We talk a lot about the economic value of intellectual property, when what we should be talking about is socio-economic value. Top social science researchers can be found in colleges, polytechnics and universities in Quebec and Canada. Support is needed to bridge the gap between basic research and applied research. Additional funding is also needed to support knowledge transfer to interested stakeholders, in other words, not-for-profit organizations and organizations with limited means but the ability to access broad segments of the population. In many cases, they include vulnerable groups in society who have been shunted aside, as well as professional settings that are very much in need of social and societal improvements. Health care, in particular, comes to mind. The focus is on managing disease, not on managing health. If we want to manage health, we have to focus on social innovation pre-technology.
On April 18th, 2023. See this statement in context.