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Friday Reading Roundup #12

Thinking about... Shareholder Primacy and Innovation

What would you like me to write about?

January-June Book Reading Roundup

“Corporate Carney” is following the wrong playbook

We're dealing with a Fascist America. When are we going to understand that?

Thinking about... sovereign innovation capacity

What I wish I had said on TV

Friday Reading Roundup #11

Zohran Mamdani's Politics of Care

A Rant About Linear Models of Innovation

Friday Reading Roundup #10

What About Taxing Our Way To Innovation?

[Vacation Repost] "Innovation Thrives on Diversity"

[Vacation Repost] Change In Practice: Developing Impact Narratives for Collective Action

[Vacation Repost] The Stories We Tell Create And Sustain Our Agency To Make Change

[Vacation Repost] Empower Canada’s Workers to Deliver AI's Productivity Promise

[Vacation Repost] A defence and a criticism of FDI in Canada

[Vacation Repost] Accelerating Commercialization: Adoption Readiness Levels

"At the Trough": Laurent Carbonneau on Fixing Canada's Flawed Economic Policy

Friday Reading Roundup #9

Beyond Elitist Self-Soothing

Making Innovation Programs More Accessible for Innovators

Friday Reading Roundup #8

Building Collective Capacity for Change

Friday Reading Roundup #7

Innovate? In this economy? With these profit margins?

Diving into "A Mandate to Innovate"

Friday Reading Roundup #6

Change In Practice: Collective Sensemaking

Liberal Platform Deep Dive

Friday Reading Roundup #5

Change In Practice: Developing Impact Narratives for Collective Action

Empowering the Edges: Igniting Change Beyond Government

Friday Reading Roundup #4

The Politics of Blame Avoidance: Why Bold Visions Often Fall Short

The Shadow of AI: Digital Colonialism and the Erosion of Agency

Thinking Beyond Innovation Policy

Friday Reading Roundup #3

The Role of Intermediaries in a Looming Recession

Beyond Tariffs: Considering the Impacts of the Trade War on Innovative Companies

Friday Reading Roundup #2

Imagining and Realizing New Futures

Rebuilding our Research Foundations

Friday Reading Roundup

Deep Dives: Six Months & Beyond

Balancing Regulation and Growth

A Man for the Moment?

The Opening Policy Window

Energy Abundance, AI in Government, and AI and Workers

"Hope as Prologue and Hope as Epilogue"

Does using AI give you more time?

The End of Business as Usual

Canada's Broken Immigration System and Leveraging AI for Science

Yes, we have an innovation paradox, but we need to address our policy paradox first

The Need for Government Reform and The Quixotic Quest for AI Solutions

Revisiting The Mandates and Missions of Our Institutions

The Overdue Services Shift

Inclusive Innovation, SME Productivity and Much More

Canada Must Look Beyond Our Borders To Meet This Moment

Chaos, Economic Security, and Policy Choices

DeepSeek Shows Why Canada's AI Strategy Is Off-Track

Keep your eye on the ball: Trump, Distraction Politics & Substantive Change

The UK's AI Opportunity?

"Innovation Thrives on Diversity"

The Future of Bidenomics

The Stories We Tell Create And Sustain Our Agency To Make Change

Things I'm Keeping An Eye On