Re-Thinking Canada's BERD Gap

By Ron Freedman

All the Experts Agree. If there is one fact of innovation policy that every analyst can agree on, it is that Canada suffers a "BERD Intensity Gap" with the rest of the OECD; specifically, a gap between the amounts that Canadian business spends on R&D as a proportion of GDP, compared with its counterparts in other OECD countries.