This latest podcast from the Public Policy Forum will take you on a journey through sticky policy topics of the day. We'll dive deep together and come up the other side with a better understanding of the landscape, the background and the policy options before us, and we'll do it in three short episodes per topic.

In the first episode of this series, we try to understand what Canada’s innovation agenda needs to do to level the playing field. In 2018, Canada ranked 12th out of 16 in all OECD nations on the Innovation Scorecard.  In this first series, we focus on innovation policy.

We’re joined by Sue Paish (CEO of Canada’s Digital Technology Supercluster), Navdeep Bains (Vice-Chair of Global Investment and the former minister of Innovation, Science Economic Development), Sarah Doyle (Chief of Staff to Mariana Mazzucato), John Knubley (former deputy minister of Innovation, Science Economic Development), Sean Speer (PPF Scotiabank Fellow in Strategic Competitiveness at the Public Policy Forum ) and Robert Asselin (Senior Vice-President, Policy at the Business Council of Canada).

Next week, we'll be back with the big picture for Canada's innovation policy right now and in two weeks time will wrap up talking about the proposal for CARPA, a Canadian advanced research agency.

After that, we'll be exploring a new topic in the next Deep Takes series.

This latest podcast from the Public Policy Forum takes you on a journey through sticky policy topics of the day. We dive deep together and come up the other side with a better understanding of the landscape, the background and the policy options before us, and we do it in three short episodes per topic.

This first series focuses on innovation policy. In the second episode of this series, we look at how COVID-19 showed us what was possible in Canadian innovation and how we can take the lessons of a ‘mission’ to refocus our innovation policy as a whole.  We’re joined by Sue Paish (CEO of Canada’s Digital Technology Supercluster), Navdeep Bains (Vice-Chair of Global Investment and the former minister of Innovation, Science Economic Development), Sarah Doyle (Chief of Staff to Mariana Mazzucato), John Knubley (former deputy minister of Innovation, Science Economic Development), Sean Speer (PPF Scotiabank Fellow in Strategic Competitiveness at the Public Policy Forum ) and Robert Asselin (Senior Vice-President, Policy at the Business Council of Canada).

Next week, we'll be back talking about the proposal for CARPA, a Canadian advanced research agency.