The Strategy sets out three distinct Canadian advantages: an Entrepreneurial Advantage that encourages firms to be innovators; a Knowledge Advantage that puts Canadians at the international forefront of research and discovery; and a People Advantage that helps Canadians acquire the skills they need to participate in the knowledge-based economy. These advantages will enable researchers, innovators and businesses to improve Canada's productivity performance, create high-quality jobs and enhance Canadians' quality of life.
"Our S&T Strategy is aimed at getting the conditions right so that we, as a country, can get better at transforming discoveries into products that make a difference in people's lives, and turning knowledge into wealth," said Minister Prentice. "We must mobilize professors and students to pursue research excellence at nothing less than world standards, partner when appropriate to ensure that leading-edge knowledge is used to improve the standard of living and quality of life of Canadians and focus in areas of opportunity for Canada."
In Budget 2007 the Government of Canada announced $1.9 billion in funding for a number of the policy commitments in the S&T Strategy, almost all of which will go to support S&T-related activities at Canadian universities and community colleges.
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Stumble It!
From the good news bulletin: "...a multi-year framework designed to create a
business environment that encourages the private sector to innovate and to
guide intelligent, strategic investments of public funds."
How is this different from anything that has been going on for years? How
does this benefit Canadians? This is exactlty the kind of research that is
suspect because it is "guided" not by independent thinkers but by corporate
need and greed.
Announce you are getting rid of the patent system! Now that in my opinion
would be a good news bulletin. Patents, again in my opinion, stifle
innovation and idea sharing and getting rid of them would announce to the
world that we have the freedom to be brilliant and transend greed.
More "good news": "These advantages will enable researchers, innovators and
businesses to improve Canada's productivity performance, create high-
quality jobs and enhance Canadians' quality of life."
Where is the proof for that? What is a high-quality job and why would not all
jobs be performed with high-quality and be given the same value? And de-
flowered, "improved productivity performance" is what exactly? What is an
"enhanced quality of life"? From the years I grew up each year we have
become more and more "productive" and innovative has increased the
liklihood of me getting some new disease or cancer, not being free to drink
water from any waterway I choose, eating mad hormone-laced cows and
foods injected with peticides and herbicides.
So far - in a matter of 40 years we have moved from a really safe
environment to one that really sucks. I don't know how much farther we can
go in that direction or do we now think we can reverse all that and still have
an "enhanced quality of life"?
You can tell that those making these statements either lived a very
unconscious life so far or are too young to remember what a great quality of
life we had and that it has been "enhanced" to death.
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"The most sustainable product is the one you never bought in the first place."
Alex Steffan
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"George Bush has declared the war on terrorism to be the cause of his generation. The cause of Canadian sovereignty will be ours." - John Godfrey, MP for Don Va
then comment?
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"The most sustainable product is the one you never bought in the first place."
Alex Steffan