Ideas for Sale: Why IP Is a Symptom, Not a Cause, of Canada’s Failure to Scale

Ideas for Sale: Why IP Is a Symptom, Not a Cause, of Canada’s Failure to Scale

Innovation and Technology
Pages:11 pages15 min read

Author: The Conference Board of Canada

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Foreign owners are grabbing up Canadian intellectual property through mergers and acquisitions. This research explores what this “leakage” of IP suggests about the health of the Canadian technology ecosystem.

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Originally produced for the Innovation Economy Council (IEC), this research looks at how high demand for Canadian intellectual property is a sign of a healthy technology ecosystem. The IEC is now The Conference Board of Canada’s Canadian Centre for the Innovation Economy (CCIE)

What challenges do Canadian startups typically face in their efforts to scale up and commercialize their innovations? How does the trend of foreign ownership of intellectual property impact the growth and sustainability of Canada’s startup sector? How is the flight of intellectual property from Canada not a hollowing-out of Canada’s start-up sector?

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