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Canada's National System of Innovation

by (author) Jorge Niosi

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Initial publish date
Apr 2000
Category
General
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780773520127
    Publish Date
    Apr 2000
    List Price
    $125.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780773568204
    Publish Date
    Apr 2000
    List Price
    $95.00

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Niosi looks at the history of Canada's National System of Innovation (NSI), particularly during the post-war period, illuminating the fact that during and after World War II over 30 research universities, 150 government laboratories, and dozens of government policies aimed at nurturing innovation in private firms, academia, and government organizations were developed. He uses data obtained through questionnaire responses from all the large research and development organizations in Canada to analyse Canada's domestic system of innovation, finding increasing collaboration between universities, government laboratories, and private firms.

He concludes that Canada has been quite successful in creating a national system of innovation and that the federal government, through its initiatives and innovative techniques, has been the main factor in the creation of this system.

About the author

Jorge Niosi won the John Porter Memorial Book Award of the CSSA in 1983 for Canadian Capitalism. He is a Professor of Sociology at the Université du Québec á Montréal.

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