Canada has some of the most skilled engineers in the world. Just ask Steven Woods, Google’s director of engineering in Waterloo, Ontario. He recently told the New York Times that the University of Waterloo is one of his company’s top three universities in the world for recruiting new hires.
Kunal Gupta, CEO of Toronto-based Polar Mobile said at the GE Look Ahead Executing Innovation summit in Toronto last week that his country is an ideal place to start a business. But, he also said that Canada is not a good place to achieve that all-important scale needed to succeed on a global level. “The piece that hasn’t been covered off is … how do we take our products or services or business and market them at a global scale?”
To read the original article: Can Canada become a major global innovation player? - | GE Look Ahead | The Economist
