Innovation, Science, Environment

by Doern, G. Bruce

• ISBN13: 9780773530621
• ISBN10: 0773530622
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-03-01
• Publisher: McGill Queens Univ

Summary

Inter-disciplinary essays on ISE and related sustainable development policy priorities of the federal government.

Table of Contents

The Martin liberals : changing ISE policies and institutions	p. 3
The innovation challenge and the National Research Council response	p. 35
Canadian and UK innovation policies : a comparative analysis	p. 59
The federal sustainable development strategy process : why incrementalism is not enough	p. 82
The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council as a granting and competitiveness-innovation body	p. 105
The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council : from a granting council to a knowledge council?	p. 127
Changing horses : is the innovation strategy working for the mineral sector?	p. 149
Commercializing technologies through collaborative networks : the environmental industry and the role of CETACS	p. 169
Source water protection in Canada : local innovation and multi-level governance	p. 194
Information disclosure as an environmental policy instrument and self-regulatory tool	p. 213
Canadian and comparative science and technology data	p. 235
Selected environmental indicators	p. 240
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