David Jaffray, Ph.D
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Public Techna Discussions (moderated) 6 months agoWe have our work cut out for us! Check out the National Post article from last week.
http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/11/15/ontario-lacks-innovative-edge-report/
Is the perception that we are not innovators also apply to our contributions to healthcare?
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We need to think more about how we can use technology to measure the quality of cancer interventions. Quality is key for the individual patient, for the patient population, and for our clinical science to be productive. A remarkable alignment between patient-centred care, research, and innovation.
Technology to measure the actual quality,…[Read more]
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Provocative headline, but I was curious why the journalist chose to interpret Ontario’s per capita GDP as an measure of innovation. The fact that Ontario has lost 300,000 manufacturing jobs in the last few years might have something to do with it, The reoprt itself contains some curious data – including a graph labeled “Ontario’s businesses t…[Read more]
Just to add, the US GDP numbers in this article were converted to Canadian dollars using a rate of 1.20, thus pushing Ontario and Quebec to the bottom of the pile (the first user comment on the article has a good synopsis of this skewed conversion bias). If the report used the Bank of Canada average 2010 exchange rate of 1.0299, Ontario’s GDP is…[Read more]
Quick comment: I think the conversion rate used in the report was reasonable (see pdf at http://www.competeprosper.ca/index.php/work/annual_reports/prospects_for_ontarios_prosperity/)
given the USD/CAD fluctuations over the last decade or so (see http://www.oanda.com/currency/historical-rates/).
The report might be controversial but the data…[Read more]
Innovation seems to suddenly be the new hot thing. Couple of articles in the Globe yesterday and today. Simeshwar Rao in a new report from the Institute for Research on Public Policy recommends “The Canadian government should reorient its R&D programs in favour of direct grants rather than the current scientific research and experimental…[Read more]