Intellectual Property Report

Rights and Rents

Why Canada must harness
its intellectual property resources

Karen Mazurkewich
October 2011

CIC’s IP Project

A nation that has prospered from its endowment of natural resources must now harness the most important resource of all: its intellectual property. To compete globally, Canada urgently needs to take a new approach to IP, devising a strategy that is anchored by a robust innovation framework and embedded both in the country’s domestic policy and in its international trade agenda.

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Why Canada must harness its intellectual property resources