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By Guest Contributor
Canada's innovation policy must recognize and incorporate risk and failure, learn from these failures, and measure outcomes – or end up stifling innovation and productivity, says Andrew Maxwell at York University.

By Research Money
In this special episode, Jeffrey Crelinsten, CEO and Publisher of Research Money, shares his journey with Aikido. He explores the skills, values, and unexpected lessons that emerged along the way, and how his teacher, Henry Kono, discovered the secret to this martial art.

By Roseann Runte
Canadian governments, businesses and institutions should work together on an affordable plan that would bring U.S. researchers to Canada, provide jobs for top Canadian scholars so they will remain here, create critical mass and build the economy, says Roseann O'Reilly Runte, past president of the Canada Foundation for Innovation and president of Runte and Associates Inc.

By Peter Josty
Productivity decline is not unique to Canada and may have alternative explanations, including the erosion of natural capital and natural ecosystems under stress, says regular Research Money contributor Peter Josty, executive director of The Centre for Innovation Studies.

By Guest Contributor
Canada's colleges, polytechnics and Quebec's cégeps are playing an increasingly important role in Canada's R&D activities and meeting industry's needs for speed, practical excellence and flexibility, says Alexandre Navarre, a board member of the CCTT Novika and the incubator CEIM.

By Guest Contributor
Generative artificial intelligence has achieved at least a tenfold exponential increase in capabilities over previous AI systems. But current AI systems are nowhere near producing "unbounded productivity" and will require another tenfold increase in capabilities to do so, say thought leaders Eli Fathi and Peter K. MacKinnon.

By Guest Contributor
The new Mark Carney government must anchor university research to the needs of Canadian industry, and universities need to do a better job of commercializing their research within Canada, says Robert D. Atkinson of the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation.

By Guest Contributor
Consultant Peter Morand, former dean of science and engineering at the University of Ottawa and past president of NSERC, looks at the shortcomings of Canada's innovation strategy, why other countries are doing better, and the need for a "whole of government" approach and an independent Innovation Advisory Council.

By Peter Josty
Regular Research Money contributor Peter Josty, executive director at The Centre for Innovation Studies, examines whether Canada's labour force has the level of skills and knowledge necessary to compete internationally.