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CIGI Papers No. 274 — April 2023 - An Economic Mirage

20 Apr 2023

discussion of the issues: the performance of the investment in terms of outcomes and This paper focuses on HERD investment in Canada the degree to which these outcomes benefit and specifically the case of public funding of R&D Canadians. [...] This discussion centres on the flow through the U15 university network,1 including an of publicly funded research dollars to Canadian examination of the productivity of that investment universities, the resulting generation of IP, the and the IP outcomes, and a discussion around the projected value of this IP and the ownership potential relationship between those outcomes destination of the IP ste. [...] Specifically, the authors suggest that the success of Canadian The need to evaluate the effectiveness of Canada’s universities at commercializing R&D and the extent public funding of university-led R&D is not a to which the associated IP remains in Canadian novel concept. [...] The metrics should include a measure of how university research supports the commercialization of 1 The U15 is a group of Canadian research universities: the University technology by Canadian firms and should carry of Alberta, the University of British Columbia (UBC), the University the assurance that Canadians and the Canadian of Calgary, Dalhousie University, Université Laval, the University of. [...] Note: The descending line of grey bullets captures the percent of Canadian IP ownership of each of the U15 universities and provides the basis for the scoring below.
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32
Published in
Canada
Title in English
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