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Chris Holt presents at the CCSBE conference
Chris Holt presented the paper the “Institutionalization of Entrepreneurship Education in Ontario”, co-authored with Creso Sá, at the 2017 conference of the Canadian Council of Small Business and Entrepreneurship. The conference took place at Laval University, Quebec City. The paper argues that Experiential Learning Theory provides a useful foundation to understand how different modalities of Continue reading
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Litmus test for science funding
Creso published an op-ed in the Times Higher Education on the release of the Naylor Report and what it means to science policy in Canada. When it won the Canadian general election in late 2015, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s incoming Liberal government took on an unabashedly pro-science stance that set it apart from the previous Continue reading
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Science, technology and innovation: A new narrative is needed
Creso published an op-ed in the Globe and Mail on the need for new thinking to inform science policy in Canada. The idea that science is inextricably linked to technological progress is now taken for granted. Historical evidence is voluminous and examples abound all around us, from satellites that keep our GPS devices working to medical treatments Continue reading
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The politics of the great brain race
New paper by Creso and Emma Sabzalieva examines the policy and politics around international student recruitment in higher education in four Anglophone countries. As the number of globally mobile students has expanded, governments are assumed to be consistently and intentionally competing for talent, in what has been called a “great brain race”. While the notion Continue reading
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Creating a world-class university in Central Asia
A new paper by Emma Sabzalieva looks at the policies of the Kazakhstani government towards a recently founded institution, Nazarbayev University. The government seeks to position Kazakhstan as a credible global knowledge economy, but also use the university as a means of fulfilling domestic nation-building objectives. The paper discusses what it means to be a world-class university in this Continue reading
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How can open data inform public policy?
Creso and Julieta Grieco published “Open Data for Science, Policy, and the Public Good”, which examines the unlikely case of Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research’s transition toward an open data model. The paper tackles this case through a political and cultural lens pertaining to Brazil’s history of science-policy dialogue and public accessibility of open data. Continue reading
About
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.
Creso Sá 