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HAL Partner Tijs Creutzberg recently gained recognition in the media for his paper "Canada's Innovation Underperformance: Whose Policy Problem is it?". Tijs brings attention to the fact that Canadian firms are regularly outperformed in terms of innovation. In his paper, he argues that Canadian federalism is at least part of the problem.

The RIC Centre

In recent years, various calls for an innovation centre in Mississauga have been made, each with different ideas as to what such a centre should be about. Ideas have included establishing a centre as: a place where small high-tech businesses can access resources, programs and services to help them thrive; a meeting place for companies and individuals to meet, interact and engage on innovation issues; an incubator and accelerator that can support the development startups and small technology firms; and as an organization that can anchor an innovation hub in the city and align the region’s educational resources with business needs. What this study finds, however, is that the current innovation support system in Mississauga is already delivering on a number of elements captured by these ideas. For this reason, this study sets out an action plan that goes beyond an innovation centre per se to address factors for strengthening innovation in Mississauga as whole including ways to build a talent advantage for the city’s innovation economy.

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Statistics eXplorer

HAL has partnered with NcomVA of Sweden to bring the Statistics eXplorer mapping software to Canada.  Statistics eXplorer will help you to discover and display patterns in your national or regional statistics, providing the basis for better understanding and communication, and leading to better decisions.  More information can be found at www.ncomva.com

Canada Foundation for Innovation

The role of the outcome measurement study (OMS) is to assess CFI’s contribution to the realization of five outcomes: strategic research planning; research capacity; highly qualified personnel, research productivity; and innovation.

R&D Review Secretariat

HAL is working with the R&D Review Secretariat to carry out an analysis of methods to assess the effectiveness of R&D programs.  The study is in support of the expert panel that is reviewing what federal initiatives are most effective in increasing business R&D and facilitating commercially relevant R&D partnerships.