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The canadian govt knows Canada lags in innovation

"Studies have repeatedly documented that business innovation in Canada lags behind other highly developed countries. This gap is of vital concern because innovation is the ultimate source of the long-term competitiveness of businesses and the quality of life of Canadians. The ability to conjure up new products and services, to find novel uses for existing products and to develop new markets*– these fruits of innovation are the tools that will ensure Canada's success in the twenty-first century."

http://rd-review.ca/eic/site/033.nsf/eng/00288.html#p3

http://m.theglobeandmail.com/report...innovation-gap/article1368640/?service=mobile

Canada also producs far fewer engineers than other countries:

"By combining all three of these measures, we end up with an overall Global Technology Index, a broad assessment of the technological and innovative capabilities of the world’s leading nations. The United States ranks third. Finland takes the top spot, followed by Japan. Israel’s fourth place finish may come as a surprise to some. But as Dan Senor and Saul Singer argue in Start-up Nation,*Israel has relentlessly pursued an economic development strategy based on launching innovative firms. Israel has the highest concentration of engineers in the world—135 per 10,000 people, compared to 85 per 10,000 people in the United States. Sweden, Switzerland, Denmark, Korea, Germany, and Singapore round out the top ten."

http://m.theatlanticcities.com/tech...eading-nations-innovation-and-technology/224/
 
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Ok.. we invented the first smartphone anyone actually bought.. and I don't believe the simon even received email..it was an electronic organizer that make phone calls.
 
Not as far as I'm aware.. Palm had many digital organizers on which you could USB sync your email from your computer to read on the go, but they didn't have modems in them and thus didn't receive anything over wireless.. less then useless. I BELIEVE Palm's first to receive wireless email was the treo.. and that was quite a while after the first blackberry.

EDIT: Yup, Palm launched the treo in 2002 as their first device to receive email over wireless. RIM launched the first blackberry in 1999
 
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killerkeith said:
We invented the ****ing smart phone! The very thing we are debating! Please exit this thread.
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Aha...no. And as for prescription drugs that's a prime example of what I'm talking about...we're really good in Canada at using other people's IP to make generic drugs. That's great, as a socialist I find that a pretty good thing to do for society. I'd love it though if there was a push to develop our own drugs. We have the smarts, we have the people, we just keep losing them to other countries.
 
Lol I almost forgot...RIM spent a large chunk of it's time paying off the patent infringements it broke for its "inventions".
 
jc100 said:
Aha...no. And as for prescription drugs that's a prime example of what I'm talking about...we're really good in Canada at using other people's IP to make generic drugs. That's great, as a socialist I find that a pretty good thing to do for society. I'd love it though if there was a push to develop our own drugs. We have the smarts, we have the people, we just keep losing them to other countries.
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And when we do develop our own drugs, you would be ok with every other country taking that IP and making their own version without paying a dime?
Thats what I read.
 
CruisnGrrl said:
Saw the Super Bowl commercial and gotta say "meh".
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Its ranked #1 out of all the commercials from the super bowl on nfl.com - Not that if the commercial was bad that would reflect on the product, or likewise that it was good.. but still, pretty cool.

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[video=youtube_share;UPbhzmIq9uU]http://youtu.be/UPbhzmIq9uU[/video]
 
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jc100 said:
Aha...no. And as for prescription drugs that's a prime example of what I'm talking about...we're really good in Canada at using other people's IP to make generic drugs. That's great, as a socialist I find that a pretty good thing to do for society. I'd love it though if there was a push to develop our own drugs. We have the smarts, we have the people, we just keep losing them to other countries.
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Im pretty sure I don't know as much about the world of perscription drugs as you do but from my observations it would seem to me that those involved in that industry would naturally go to where the money is. Given how much our neighbours to the south love unnecessarily medicating themselves with perscription drugs, its not surprising that Canada would lose talent to the US since that industry is so much larger and albiet so much more dirty than whats in Canada. I mean, they got kids taking statins to lower cholesterol and that is just insanity.
 
OpenGambit said:
And when we do develop our own drugs, you would be ok with every other country taking that IP and making their own version without paying a dime?
Thats what I read.
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You read wrong...after 20 years anyone can do that with any IP. Generic drugs are generally produced after the initial patent expires (sometimes well after when litigation is finished).
 
toshison said:
Im pretty sure I don't know as much about the world of perscription drugs as you do but from my observations it would seem to me that those involved in that industry would naturally go to where the money is. Given how much our neighbours to the south love unnecessarily medicating themselves with perscription drugs, its not surprising that Canada would lose talent to the US since that industry is so much larger and albiet so much more dirty than whats in Canada. I mean, they got kids taking statins to lower cholesterol and that is just insanity.
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Having a drug make its way onto the prescription medicine list in a socialised healthcare system is also reasonably lucrative if priced correctly. The trick is to make sure it is new and doesn't have a cheaper alternative already on the market and could be used to treat a large number of people.....either that or it has to be a drug used to treat a condition that is very rare (orphan drug status).
 
Neat to see the 'making of' the commercial too..

[video=youtube_share;UQihunfO9Jw]http://youtu.be/UQihunfO9Jw[/video]
 
just_luc said:
Its ranked #1 out of all the commercials from the super bowl on nfl.com - Not that if the commercial was bad that would reflect on the product, or likewise that it was good.. but still, pretty cool.

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meh is right. Showed me some nonsense, in a dope di dope goofy fashion. Not hip, not current, not cool.....like a lame axe commercial or something. That was ranked #1 Superbowl commercial? Why exactly?

Good for them for finally getting a high profile commercial out there, but minus points for it being like a Capital One Card commercial..."What's in your pocket?".

[video=youtube;8iVCfYQPUUI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iVCfYQPUUI[/video] Even these have improved over the years, but they're still lame.
 
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awyala said:
just_luc said:
Its ranked #1 out of all the commercials from the super bowl on nfl.com - Not that if the commercial was bad that would reflect on the product, or likewise that it was good.. but still, pretty cool.

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meh is right. Showed me some nonsense, in a dope di dope goofy fashion. Not hip, not current, not cool.....like a lame axe commercial or something. That was ranked #1 Superbowl commercial? Why exactly?

Good for them for finally getting a high profile commercial out there, but minus points for it being like a Capital One Card commercial..."What's in your pocket?".

Even these have improved over the years, but they're still lame.
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This would have been a better take on that whole walking around the city going about your day theme. Something ballzy and edgy with a cool sort of fun. Not some goofy looking David Shwimmer with his head in his phone in some uninspiring moments.

[video=youtube;k1KGX6zu2rk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1KGX6zu2rk[/video]
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