Canada's Low-Innovation Equilibrium: Why It Has Been Sustained and How It Will Be Disrupted
In: Canadian public policy: Analyse de politiques, Band 42, Heft S1, S. S39-S45
ISSN: 1911-9917
The paper begins with some basic innovation definitions and quickly reviews evidence of the relatively weak innovation performance of Canadian business. The core of the paper develops a thesis that explains why Canadian industry, on the whole, has not emphasized innovation in its business strategies but has prospered nonetheless. This raises the question of whether Canada's low-innovation equilibrium can persist in the face of tectonic forces related to globalization, technology, and sustainability that require innovative responses from enterprises worldwide and, not least, from Canada.