Stoneleigh Insights
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Mobilizing Nationally to Win in the Emerging Global Economic Battlefront
Mobilizing Nationally to Win in the Emerging Global Economic Battlefront? October 1, 2015 Canada needs to forge a true national partnership on science and technology convergence – the new global economic battlefront — to protect long-term Canadian socio-economic interests. Imagine if our nation had failed to mobilize around the emergence of Genomics in the 1970s. Canada would likely be on…
Seasoning Highly Skilled and Educated Personnel
RE$EARCH MONEY May 29, 2014 Seasoning highly skilled and educated personnel By Robert James Despite Canadian prowess in the production of highly skilled and educated personnel (HSEP), demand for these newly minted graduates appears to be relatively weak in Canadian small- to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). This despite relentless global competition in innovation and commercialization — areas where Canada, at an…
Mobilizing Canada’s Innovation System to Win in the Global Marketplace
RE$EARCH MONEY June 21, 2013 Mobilizing Canada’s innovation system to win in the global marketplace By Robert James “Those white coats will drive you crazy”. These are the words that greeted me in the early 1990s as I announced to my boss that I had decided to leave a corporate federal public service job to join the Canadian Centre for…
