Health care and AI: a uniquely Canadian opportunity
If we put health at the centre of Canada’s AI strategy, we can strengthen our healthcare system while lowering costs, improving patient care, boosting productivity, accelerating life-changing health discoveries, and growing a globally competitive industry that pays dividends for decades.
From droughts to defence: Canada’s water tech wake-up call
Water security is national security. Let’s not wait for the next drought, the next border dispute, or the next global crisis to prove the point.
Building Canada’s capacity to use intellectual property for innovation
Canada’s strength lies in the openness and interconnectedness of its research and innovation ecosystems. Turning that strength into outcomes requires a deliberate focus on building absorptive capacity across the innovation system.
Innovation Policy Briefing
AI presents potential, and aspects that should give us pause
Complex technologies—whether AI or the next frontier in defence research, climate change, or cancer—require support from social sciences and humanities to explain the new technology according to the social and ethical norms by which we live.
Carpe momentum: why Canada’s future depends on its entrepreneurs
If we invest in this generation’s builders, from classrooms to companies, our prosperity agenda will not just imagine a better future, but build it.
Investing in the future of Canadian agriculture: a strategic imperative
Bold investment in agriculture and agri-food innovation can restore Canada’s global leadership and drive economic growth.
Innovation for a public purpose
Unfortunately, Canadian governments have focused too much on subsidizing technology ‘creation’ by a few firms, instead of widespread technology ‘adoption’ by all firms. To improve Canadian productivity we need to pivot and support widespread technology adoption.
Can Carney ensure Canada is a true innovation nation?
Canada’s poor performance on innovation is apparent in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s 2025 Global Innovation Report which ranks our nation in 17th spot, compared to 14th a year earlier.
Women entrepreneurs are a vital resource for growing Canada’s economy – it is time to break down the barriers standing in their way
Eliminating barriers begins with recognizing the vital role that women—whether entrepreneurs, self-employed, employees or unpaid caregivers—play in Canada’s economic health. Without adequate supports for women and children, Canada’s economy will not thrive.
