Dr. Jorge Niosi
Biography:
Jorge Niosi is Professor in the Department of Management and Technology at the Université du Québec à Montréal since 1970 and Canada Research Chair on the Management of Technology since 2001. He is the author, co-author, editor or co-editor of 14 books published in Argentina, Canada, France, the United Kingdom and the United States, as well as some 60 articles in refereed journals including the Cambridge Journal of Economics, Industrial and Corporate Change, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Development Studies, Journal of Technology Transfer, Management International Review, Research Policy, R&D Management, Small Business Economics, Technovation and World Development. He has been guest editor of several journals including the Journal of Development Studies, Journal of Technology Transfer, Research Policy. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (Academy N. 1) since 1994, and appears in the Canadian Who’s Who, the International Authors and Writers Who’s Who (UK) and Contemporary Authors (USA). He has been a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University, a Visiting Professor at the Université de Paris on several occasions, a Fulbright Fellow, and has received several awards, including the John Porter Award. His work is widely cited. He has consulted for UNIDO, CIDA, IDRC, Industry Canada, Statistics Canada and other national and international agencies.
Abstract:
Completing Canada’s national system of innovation
Jorge Niosi
Canada Research Chair on the Management of Technology
Since World War II Canada has built a national system of innovation that includes world-class research universities, government laboratories, science, innovation and technology policy incentives, as well as thousands of innovative small firms, many of them spun off its research universities. However, the number of large innovative high-technology enterprises (SMEs) is small. The presentation suggests that Canada’s NSI needs to be upgraded with new incentives aimed at allowing high-tech SMEs to cross the “valley of death”. The US and Japan offer some interesting schemes that Canada should consider adopting.