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CCA populates expert panel on private sector innovation

Guest Contributor
January 21, 2008

The Council of Canadian Academies has announced the membership of its Expert Panel on Private Sector Innovation in Canada. The federal government asked the CCA to conduct an assessment to help determine why private sector R&D spending in Canada is lower than other advanced nations. The expert panel will try to answer several related questions including:

* How should the innovation performance of Canadian firms be assessed?;

* How innovative are Canadian firms, and what do we know about their innovation performance at a national, regional and sector level?

* Why is business demand for innovation inputs weaker in Canada than in many other OECD countries? and,

* What are the contributing factors, and what is the relative importance of these contributing factors?

Expert panel's members:

Robert Brown

chair, president and CEO, CAE Inc.

Savvas Chamberlain

chairman and founder, DALSA Corp

Marcel Côté

chairman, SECOR Inc

Natalie Dakers, CEO,

Centre for Drug Research & Development

Meric Gertler

co-director, Program on Globalization and Regional Innovation Systems Univ of Toronto

Bronwyn Hall

professor, Economics of Technology and Innovation, Univ of Maastricht,

professor, Univ of California at Berkeley

André Marcheterre

company director & former president/CEO, Merck-Frosst Canada

Arthur May

president emeritus, Memorial Univ

Brian McFadden

president/CEO, Prestige Telecom Inc.

Walter Mlynaryk

executive VP, Kruger Inc.

David Pecaut

senior partner & managing director

Boston Consulting Group

Jim Roche

co-founder and former president and CEO, Tundra Semiconductor Corp

Andrew Sharpe

executive director,

Centre for the Study of Living Standards

Jim Stanford

economist, Canadian Auto Workers

Guthrie Stewart

partner, Equity Fund,

Edgestone Capital Partners

Alexandre Taillefer

co-founder, Stingray Digital Group Inc

John Thompson

chair, TD Financial Bank Group



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