Mark Lowey

Targeted government procurement is the key to boosting Canada’s productivity, Council of Canadian Innovators says

Mark Lowey
September 18, 2024

More government procurement aimed at supporting technology companies with potential to grow into global firms is the key to improving Canada’s productivity, says a new report by the Council of Canadian Innovators .

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Organizations: AltaML, C.D. Howe Institute, Centre for International Governance Innovation, Council of Canadian Innovators, Government of Canada, Magnet Forensics, Nortel, OpenAI, Rolls-Royce, Statistics Canada, U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency,, and U.S. federal government
People: Dan Ciuriak, Edward Heath, Laurent Carbonneau, Margaret Thatcher, Neil Desai, and Nicole Janssen
Topics: artificial intelligence, benefits of government procurement, Building Winners: Strategic Procurement in the Age of Innovation (CCI report), federal government procurement agency, federal government procurement targets for SMEs, federal government’s 2017 Skills and Innovation Plan, freedom to operate, government tools for economic development, industrial policy initiatives in other countries, information technologies driving economic growth, more financial utilities to help achieve commercial outcomes, need for anchor firms in Canada, need for commercially-driven outcomes, need for interconnected innovation ecosystem, number of high-growth firms in Canada, U.S. Bayh-Doyle Act, using government procurement to help companies scale, using government procurement to improve Canada's productivity, value of government procurement, and value-based procurement

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