Superclusters: Rhetoric and Reality

Creso wrote on the recently announced superclusters initiative in the CIHE Blog:

cihe-colors-logo-01Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Navdeep Bains announced the federal government’s “superclusters” initiative yesterday. This had been in the works for a while. We already knew that the idea was to support a handful of projects across the country involving industry and universities in technology sectors deemed to hold high innovation potential, which Canada could excel on. We also knew that the government had earmarked $950 million for this initiative, hoping to create jobs, launch new firms, and help them scale. Read full text.


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Creso Sá is Distinguished Professor of Science Policy, Higher Education, and Innovation, and Vice-Dean of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), at the University of Toronto.

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