Canada should focus on prosperity and commerce rather than enhanced R&D performance if it hopes to reverse the slide in its number of globally focused innovative companies, says a new report. The loss of large and medium-sized technology-based firms can be traced to misdirected government policies and a long term shift in the nation's post-secondary institutions towards pure research, although one of the report's co-authors says the recent policy emphasis on experiential learning is cause for cautious optimism.