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The National Research Council in The Innovation Policy Era

Changing Hierarchies, Networks, and Markets

by (author) G. Bruce Doern & Richard Levesque

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Initial publish date
May 2002
Category
Public Affairs & Administration, General, General
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780802035363
    Publish Date
    May 2002
    List Price
    $68.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781442681804
    Publish Date
    Apr 2002
    List Price
    $66.00

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In this first in-depth examination of the governance of the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) in over twenty-five years, G. Bruce Doern and Richard Levesque show how the agency's history is interwoven with the evolution of Canada's economic and industrial development and with the fostering of science at Canada's universities, in industry, and within the federal government. Using a policy and institutional approach, the authors demonstrate the ways in which the NRC has had to simultaneously absorb significant budgetary and personnel cuts and become, in its own structure and operations, an innovating institution that helps support and facilitate an innovating Canadian economy - one increasingly characterized by knowledge-based industries. By reconfiguring itself in terms of its institutional mix of hierarchies, networks, and markets, the NRC has had to confront and change its own traditions, yet maintain itself as a complex government agency that still values research for its own sake as a public good.

About the authors

G. Bruce Doern is a professor emeritus in the School of Public Policy and Administration, Carleton University. He is the author and co-author of numerous books on Canadian politics and policy, including Faith and Fear: The Free Trade Story, with Brian Tomlin, and Canadian Public Policy: Ideas, Structure, Process, with Richard Phidd.

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Richard Levesque is a PhD Candidate at the School of Public Policy and Administration, Carleton University.

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