Canada’s thirteen provinces and territories are significant actors in Canadian society, directly shaping cultural, political, and economic domains. Regions also play a key role in creating diversity within innovative activity. The role of provinces and territories in setting science, technology, and innovation policy is, however, notably underexplored.
Ideas, Institutions, and Interests examines each province and territory to offer real-world insights into the complexity and opportunities of regionally differentiated innovation policy in a pan-continental system. Contributing scholars detail the distinctive ways in which provinces and territories articulate ideas and interests through their institutions, programs, and policies. Many of the contributing authors have engaged first-hand with either micro- or macro-level policy innovation and are innovation leaders in their own right, providing invaluable perspectives on the topic. Exploring the vital role of provinces in the last thirty years of science, technology, and innovation policy development and implementation, Ideas, Institutions, and Interests is an insightful book that places innovation policy in the context of multilevel governance.
Canada’s thirteen provinces and territories are significant actors in Canadian society, directly shaping cultural, political, and economic domains. Regions also play a key role in creating diversity within innovative activity. The role of provinces and territories in setting science, technology, and innovation policy is, however, notably underexplored.
Ideas, Institutions, and Interests examines each province and territory to offer real-world insights into the complexity and opportunities of regionally differentiated innovation policy in a pan-continental system. Contributing scholars detail the distinctive ways in which provinces and territories articulate ideas and interests through their institutions, programs, and policies. Many of the contributing authors have engaged first-hand with either micro- or macro-level policy innovation and are innovation leaders in their own right, providing invaluable perspectives on the topic. Exploring the vital role of provinces in the last thirty years of science, technology, and innovation policy development and implementation, Ideas, Institutions, and Interests is an insightful book that places innovation policy in the context of multilevel governance.
Authors
Acknowledgments
Part I: The Policy Challenge
1. Introduction to Innovation Policy in Canada
Peter W.B. Phillips and David Castle
2. The Ideas
Peter W.B. Phillips and David Castle
3. The Institutions
Peter W.B. Phillips and David Castle
4. The Interests
Peter W.B. Phillips and David Castle
Part II: The Provincial Responses
5. Newfoundland and Labrador: Missed Opportunities but
Glimmers of Hope
Ken Carter, Heather M. Hall, and Rob Greenwood
6. Prince Edward Island: From Gentle to Mighty Island
Mark Leggott and H. Wade MacLauchlan
7. Nova Scotia: Capitalizing on Atlantic Canada’s University
Advantage
Richard Isnor
8. New Brunswick: Beyond the Family Compact
David Foord, Gregory S. Kealey, and John D. McLaughlin
9. Quebec: The Nation State within the State
Yves Gingras
10. Ontario: Heartland Canada
Michele Mastroeni
11. Manitoba: Canada’s Most Diversified Economy
Derek Brewin
12. Saskatchewan: Where Innovation is a Contact Sport
Peter W.B. Phillips and Anne Ballantyne
13. Alberta: A Paradox of Riches
Richard Hawkins and Peter Josty
14. British Columbia: The Pacific Economy
David Castle
15. The Territories: Inverting Innovation for Canada’s North
Ken Coates and Sara McPhee Knowles
Part III: Lessons Learned
16. Conclusions and Lessons Learned
David Castle and Peter W.B. Phillips
Peter W.B. Phillips is a distinguished professor at the Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy at the University of Saskatchewan. David Castle is a professor in the School of Public Administration and Gustavson School of Business at the University of Victoria.
"This excellent collection outlining the history of research and
innovation policy in different provinces and federal organizations
provides the foundations on which to build so as not to repeat the
mistakes of the past. A must-read for anyone wishing to tackle the
much-needed coordination of Canadian innovation policy between
multiple agencies and several levels of government."--Catherine
Beaudry, Professor of Innovation Economics in the Department of
Mathematics and Industrial Engineering, Polytechnique Montréal and
Canada Research Chair in the Creation, Development and the
Commercialization of Innovation
" Ideas, Institutions, and Interests fills a critical gap in our
knowledge of Canada's innovation system. While we never lack for
studies of the nature of the Canadian federal system, the federal
dimension of our science, technology, and innovation system, and
the role of the provinces and territories in particular, has long
been neglected. While there are many valuable insights from this
comprehensive study, perhaps the most telling is the editors'
observation that outside of the major metropolitan centres, the
major issue for provincial innovation policies remains the
challenge of reducing their exposure to economic volatility, the
traditional 'staples trap, ' by upgrading to higher-value products
and services in the commodity-based sectors and supporting the
expansion of more innovation-intensive knowledge-based sectors in
their respective economies."--David A. Wolfe, Professor of
Political Science, University of Toronto Mississauga, and
Co-Director of the Innovation Policy Lab at the Munk School of
Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto
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