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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.

Ottawa must act now to prepare for the next pandemic or other national health emergency, says federal advisory panel

By Mark Lowey
Canada needs to act now across several fronts to be adequately prepared for the next pandemic and future health emergencies, says a report by a federal advisory group, released by Ottawa after five months with no government response.

Roadmap for research in Canada: Q&A with Roseann O’Reilly Runte, former head of Canada Foundation for Innovation

By Mark Lowey
Roseann O’Reilly Runte, who has stepped down after seven years leading the Canada Foundation for Innovation, talks about her roadmap for research in Canada and why a strategic research strategy is needed.

China has become a global innovator that threatens to eclipse the U.S. and other Western countries: ITIF report

By Mark Lowey
China is no longer only a “copier” of Western countries’ innovations, but now leads or is on par with global leaders in several advanced industries, says a report by the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation.

Ottawa should invest part of $2-billion AI infrastructure fund in “made-in-Canada” supercomputer, expert says

By Mark Lowey
Canada needs to close the productivity gap with other countries investing in world-class supercomputers by building a “made-in-Canada” supercomputer, says a Queen’s University researcher and international expert on high-performance computing.

Canada must fix its “innovation deficit” and unfocused, ineffective industrial policy: Business Council of Canada report

By Mark Lowey
Canada has an “innovation deficit” and an unfocused, ineffective industrial policy that is limiting productivity and economic growth, says a new report by Robert Asselin from the Business Council of Canada.

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