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By Roseann Runte
Canadian governments, businesses and institutions should work together on an affordable plan that would bring U.S. researchers to Canada, provide jobs for top Canadian scholars so they will remain here, create critical mass and build the economy, says Roseann O'Reilly Runte, past president of the Canada Foundation for Innovation and president of Runte and Associates Inc.

By Peter Josty
Productivity decline is not unique to Canada and may have alternative explanations, including the erosion of natural capital and natural ecosystems under stress, says regular Research Money contributor Peter Josty, executive director of The Centre for Innovation Studies.

By Guest Contributor
Canada's colleges, polytechnics and Quebec's cégeps are playing an increasingly important role in Canada's R&D activities and meeting industry's needs for speed, practical excellence and flexibility, says Alexandre Navarre, a board member of the CCTT Novika and the incubator CEIM.

By Guest Contributor
Generative artificial intelligence has achieved at least a tenfold exponential increase in capabilities over previous AI systems. But current AI systems are nowhere near producing "unbounded productivity" and will require another tenfold increase in capabilities to do so, say thought leaders Eli Fathi and Peter K. MacKinnon.

By Guest Contributor
The new Mark Carney government must anchor university research to the needs of Canadian industry, and universities need to do a better job of commercializing their research within Canada, says Robert D. Atkinson of the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation.

By Guest Contributor
Consultant Peter Morand, former dean of science and engineering at the University of Ottawa and past president of NSERC, looks at the shortcomings of Canada's innovation strategy, why other countries are doing better, and the need for a "whole of government" approach and an independent Innovation Advisory Council.

By Peter Josty
Regular Research Money contributor Peter Josty, executive director at The Centre for Innovation Studies, examines whether Canada's labour force has the level of skills and knowledge necessary to compete internationally.

By Guest Contributor
It's time Canada moved past being a "middle power" and utilize the country's natural resources, talent and other advantages to become a global industrial powerhouse, says Lawrence Zhang, head of policy at the Centre for Canadian Innovation and Competitiveness.

By Dave Watters
Some advice for the incoming management team of Canada's derelict 60-year-old "Knowledge Factory," from David Watters, president of the Institute for Collaborative Innovation, founder and former CEO of Global Advantage Consulting Group, and a former assistant deputy minister in Finance Canada.