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Community-focused health innovation is thriving in developing countries, where necessity is the mother of invention

By Mark Lowey
The Innovate4Health project finds that some of the most critically needed, effective and low-cost health innovations are occurring in low-income countries, driven by community needs and accelerated with patents and protection of intellectual property.

Government must stop IP supported by public funding from flowing to other countries and not benefitting Canada

By Mark Lowey
Publicly funded research in Canada is generating more IP and economic benefits for other countries than it is here, say critics who point to the growing number of academics’ patents transferred to foreign firms.

Productivity and the future of advanced manufacturing in Canada : Q&A (part two) with Jayson Myers, CEO of NGen

By Mark Lowey
In part two of a Q&A, Jayson Myers, CEO of NGen, talks about: productivity in Canada’s manufacturing sector; his longer-term vision for NGen; the innovation cluster's future under a change in Canada's federal government; and the potential impact of a second Donald Trump administration on Canada’s manufacturing sector.

Game-changing companies are moving the needle on Canada’s bioeconomy

By Mark Lowey
Companies supported by Natural Products Canada are “game changers” whose innovative natural and bio-based technologies and products are making a positive impact in Canada’s bioeconomy – but they face their share of challenges.

SMEs and large companies working together to strengthen manufacturing: Q&A with Jayson Myers, CEO of NGen

By Mark Lowey
In a Q&A, we get an update from Jayson Myers, CEO of Next Generation Manufacturing Canada, a federally funded global innovation cluster, on what NGen has accomplished after more than five years in operation and where it’s headed.

Novel research hub geared to improve Canada’s pandemic preparedness and help companies commercialize vaccines

By Mark Lowey
The Canadian Pandemic Preparedness Hub is a new kind of research and innovation hub aimed at better preparing Canada for the next pandemic while also helping companies commercialize new vaccines and other therapeutics for many diseases.

How to grow Canada’s productivity? Competition, competition, competition

By Mark Lowey
Spurring competition, eliminating interprovincial trade barriers, reforming the tax system and encouraging foreign investment are all needed to address Canada's productivity problem, journalist Andrew Coyne told Canada’s Productivity Summit.

Canada’s productivity crisis is obvious, but fixing the problem is complicated, Canada's Productivity Summit hears

By Mark Lowey
Canada has a productivity “emergency,” but pinpointing the causes of the problem and fixing it is more of a puzzle, policy and economics experts told Canada’s Productivity Summit in Calgary.

Health care in Canada is reaping benefits from artificial intelligence, but more businesses need to adopt AI

By Mark Lowey
Artificial intelligence is providing numerous benefits to health care in Canada, but more businesses need to adopt AI, and a “sovereign” approach to the technology is needed, experts told Scale AI’s ALL IN conference.

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