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By Mark Lowey
Canada's research ecosystem is too risk-averse, shunning failure and hindering innovation, said experts at Research Money's annual conference in Ottawa. To compete globally, Canada must embrace new research funding models that foster wealth creation, provide societal benefits and encourage cross-sector collaboration.

By Mark Lowey
Canada lacks an overarching strategy, long-term planning, policy continuity and other key ingredients for success in its innovation ecosystem compared with countries like the United Kingdom, Switzerland and the European Union. That was the main takeaway from an international panel at Research Money’s annual conference in Ottawa.

By Mark Lowey
Scaling up Canadian businesses is key to addressing the productivity crisis and growing the economy but startups face several challenges in becoming large and globally competitive, experts said at Research Money’s annual conference in Ottawa.

By Mark Lowey
The global polycrisis requires Canada to transform its financial systems to support innovation and stop investing in systems that are destroying social cohesion and natural diversity, Anastasia Mourogova Millin said at Research Money's annual conference. She develops transformative financial instruments that address key social problems.

By Mark Lowey
Canada’s research and innovation ecosystem can help manage global risks and boost the economy, but requires a major structural overhaul, including getting a return on public investment to benefit Canadians, panellists said at Research Money’s annual conference in Ottawa.

By Mark Lowey
This is the “century for the Prairies” to grow an innovation-driven, value-added economy, and Alberta is well-positioned to take the lead, says prominent entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist Jim Balsillie.

By Mark Lowey
Canadian innovators can produce the most wonderful medical devices that improve patient outcomes and reduce health care costs, but they won’t get used unless they meet several requirements, experts said at Alberta Innovate's Inventures conference.

By Mark Lowey
Social entrepreneur Vicki Saunders learned from her parents the values of having the freedom to dream and being part of a close, interconnected community. In a conversation with Research Money publisher Jeffrey Crelinsten, she shares how those values shaped her innovative thinking in how to invest and do business in a caring, open, sustainable way to "create the new world."

By Mark Lowey
Canada’s well-educated talent pool and numerous federal government innovation programs haven’t translated into the commercialization of products for the global digital economy, panellists said during a Canadian Science Policy Centre webinar.