Sep 11, 2019
Colour creativity and social change
face2face
Ruth Lande Shuman talks about creativity and change, our inner artists, the deprivation of colour, empowerment and Pepto Bismol pink, and the potential for social change.
innovation
Nov 17, 2017
Innovation or inertia? Unpacking the federal government’s shortlist for the innovation superclusters
The Liberal government continues to use a technocratic definition of innovation. Real change demands a deeper understanding of innovation and real investment in food policy.
Mar 23, 2017
Clean innovation on West Coast could help power Canada's clean-growth century
Stephen Hui
Squamish's example shows that clean growth isn't just for urban centres. There are plenty of opportunities for logging and mining towns in transition to lead Canada's shift to a clean economy.
May 6, 2016
Canada's 'innovation agenda' isn't just tech -- it's social
Tonya Surman
Victoria Lennox
Canada's "innovation agenda" has to go beyond high-tech companies and attempting to replicate Silicon Valley. "Day on the Hill" brings message to Parliamentarians.
Mar 14, 2016
Uber and the fickle mantle of innovation
Erika Shaker
Innovation™ has become both a rebranding exercise and an apology for a host of regressive corporate practices that look suspiciously like business as usual.
Jan 27, 2016
Technology, journalism and the disruption of business as usual
A lot of thinking about disruption in general, and the disruption of the newsroom in particular, is facile and just plain wrongheaded.
Jul 29, 2015
The tale of the tape: Uber vs. the taxis
Why is an Uber car like a Betamax tape? Answer: both are disruptive innovations. And both are being dealt with by incumbent industries in exactly the same way -- with mindless blunt force.
Aug 13, 2014
Consumer electronics and the miracle of materials
Who, three decades ago, would have imagined that the materials that would change consumer electronics would be glass, ABS plastic, sapphire, graphite and aluminum?
May 13, 2014
Internet slow lane? Worst. Idea. Ever.
Eva Prkachin
The FCC is holding a meeting that could allow Big Telecom to impose expensive new fees on smaller websites, effectively creating an Internet slow lane for everyone except deep-pocket conglomerates.
Nov 12, 2013
Book: The Entrepreneurial State
Redeye
The conventional wisdom says the private sector determines what gets created, then the marketplace determines success or failure of those products. Mariana Mazucatto says that's not how it works.
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