Ottawa’s latest and most comprehensive answer to a question that has bedevilled governments for years — Why aren’t Canadian firms more innovative? — is already off to a rocky start.
The latest federal budget devotes 21 pages to the issue of innovation and productivity, describing the failure in stark terms and proposing a slew of changes that refocuses the venerable National Research Council and reshuffles how about $12 billion in annual research and development funds are doled out.
But corporate Canada, which will ultimately determine if the fix will work, is expressing doubt and bewilderment.
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