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By Mark Lowey
Canada has all the necessary ingredients and a huge and timely opportunity to attract investment in clean energy projects during the global energy transition, given the Trump administration’s cuts to “green” energy incentives, investment managers said during a webinar by the Institute for Sustainable Finance.

By Mark Lowey
The federal and Ontario governments should collaborate to make Waterloo, Ontario, one of the world’s top 50 science and technology clusters, says Lawrence Zhang, head of policy at the Centre for Canadian Innovation and Competitiveness.

By Lawrence Zhang
Canada’s innovation system has a structural problem, and it needs a structural solution: an institution designed to make the system deliver, not just add to it. Canada needs a new federal institution that makes the system more than the sum of its parts: a Canadian Innovation and Industrial Transformation Agency.

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.