Accelerating Canadian Productivity Growth Stimulating Innovation through 4th Pillar Organizations

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Accelerating CanadianProductivity
GrowthStimulating Innovationthrough4th Pillar
Organizations
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Purpose

• Outline role of 4th Pillar organizations
• The Need
• Value propositions
• Recommendation
• Additional statement of purpose customized to
  audience

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Our Recommendation

• Within a policy framework focused on improving
  economic and social returns from research
  investment,
• Strategically utilize 4th Pillar organizations,
  building on successful models
• Establish long-term commitment to sustain their
  effectiveness
• Maintain effective performance reviews demanding
  high degrees of accountability

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National Summiton Innovation and
LearningImproving Research, Development and
CommercializationPriority Recommendation No. 1

•    Enable the relationship between the receptor
  community and universities, colleges and
  researchers.
• Strengthen receptor capacity.

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Canadas Innovation Challenge

• Innovation underpins productivity growth
• but our performance lags behind other countries
• Innovation underpins other national priorities
• e.g. Kyoto, health, security
• Innovation capacity boosted, especially in
  universities, but a gap remains
• need to reap commercial and social returns from
  research

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Canadas RD Intensity Lags

• Overall RD investment well below OECD average
• Governments share above OECD average, growing
  again following period of decline
• RD financing by private sector remains primary
  area of concern
• well below OECD average despite generous tax
  incentives
• dominated by a few large firms, therefore very
  vulnerable to business cycles

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What Remains to Be Done?

• Canadians look to government to do more
• National Summit recommendations
• Strengthen research and business collaboration,
  especially receptor capacity and
  commercialization
• Establish clusters and managed networks
• Utilize 4th Pillar organizations to facilitate
  partnerships
• Strengthen university infrastructure
• Focus on platform technology development
• Stimulation of private sector RD

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What are 4th Pillar Organizations?

• Catalysts and facilitators among the other three
  pillars industry, university, government
• Focused on specialized technologies with broad
  applications
• Independent, not-for-profit, market-sensitive,
  agile
• Fully accountable to funders

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4th Pillar Organizations areCatalysts and
Facilitators

• Bring together communities of interest
• Lever public and private investments
• Create national vision for RD excellence
• Build RD collaborations
• Supply research-enabling products and services
• Develop, attract and retain highly qualified
  people
• Bridge governmental, sectoral and geographic
  divides

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4th Pillar OrganizationsHelping to Build a 21st
Century Economy

• Improving the productivity of, and returns from,
  research
• Accelerating the development of highly qualified
  people
• Fostering growth of SMEs
• Facilitating the flow of capital and other
  business resources
• Fuelling the growth of emerging sectors

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Proven Benefits

• 4th Pillar organizations help reduce the risks
  and
• costs of RD
• Accelerate product development - faster time to
  market
• Produce higher quality products and services
• Create jobs
• Increase production of high-value, high-knowledge
  components of many export commodities
• Develop new expertise
• Build multi-disciplinary teams
• Drive breakthrough research and discovery

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Three Examples

• CMC Microsystems research infrastructure and
  services
• Precarn Collaborative intelligent systems
  development
• CANARIE Advanced Internet infrastructure and
  applications development

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Value for Ministers

• Vehicle for organizational and program
  innovations
• Fully accountable
• Market-sensitive stewardship of public funds
• High levels of leverage
• Consolidated, simplified funds management
• Source of intelligence and advice

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Value for Industry and Business

• Reduced risks and costs of RD
• Access to
• Technologies, ideas and people
• Infrastructure
• Partners
• Funding
• Commercialization services
• Trusted brokerage of collaborations
• Compression of the technology learning curve

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Value for Universities and Colleges

• Research partners and funding
• Commercialization opportunities
• Competitive intelligence
• Career channels for students
• Enhanced profile for researchers

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Value for Government Laboratories

• Access to
• Collaboration partners
• Communities of interest
• Commercialization channels
• Leverage of RD resources
• New business relationships
• Positioning relative to government priorities

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An Opportunity to Work Together

• CANARIE, CMC, Precarn share goals and vision
• Convergence of technologies and networks
• Opportunity to help close innovation gap
• Opportunity to lead national response, working
  with others

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Our Commitment

• Forge new strategic partnerships with government
• Tie funding commitments to national priorities
• Jointly develop strategies
• Sources of information, intelligence and advice
• Strengthen and mobilize our networks
• Adapt programs, services and structures to market
  needs
• Include commercialization players in active roles
• Celebrate and publicize success
• Collaborate