Appeared in the Toronto Star on May 25, 2013 as Canada’s Lack of Innovation an Emerging Crisis The political world may have been focused last week on crises at the Senate and the Toronto mayor’s office, but a new report from the government’s Science, Technology and Innovation Council quietly pointed […]
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Copyright and Innovation: The Untold Story
Professor Michael Carrier has published the results of a remarkable initiative on copyright and innovation that uses the music industry and Napster as the case study. Carrier interviewed leading executives at major record labels and technology companies in an effort to better understand the implications of the litigation strategy against […]
STIC Report Finds Canadian Innovation Slides
Canada’s Science, Technology and Innovation Council released its latest report on the State of the Nation, finding that Canada has declined over the past two years on the majority of innovation benchmarks
LSE Study Says P2P Should Be Encouraged to Promote Innovation
The London School of Economic Media Policy Project has released a new study that criticizes recent UK reforms for failing to strike the right balance between copyright enforcement and innovation. The report finds that P2P should be encouraged to promote innovative applications and that offering user-friendly, fairly priced services is […]
Do Patents Impede Medical Care and Innovation?
PLOS Medicine publishes a series of short pieces on the impact of patents on medical care and innovation, drawn in part from Canadians Richard Gold, James Obinski, and Sevil N-Marandi.
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