Last Thursday, Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Navdeep Bains introduced the five winners of the federal government’s Innovation Superclusters Initiative (ISI), officially bestowing five of Canada’s fastest-growing sectors with government support.
Yet as the five superclusters, which include projects designed to promote collaboration between academia and the private sector in artificial intelligence (AI), advanced manufacturing, and smart agriculture, take shape, a number of key questions around policy and business weigh heavily on the minds of the public.
