By enhancing existing incentives and introducing new ones to promote investment in tech startups and productivity, new measures in Quebec’s budget will increase the province’s attractiveness to innovative companies.
Person: Dr Margaret Dalziel
Cautious optimism for government’s new R&D procurement program
Innovative Solutions Canada, a novel new government program that aims to boost R&D support for small and mid-sized enterprises (SMES) is being welcomed by players in the innovation ecosystem as many have long been clamouring for such an initiative.
Federal innovation support programs focus of ground breaking Treasury Board inventory
Treasury Board Secretariat (TBS) has completed a comprehensive inventory of federal programs aimed at supporting business innovation and clean technology. The inventory captured 20 organizations and 92 program streams (business-facing programs), with the top five accounting for more than two-thirds of the $2.379 billion total.
Dr Margaret Dalziel, associate professor, University of Waterloo and VP Research, The Evidence Network.
Canada needs separate tax credits for R & D
By Dr Margaret Dalziel
Readers of RE$EARCH MONEY know that Canada is plagued by a low level of business expenditures on research and development. This is troubling because investment in the generation of new, knowledge-based products, processes, and services is the means by which firms create offerings that are globally competitive.
Dr Margaret Dalziel
A New Approach to Government “Help”
By Dr Margaret Dalziel
The more things change, the more they stay the same. The fact that we have a new government doesn’t change the fact that Canadian firms must continue to innovate to survive in today’s highly competitive global markets.
Dr Margaret Dalziel
An alternative structure for the NRC
By Dr Margaret Dalziel
As we await the next proclamations on research and innovation from the federal government, the perennial question of how to best leverage our scientific and technological capacities for economic and social gain gets its annual examination.