Canada's National System of Innovation
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- ISBN 9780773520127
- Publication Date: 18 Apr 2000
- Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
- Publication City/Country: CA
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Jorge Niosi is professor and Canada Research Chair on the Management of Technology, Université du Québec à Montréal. He is also the author of Canada's National System of Innovation, Flexible Innovation: Technological Alliances in Canadian Industry, and th
