Health committee  I have an observation, and that is when we come to setting out this economy of innovation, we forget one of the other players, which is a fairly large player in the field of health sector research: the private non-profit foundations. The interesting thing about a private non-prof

Health committee  The quick answer would be hospitals themselves are probably these intermediary institutions anyway. So the question then comes, how do you get that sort of research pool, how do you get hospitals going back to the university saying, come on, we need this piece of research to do s

Health committee  Thank you. I have two quick answers to that. I've already been asked that question by the Government of British Columbia. My answer was that I'm not certain you can teach people to be innovators. I have this feeling that there is some kind of innate ability to innovate and that t

Health committee  Thank you. Whose responsibility is it for trying to bring together the question of intellectual property? This was really the same sort of question in relationship to ethics. Ethics is a mixture of social norms, cultural norms, and provincial and federal law. In the end, this w

Health committee  Madam Chair and committee, thank you very much for inviting me to speak on the evaluation and promotion of innovation. You've heard from a number of eminent practitioners of innovation and innovation management in the health sector in Canada. As a researcher in innovation and th