Green Industrial Policy in Canada
Deconstructing ‘Green Industrial Policy’ and what it means for economic transformation in Canada based on justice and equality.
Public Ownership
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Public investment and the innovation agenda
The innovation agenda marks another incremental turn away from “framework” economic development policies. But the shift is unlikely to be transformational unless it is scaled up and accompanied by a greater role for long-term public investment.
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Government investment can reverse Canada’s business innovation deficit
While the resource economy and traditional manufacturing struggle, we have largely failed to build new sources of wealth in knowledge intensive goods and services.
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Innovation: re-thinking the role of the state
In Canada’s particular context, left economic thinkers surmised that the role of the state is not only to foster equality, but to also help set the direction of the economy since domestic entrepreneurs were proving inadequate to the task.
