The most important high-level driver of productivity is innovation, which is itself the result of complex and poorly understood interactions between research and development, education, investment and a host of other factors. The goal of this project is to examine the channels by which efforts to improve Canada's innovation performance can result in productivity improvements.

Studies in progress:

• Improving university-industry technology transfer in Canada
• Public infrastructure and Canadian manufacturing productivity

Studies published to date:

• Innovation and the Productivity Problem: Any Solutions?
  Donald McFetridge
  Choices, April 2008