Canada's Advanced Technology Business Plan
John de la Mothe,
CATA,
May 14, 2003
Not actually a plan, this document is a set of recommendations CRLFforwarded by the Canadian Advanced Technology Alliance CRLF(CATA) based on a survey of city executives and business CRLFleaders across Canada. It assesses the strengths and CRLFweaknesses of major Canadian cities with respect to innovation CRLFin technology and offers suggestions based on that assessment. CRLFThe subtitle of the report, "First the City, then the Country," CRLFreflects the bias inherent in the sampling. So too do some of the CRLFrecommendations, such as the emphasis on tax credits for CRLFresearch. As you scroll through the individual city reports, a CRLFclear trend emerges: cities rate themselves strongly with respect CRLFto infrastructure and people, and less well with respect to money CRLF(and in particular, venture capital) and leadership. Hence, for CRLFexample, the suggestion that Canada establish "a consolidated CRLFcentral information resource that would advise firms on where to CRLFgo to find capital (and) how to apply for it..." - a resource, in CRLFother words, similar to the Atlantic Venture Networking group already CRLFestablished by NRC's Industrial Research Assistance Program CRLFhere in the East. The report also urges CRLFhigh-speed links between urban hubs, greater emplasis on CRLFeducation and research, and the promotion of technology CRLFclusters. PDF document.
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