark Lowey

Canada needs to fix broken structures to create an innovation-driven economy

Mark Lowey
May 28, 2025

Canada’s structures for incentivizing and creating an innovation-driven economy are so broken, if the country were operating as a business it would be considered a bad investment, two veterans of the innovation landscape said at Alberta Innovates' Inventures conference in Calgary.

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Organizations:
Alberta Innovates, BAE Systems, BDC, Cisco, Council of Canadian Innovators, Dalhousie University, Epic Systems Corporation, Google, Government of Canada, Government of Ontario, Government of Quebec, Huawei, IBM, Magnet Forensics, National Research Council, Novo Nordisk, RCMP, Solace Power, Thoma Bravo, U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and U.S. government
People:
Benjamin Bergen, Neil Desai, and Premier Doug Ford
Topics:
Alberta Innovates Inventures conference and federal innovation policy in Canada

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