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new KNOWLEDGE for a new economy Universities and Colleges: Cashing in on Canada’s Education Advantage Golden ANNE President and CEO The Conference Board Of Canada Information Supplement I n June 2007, The Conference Board of Canada released the inaugural edition of our benchmarking report How Canada Performs: A Report Card on Canada. One of its most emphatic messages is that this country’s achievements in the domain of innovation are mediocre in comparison with our international peers. This weakness in innovation bodes poorly for our future across the whole spectrum of national performance. What Canada’s colleges and universities are doing to advance innovation—and what conditions would enable them to be better at this role—are therefore important issues for all of us. mission as encompassing direct innovationpromoting activities within higher education settings, such as collaboration in businessfunded research projects and the delivery of technological and entrepreneurial education on a much larger scale. To be sure, this is a contested vision: some faculty members and administrators see these activities as threatening to intellectual freedom and the pursuit of basic research; while others welcome a more robust connection of their institutions’ work to the world outside. Encouraging a broader national conversation about how universities and colleges relate to innovation and the national economy will benefit Canada. This special edition of New Knowledge for a New Economy is intended to advance that conversation. Canada’s universities and colleges see their societal mission as including two elements that are vital indirect contributors to innovation. First, they foster thought, ideas and original thinking, which contribute to both the spirit and substance of innovation. And second, they supply highly-skilled future workers for the labs and industries where innovation happens—and leads to the commercialization which underpins future economic growth. Both these contributions are indisputably central to innovation; they deserve levels of government funding adequate to allow them to succeed in their mission. Some hold that a certain mindset is equally or more important for Canada’s colleges and universities to reach their full potential as incubators of innovation. According to this view, these institutions should see their Anne Golden Encouraging a broader national conversation about how universities and colleges relate to innovation and the national economy will benefit Canada. This special edition of New Knowledge for a New Economy is intended to advance that conversation.

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General Printers - New Knowledge for a New Economy UCIT 2007
Anne Golden
Claire Morris
Steve MacLean
Richard Florida
Kevin Stolarick
Gerry Brown
Chad Gaffield
Penny Milton
Paul Cappon

New Knowledge for a New Economy 2007

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