Upcoming Events

Institute to release Working Paper 13, Management Strength in the Retail Sector

We are pleased to announce that Roger L. Martin, Chairman of the Institute for Competitiveness & Prosperity will be releasing Working Paper 13 on Thursday April 8, 2010, 8:00 to 10:00 am.

The Working Paper features recent research done by the Institute on the quality of management in Canada’s and Ontario’s retail sector and presents new research on the impact of management on regional and national prosperity.The Working Paper is a continuation of the Institute’s work on Canada and Ontario’s manufacturing sector, presented in Working Paper 12, Management matters.

Panelists to be announced.

There is no charge for this event, but space is limited. Registration is required.

James Milway to speak at The 2nd Canadian Quality Congress

Take this opportunity to listen to our Executive Director James Milway discuss Canada’s under performance in productivity and innovation.  Federal, provincial, and many local governments have adopted innovation agendas to commercialize research and stimulate the growth of new industries.  Based on the research conducted by the Institute for Competitiveness & Prosperity, Milway will discuss Canada’s innovation gap and identify some of the factors that help explain it.  He will focus on the requirements for good public policy on innovation – the need for effective support for innovation and competitive pressure. 

Innovation is the result of an eco-system that has both support and pressure.  However, much of our public policy is based on the premise that innovation is a linear process of commercializing research results.  Consequently it is too often aimed solely at providing support, particularly for the hard sciences.  Innovation policy needs to be balanced with efforts at strengthening management and boosting competitive pressure in the economy.

Registration will be available in February at: http://www.CanadianQualityCongress.com