The National Research Council in the innovation policy era : changing hierarchies, networks and markets /

In this first in-depth examination of the governance of the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) in over twenty-five years, G. Bruce Doern and Richard Levesque show how the agency's history is interwoven with the evolution of Canada's economic and industrial development and with the f...

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Main Author: Doern, G. Bruce, 1942-
Corporate Author: Institute of Public Administration of Canada
Other Authors: Levesque, Richard, 1970-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press, 2002
Series:Institute of Public Administration of Canada series in public management and governance.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Macro Framework Issues, Historical Context, and Institutional Change
  • Fostering Change: Innovation and Institutions as a Dual Analytical Framework
  • The NRC in Historical Context
  • The NRC in the Past Decade: A Closer Look at Institutional Change
  • NRC Institutes and Programs: Institutional Change at the Mezzo and Micro Levels of Innovation
  • The Biotechnology Research Institute
  • The Institute for Research in Construction
  • The Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics
  • The Industrial Research Assistance Program: Advice, Networks, and Money
  • National and Local Innovation Systems and the NRC's Competitor-Partner Institutions.