Innovation, science, environment
Subtitle: Canadian policies and performance, 2007-2008
By: edited by G. Bruce Doern.
Contributors: Doern, G. Bruce.; Carleton University. School of Public Policy and Administration.
Publisher: Published for the School of Public Policy and Administration, Carleton University by McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Montreal; Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9780773532281
Subjects: Technological innovations -- Government policy -- Canada.; Science and state -- Canada.; Environmental policy -- Canada.; Research institutes -- Canada.; Technological innovations -- Government policy.; Science and state.; Environmental policy.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The reshaping of an agenda for innovation, science, and environment (ISE) / G. Bruce Doern; title: The struggle over Canada's role in the post-Kyoto world / Peter Calamai; title: Canadian innovation in a changing world: towards better S & T priority-setting / Jac van Beek; title: Innovation and natural resources: myths and realities about the "old" economy versus the "new" economy / A. Jai Persaud, Uma Kumar, Vinod Kumar; title: The path to local sustainable development: two approaches / Robert Hilton; title: Canadian internet pharmacies and the USA technological and regulatory market change / Scott Bennett; title: Promoting partnerships in biotechnology for development / Basma Abdelgafar, Halla Thorsteinsdóttir; title: Biotechnology regulatory regime shift in the growing bio-health products era / G. Bruce Doern; title: Renewable energy policies and the provinces / Judith Lipp; title: The human nature connection: sustainable development policy implications / Elizabeth Nisbet, John Zelenski, Steven Murphy; title: Putting the squeeze on procurement: procurement policy as a lever for innovation, science, and environment / Barbara Allen; title: Transforming health sciences research: from the Medical Research Council to the Canadian Institutes of Health research / Joan Murphy; title: Intellectual property rights and competition policy in the knowledge-based economy: compatible or colliding policy regimes? / Derek Ireland; title: Harmful distraction: the commercialization of knowledge at Canada's public universities / Malcolm G. Bird.