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Couldn’t agree more. This is essential reading for government officials. Maybe they can find the time when they’re on a flight to cut the ribbon on another taxpayer funded, foreign-owned EV battery plant.

"In the knowledge-based economy, businesses do not invest their money where they don’t have freedom-to-operate (FTO) because in global value chains, investments without appropriate ownership of IP do not and cannot yield positive returns." nationalpost.com/opinion/an-out… National Post

What is the best strategic direction for Canada’s EV and battery investments? Canada has already committed to invest tens of billions into three foreign-owned battery plants. Andrew Coyne 🇺🇦🇮🇱 asked a lot of important questions about this choice in today’s The Globe and Mail. His questions

I support more funding for research but please stop saying universities do innovation. If they did, we’d had a very different economy. theglobeandmail.com/business/comme…

The latest from the Globe's business commentary, by Jim Hinton: In giving billions to electric car makers, Canada is blinded by economic delusion tgam.ca/48hcZUf

In giving billions to electric car makers, Canada is blinded by economic delusion theglobeandmail.com/business/comme…

"Policy makers incorrectly hope that these subsidies will create “good middle class” jobs..Yet most of the work at these factories will be done by machines – robots &automation technologies, with the value flowing to the foreign owners of the automation technology"Jim Hinton

"And we’ve seen in a recent Globe and Mail report how when publicly funded Canadian researchers invent great battery technology, Canada has ended up giving it all away." theglobeandmail.com/business/comme…

Canada’s electric vehicle manufacturing subsidies are not “investment” – they are economic illusions. Read my commentary in the The Globe and Mail

Jim Hinton The Globe and Mail Excellent op-ed with some important food for thought when it comes to Canada’s growth strategy

"Canadian parts manufacturers who supply these factories are not making high-margin proprietary technology for big companies but instead serve as low-cost manufacturers or developers for hire" François-Philippe Champagne (FPC) 🇨🇦 ISED

🇨🇦 Liberal Govt "has not shown any analysis of the positive and negative economic spillovers of billions of dollars from EV subsidies. Politicians praise the creation of jobs, regardless of reports that show Canada has no shortage of technical jobs." theglobeandmail.com/business/comme…

"...analysis needs to be grounded in the 21st century economy, not the economy of the 1970s." Jim Hinton (Jim Hinton) contrasts economic spillovers from traditional manufacturing with the imbalance(s) created through the reality of intangible assets and limitations of OEMs.

Canada revises tax regulations to ensure the nearly C$30 billion in financing offered to VW, Stellantis to build EV-battery plants are exempt from tax. On WSJ wires:

Was saddened to see the City of Kitchener purchase an Australian traffic count product to collect data near the Boathouse DTK rather than partnering Miovision, a local company used by thousands of municipalities across North America. On the bright side now Australia can create

This speech could have been written 30 years ago. Gesturing at something something IP and AI while offering the same old traditional  policy prescriptions from the same outdated toolkit is no way to address Canada’s productivity problems.

Trudeau announces AI spending plan to bolster Canadian infrastructure, computing capacity and safety theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…

I'd love to see the IP terms for these deals. If it is anything like the deals Canadian firms have to sign with the Feds, they should have to keep IP in Canada. E.g. SIF: contracts.justia.com/companies/d-wa…

Market capture appears to the term of the day, yet I am not hearing enough thought leaders openly discuss the roll of intellectual property, or lack thereof, when it comes to Canadian innovators in this space.

Tyler Meredith Let’s talk about IP, Tyler… always open for a call.