Innovation Network Policy in Canada: Federal and Provincial Differences

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dc.contributor.advisorCohn, Daniel
dc.contributor.authorRasky, Elia Daniel
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-18T21:28:37Z
dc.date.available2024-07-18T21:28:37Z
dc.date.copyright2024-05-08
dc.date.issued2024-07-18
dc.date.updated2024-07-18T21:28:36Z
dc.degree.disciplinePolitical Science
dc.degree.levelDoctoral
dc.degree.namePhD - Doctor of Philosophy
dc.description.abstractInnovation network policy is a type of industrial policy that first emerged in the 1980s. The goal of innovation network policy is to establish connections between private enterprises, universities, public research institutions, and other innovative organizations, thereby stimulating collaborative innovative activity. In Canada, both federal and provincial governments have fully embraced this form of industrial policy, forging inter-organizational connections through a variety of policy tools and programs. Some of these programs fund collaborative research projects and research consortia that bring together innovative organizations across the country. Others create and fund physical innovation spaces, such as innovation hubs, technology incubators, and science parks. Although many Canadian scholars have examined federal and provincial innovation network programs, none have ever compared them in a rigorous and systematic way. This dissertation seeks to conduct such a comparison; using qualitative research methods, it aims to determine whether federal and provincial innovation network programs are different from each other and, if so, why. The main finding is that federal and provincial programs are, in fact, different in two key ways. First, they target innovative organizations in different industries or areas of technology. Second, they both fund physical innovation spaces, but do so in different ways; federal programs provide these spaces with capital funding, while provincial programs provide them with operational funding. These differences in policy approach reflect the different geopolitical and historical-institutional realities facing federal and provincial governments.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10315/42200
dc.languageen
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dc.subjectPolitical Science
dc.subjectPublic policy
dc.subjectCanadian history
dc.subject.keywordsCanada
dc.subject.keywordsOntario
dc.subject.keywordsAlberta
dc.subject.keywordsInnovation
dc.subject.keywordsInnovation policy
dc.subject.keywordsInnovation network policy
dc.subject.keywordsCanadian innovation policy
dc.subject.keywordsCanadian innovation network policy
dc.subject.keywordsInnovation programs
dc.subject.keywordsInnovation network programs
dc.subject.keywordsInnovation network
dc.subject.keywordsInnovation networks
dc.subject.keywordsInnovation clusters
dc.subject.keywordsTechnology incubators
dc.subject.keywordsTechnology accelerators
dc.subject.keywordsIndustrial policy
dc.subject.keywordsCanadian industrial policy
dc.subject.keywordsNew industrial policy
dc.subject.keywordsCanadian economic history
dc.subject.keywordsHistory of Ontario
dc.subject.keywordsHistory of Alberta
dc.subject.keywordsNational Research Council
dc.subject.keywordsCanada Foundation for Innovation
dc.subject.keywordsGenome Canada
dc.subject.keywordsGranting Councils
dc.subject.keywordsCanadian Institutes of Health Research
dc.subject.keywordsNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council
dc.subject.keywordsRegional Development Agencies
dc.subject.keywordsFederal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario
dc.subject.keywordsFedDev Ontario
dc.subject.keywordsAtlantic Canada Opportunities Agency
dc.subject.keywordsACOA
dc.subject.keywordsOntario Centre of Innovation
dc.subject.keywordsOntario Centres of Excellence
dc.subject.keywordsNorthern Ontario Heritage Fund Corporation
dc.subject.keywordsAlberta Innovates
dc.subject.keywordsTechnology Partnerships Canada
dc.subject.keywordsNetworks of Centres of Excellence
dc.subject.keywordsInnovation Supercluster Initiative
dc.subject.keywordsGlobal Innovation Clusters
dc.subject.keywordsStrategic Innovation Fund
dc.subject.keywordsRegional Innovation Centres
dc.subject.keywordsRegional Innovation Networks
dc.subject.keywordsAlberta Heritage Foundation for Science and Engineering
dc.subject.keywordsMaRS Centre
dc.subject.keywordsCommunitech
dc.subject.keywordsResearch laboratories
dc.subject.keywordsPath dependency
dc.subject.keywordsNew institutionalism
dc.subject.keywordsScience and technology
dc.subject.keywordsScience and technology policy
dc.subject.keywordsRegional conflict
dc.subject.keywordsNational Energy Program
dc.subject.keywordsProvincial innovation policy
dc.subject.keywordsIntergovernmental relations
dc.subject.keywordsFederalism
dc.subject.keywordsMultilevel governance
dc.subject.keywordsLocal economic development corporations
dc.subject.keywordsMunicipal governments
dc.subject.keywordsMunicipal-provincial relations
dc.subject.keywordsComparative public policy
dc.subject.keywordsTechnopoles
dc.subject.keywordsSchumpeter
dc.titleInnovation Network Policy in Canada: Federal and Provincial Differences
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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