“Our strategy will seek to expand government and business partnerships so new
investments can move quickly out of the laboratory and into the marketplace. We
will focus our efforts on Canada's inherent strengths and Canadians' primary
interests, including preserving the environment, improving public health,
developing natural resources and producing new information and communications
technologies.”
While this type of funding certainly is useful and has its place, I'm not sure how it's going to increase enrollment in computing science and mathematics. Comes back to the usual issue of how do you encourage business to set up shop in one locale over another. Targeted funding like this seems to me like a bandaid fix and ends up giving only temporary boosts until the money is gone.
Maybe the government would be better off fixing our capital markets by consolidating regulatory bodies and improving enforcement to gain some international respect, thereby improving access to capital for companies.
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Here is more info on the new national strategy:
www.pm.gc.ca/eng/media.asp?category=1&id=1656
details;
http://ic.gc.ca/cmb/welcomeic.nsf/ICPages/CorporatePublications#s-t
Extra dollars will filter down to support our Provincial and local efforts. This is all good news for technology commercialization at U of A and in the region.
I am not sure capital is the limiting factor. We need to catalyze an entrepreneurial spirit. The MBA program can foster this--the time has never been riper for MBAs to identify and seize technological opportunities given the base of science and technology in the region.
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