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