Canada's innovation gap

For Canada's economic recovery to be successful, the country will need to lean on innovative technology to increase its competitiveness in both local and international markets. Canada has many great research institutions doing fundamental science in the fields of AI, Med-tech, Clean-tech, Industry 4.0 and Quantum computing. But how are we at commercializing these technologies? On this episode of Market Hunt we chat with Suzanne Grant, CEO of the Canadian Advanced Technology Alliance (CATA).

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Suzanne Grant is the CEO of the Canadian Advanced Technology Alliance. The Alliance is a group of C-Suite  leaders who accelerate the adoption and export of Canadian emerging technologies. CATAAlliance creates pathways to people, opportunities and funds, enhances private and public policy collaboration, and amplifies the brand of Canadian Technology. Suzanne is also Co-Chair of the E-Crimes and Cyber Council, a joint body of the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police & CATAAlliance. She was previously co-founder and Chair of the medical technology early stage company iBionics. Suzanne started her career as an engineering officer in the Canadian military.

Episode Links:

In order of appearance: 

Canada’s Innovation Gap

Canadian Advanced Technology Alliance (CATA)

Suzanne Grant

Bitaccess

Y Combinator

Ie-Knowledge Hub : Bitaccess Case Study

John Reid

Resilience and Rebound Fund

Statistics Canada

National Research Council of Canada

Mitacs

Canadian Technology Accelerators

Canadian Microsystems

Canadian Superclusters initiative

TECHNATION

Canadian Council of Innovators

Canadian Council of Innovators Letter - Prime Minister Trudeau

Justin Kan

Twitch.tv

Show Credits:

Market Hunt is produced by Cartouche Media in collaboration with Seratone Studios in Montreal and Popup Podcasting in Ottawa. 

Market Hunt is part of the International Entrepreneurship Knowledge Hub network.  Funding for this program comes from the Social Sciences and Humanities Resource Council of Canada.

Executive Producers: Hamid Etemad, McGill University Desautels Faculty of Management and Hamed Motaghi, Université du Québec en Outaouais. 

Associate Producer, Jose Orlando Montes, Université du Québec à Montréal.

Technical Producers Simon Petraki, Seratone Studio and Lisa Querido, Pop up Podcasting. 

Show consultant, JP Davidson. Artwork by Melissa Gendron. Voiceover: Katie Harrington.

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