Innovation Policy: Missions

This latest podcast from the Public Policy Forum takes you on a journey through sticky policy topics of the day. We dive deep together and come up the other side with a better understanding of the landscape, the background and the policy options before us, and we do it in three short episodes per topic.

This first series focuses on innovation policy. In the second episode of this series, we look at how COVID-19 showed us what was possible in Canadian innovation and how we can take the lessons of a ‘mission’ to refocus our innovation policy as a whole.  We’re joined by Sue Paish (CEO of Canada’s Digital Technology Supercluster), Navdeep Bains (Vice-Chair of Global Investment and the former minister of Innovation, Science Economic Development), Sarah Doyle (Chief of Staff to Mariana Mazzucato), John Knubley (former deputy minister of Innovation, Science Economic Development), Sean Speer (PPF Scotiabank Fellow in Strategic Competitiveness at the Public Policy Forum ) and Robert Asselin (Senior Vice-President, Policy at the Business Council of Canada).

Next week, we'll be back talking about the proposal for CARPA, a Canadian advanced research agency.