Taking your innovation to market

Here are a few organizations that are helping commercialize innovation, driving economic prosperity and growth in Ontario:

Q Let me start off with a hardball question. There are those who argue that Canada is nuts to see innovation as its future because it has so many natural resources that it should just extract and mine and farm and lumber those as long as it can. Your thoughts?
A I would say they are nuts or, maybe it's better said as the English put it, they are cracked.
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China has increased its spending on research and development from $20 billion to $90 billion between 2002 and 2007. Over the same period, Canada increased its spending from $23 billion to $27 billion and Ontario increased it from $10.4 billion to $12.5 billion.

Source: Nature Publishing, Statistics Canada