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Mike and Ophelia Lazaridis hold hands last September at the grand opening of the new quantum-nano centre at the University of Waterloo. Beside them is Doug Fregin. All three donated to the centre. Feridun Hamdullahpur, president and vice-chancellor of the University of Waterloo, says Waterloo Region ihas become Canada's innovation capital.

Last Thursday, the Conference Board of Canada continued the steady drip of disappointing news about Canada’s research and innovation performance.

Ranked 13 of 16 industrialized countries for innovation and related metrics, Canada faces what can only be diagnosed as a crisis of complacency.

What else could it be? When it comes to revving up our innovation engines, we’ve got everything we need.

To read the original article: Bridging Canada’s innovation gap | therecord