Innovation Policy

Innovation is the product of intentional human endeavor. Countries seeking world-leading innovative enterprises and industries need to implement thoughtful and effective national innovation systems, and supporting policy instruments, to maximize their innovation potential. Reports here review the innovation systems/policies of GTIPA-member nations.

An Entrepreneurial Canada? Understanding Canada’s Chronic Lack of Innovation and How We Can Fix It”

As the Canadian economy recovers from the devastation wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdown, Canada’s ability to return to normal quickly depends upon our ability to lead as innovators. Yet we also face a significant hurdle to achieving a full recovery – namely, Canada’s persistent lagging when it comes to innovation.

In MLI’s new report, titled “An Entrepreneurial Canada? Understanding Canada’s Chronic Lack of Innovation and How We Can Fix It,” Munk Senior Fellow Philip Cross makes the case that Canada’s failure to foster innovation comes down to a failure to embrace “creative destruction” – that is, the process of economic transformation whereby the old systems and structures of the economy are destroyed as new systems are introduced.

The Macdonald-Laurier Institute Tue, 09/15/2020

Implications of AI on the Indian Economy

India’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) moment is truly here and now. At a time when a diverse range of applications based on AI are being developed, pushing its frontier further into uncharted realms of business and society, Indian policymakers are contemplating and charting its potential for growth and social transformation. Our study attempts to understand the impacts of AI in India and trace the pathways that help realise it.

ICRIERWed, 08/26/2020

Collaboration Between Start-Ups and Federal Agencies: A Surprising Solution for Energy Innovation

Collaborations between climate-tech start-ups and government partners enhance start-up patenting and follow-on financing more than comparable collaborations with private firms or universities. Policies that foster them should be strengthened.

Information Technology and Innovation FoundationMon, 08/24/2020

How Nine Flawed Policy Concepts Hinder the United States From Adopting the Advanced-Industry Strategy It Needs

Few policymakers and even fewer pundits or economic analysts understand U.S. competitiveness problems in a way that would lead them to the logical conclusion that a national innovation and competitiveness strategy would count as a viable solution.

Information Technology and Innovation FoundationMon, 08/10/2020

Apprenticeships in the Tech Sector: Updating a Traditional Model for the 21st Century

This report lays out a set of findings from interviews conducted with stakeholders who play a role in tech apprenticeships in the Bay Area. This includes employers invested in or interested in tech apprenticeships and training providers, educators, and intermediaries that play a role in preparing and connecting candidates to apprenticeship roles. The information from these interviews has been synthesized and anonymized to provide recommendations on how apprenticeships can more effectively serve as an on-ramp for candidates from underrepresented backgrounds.

The Bay Area Council Economic InstituteSat, 08/01/2020

5G, the investigation of the Chamber and the state of the art in Italy

The fact-finding survey is the result of two years of work, which began on 27 September 2018 on new technologies in telecommunications, 5G, and Big Data created by the IX Transport and Telecommunications Commission of the Chamber. It is a full-bodied document, developed in 87 pages and divided into 16 thematic areas related to the new generation network and Big Data in which, through fifty hearings, the representatives of the institutions and competent Authorities, experts in the field took part, as well as television and telephone operators, representatives of trade union organizations and consumer and environmentalist associations and actors from the world of the Internet, universities and research institutes.

I-Com Sat, 08/01/2020

Monopoly Myths: Do Internet Platforms Threaten Competition?

The rapid growth of large Internet platforms has caused some activists, scholars, and political officials to worry about their impact on competition. These concerns are largely misplaced.

Information Technology and Innovation FoundationThu, 07/23/2020

Gaps, Quirks and Fixes: Accounting for Broader Public-Sector Pension Plans in Canada

C.D. Howe Institute Thu, 07/16/2020

Ensuring U.S. Biopharmaceutical Competitiveness

If the United States is serious about maintaining its leadership in biopharmaceuticals, then it’s time for policymakers to articulate and embrace a robust sectoral competitiveness strategy.

Information Technology and Innovation FoundationThu, 07/16/2020

Why the environment needs the market

Before Corona caught everyone's attention, there were probably no political issues that caused as much stir as environmental protection and the fight against global warming. Now that the worst seems to be over, these issues are coming back. Greta Thunberg and the Fridays for Future have been protesting for the saving of the planet for well over a year. In numerous European countries, Green parties have recently grown considerably - in Germany they have even been in the lead at times. In the United States, the Democratic Party has seen socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal proposal as a promising step in many areas . And in Brussels, Ursula from the Leyens European Commission is working on the introduction of her ownEuropean Green Deal.

The Hayek InstituteMon, 07/13/2020

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