OTTAWA — The federal government’s latest innovation program isn’t the answer to Canada’s long-running economic problems of stagnant productivity and lacklustre business innovation, one of its architects says. But Dan Breznitz is betting the Canada Innovation Corporation (CIC) can be an answer.
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