Steve Higham is a policy analyst with Mitacs. On the blog, he’ll frequently share links to interesting innovation policy-related articles, videos, podcasts, or websites. 

The Mitacs Policy Team has been keeping busy over the past few weeks:

• In May, Mitacs convened two panel discussions in Ottawa to explore the challenges and opportunities facing PhDs in Canada. Check out the Storify page to see what audience members thought/tweeted, and access the photo gallery here.
• A briefing on building effective IP policies to promote collaboration in BC was published on the Business Council of British Columbia website.
• A blog for our panel at Congress 2016 on the evolving role of the professor is live on the Congress website.

Beyond policy-specific topics, some other links that may be of interest are below:

• Women are significantly underrepresented on the boards of top venture firms, and probably not by coincidence, are less likely to get funded as entrepreneurs. What gives?
• The World Economic Forum highlights the relationship between investing in R&D and productivity, while in Canada, Statistics Canada data on anticipated spending shows a mixed bag, where GERD is up but BERD is down.
• ICYMI, Alex Usher wrote a post about the need to be clear about what we mean when we talk about “innovation.”

Thanks for reading!

Want to contribute to Steve’s Week in Policy? Send your feedback, ideas, or suggestions to shigham(at)mitacs.ca.