Mark Lowey

Canada’s research funding system lacks focus to pursue moonshot-style projects: report

Mark Lowey
November 8, 2023

Canada’s research funding system lacks the focus, flexibility and national strategy to pursue moonshot-style projects, according to report by the Standing Committee on Science and Research.

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Organizations: Advisory Panel on the Federal Research Support System, Canada Innovation Corporation, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Government of Canada, House of Commons, Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada, Institut Quantique, Mila-Quebec AI Institute, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Standing Committee on Science and Research, U.S. Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, U.S. National Cancer Institute, U.S. National Institutes of Health, Université de Montréal, and University of Sherbrooke
People: Alexandre Blais, Dr. Frédéric Bouchard, PhD, François-Philippe Champagne, Seth Klein, Sir Nicholas Stern, and Yoshua Bengio
Topics: "Bouchard" report, applied research and development, artificial intelligence, barriers to moonshot research programs, brain research, Canada Excellence Research Chairs, Canada First Research Excellence Fund, Canada's Pan-Canadian AI Strategy, Canada's research funding system, Canada's research spending lagging, cancer research, fundamental, curiosity-driven research, funding required to tackle the climate emergency, Innovation and Skills Plan, moonshot-style projects, National Quantum Strategy, national research strategies, New Frontiers in Research Fund, Pan-Canadian Genomics Strategy (PCGS), possible Canadian mooshot projects, research on climate change, scholarships and fellowships for graduate students and postdoctoral researchers, U.S. National Cancer Institute’s Cancer Moonshot, and U.S. National Institutes of Health’s Brain Research Through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies Initiative

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