Tag: Canada’s Innovation Underperformance
Fixing Canada’s underperformance on innovation
Recent scientific research has confirmed that to remember something, we need to keep experiencing it, and then “forgetting” about it and re-remembering in between these experiences. Researchers have also concluded that to solve difficult problems, we need to push recent experiences out of the way in order to generate new ideas. It’s part of the […]
How and why Canada must innovate to remain competitive
When you think about innovation, Canada may not be the first country that comes to mind. After all, in the 2017 Global Innovation Index survey, Canada only ranked 18th on innovation out of 100 countries surveyed. And while we are underperforming in this area, innovation matters to Canada. It is a key pillar in diversification […]
Innovation’s ground-shifting impacts on labour
The age of computing power — computerization, automation and robotics — is transforming today’s global labour markets in unprecedented ways, presenting great uncertainty about the future of the employment landscape. In this age, we’re told driverless cars, pilotless planes and chefless kitchens are all within the realm of possibility. Of course, this is not the […]
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