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Observers urge care in earmarking funds for innovation clusters
By Denis Calnan February 8, 2017
Hubs that bring together academia, private sector, and government are ‘a long-term petri dish,’ for skills needed to boost growth, says one academic.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visits the Centre for Commercialization of Regenerative Medicine in Toronto on Jan. 13, 2016, to which the government is giving a $20-million grant. Photograph courtesy of the PMO
People who study innovation appear cautiously optimistic the government’s plan to funnel hundreds of millions of dollars into innovation networks and clusters will succeed, but they warn the devil’s in the details.
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