Environment Canada Review of the Report of the Task Force on Federal Policies and Programs for Technology Development (Wright Report)
Title | Environment Canada Review of the Report of the Task Force on Federal Policies and Programs for Technology Development (Wright Report) PDF eBook |
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Release | 1984 |
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Report of the Task Force on Federal Policies and Programs For Technology Development
Title | Report of the Task Force on Federal Policies and Programs For Technology Development PDF eBook |
Author | Canada. Task Force on Federal Policies and Programs for Technology Development |
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Pages | 75 |
Release | 1984 |
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Browsing Science Research at the Federal Level in Canada
Title | Browsing Science Research at the Federal Level in Canada PDF eBook |
Author | Brian B. Wilks |
Publisher | University of Toronto Press |
Pages | 664 |
Release | 2004-01-01 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 9780802088116 |
Wilks provides a historical background, list of publications, and description of activities for most of the major science initiatives undertaken at the federal level. He surveys a wide range of government documents and monographic and serial science collections used by both faculty and students.
Canadian Oceans Policy
Title | Canadian Oceans Policy PDF eBook |
Author | Don M. McRae |
Publisher | UBC Press |
Pages | 284 |
Release | 2011-11-01 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0774843055 |
This book deals with Canada's oceans management policies since the conclusion of the 1982 Convention of the Law of the Sea. That Convention set out a jurisdictional framework for the management of the world's oceans, but it did not provide states with precise guidance on all the issues that can arise. As a state with one of the world's longest coastlines, Canada was one of the principal beneficiaries under the 1982 Convention regime. A study of Canadian policy is particularly significant, as Canadian oceans management places in relief many of the difficult questions yet to be resolved.
Innovation, Science, Environment 07/08
Title | Innovation, Science, Environment 07/08 PDF eBook |
Author | G. Bruce Doern |
Publisher | McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 2007-03-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0773575561 |
This second volume in the ISE series examines the reshaping of ISE policy in the context of multi-level governance and policy. Contributors examine climate change policy, innovation in the natural resources sector, the internet pharmacy trade, biotechnology policy and governance, provincial government renewable energy policies, the psychological and human nature connection with sustainable development policies, procurement policy and innovation, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, and the commercialization of Canada’s universities.
Federal Science and Technology Review: Resource book for science and technology consultations
Title | Federal Science and Technology Review: Resource book for science and technology consultations PDF eBook |
Author | Canada. Secretariat for Science and Technology Review |
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Pages | 56 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Federal aid to research |
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Asleep at the Switch
Title | Asleep at the Switch PDF eBook |
Author | Bruce Smardon |
Publisher | McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Pages | 505 |
Release | 2014-11-01 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0773596542 |
Since 1960, Canadian industry has lagged behind other advanced capitalist economies in its level of commitment to research and development. Asleep at the Switch explains the reasons for this underperformance, despite a series of federal measures to spur technological innovation in Canada. Bruce Smardon argues that the underlying issue in Canada's longstanding failure to innovate is structural, and can be traced to the rapid diffusion of American Fordist practices into the manufacturing sector of the early twentieth century. Under the influence of Fordism, Canadian industry came to depend heavily on outside sources of new technology, particularly from the United States. Though this initially brought in substantial foreign capital and led to rapid economic development, the resulting branch-plant industrial structure led to the prioritization of business interests over transformative and innovative industrial strategies. This situation was exacerbated in the early 1960s by the Glassco framework, which assumed that the best way for the federal state to foster domestic technological capacity was to fund private sector research and collaborative strategies with private capital. Remarkably, and with few results, federal programs and measures continued to emphasize a market-oriented approach. Asleep at the Switch details the ongoing attempts by the federal government to increase the level of innovation in Canadian industry, but shows why these efforts have failed to alter the pattern of technological dependency.