Lessons from the Bayh-Dole Act

and other industrial policy recommendations from the Institute for Research on Public Policy

Sep 30 • 

Kyle Briggs

3

August 2025

SR&ED Legislation Draft: A Small Step Forward

Updates to SR&ED are welcome and positive, but are still missing the structural elements that would make SR&ED more efficient

Aug 27 • 

Kyle Briggs

3

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Improving Coordination in Canadian Innovation Funding

BOREALIS is the latest proposal in a long line of proposals, and for it to move the needle, we need to learn from past mistakes

Aug 13 • 

Kyle Briggs

6

July 2025

Now or Never: Interviews with Canadian Quantum Computing Leadership

Securing Canada's quantum computing future requires immediate public sector follow-through on recent commitments

Jul 15 • 

Kyle Briggs

1

Reflections on QUANTUM NOW | ICI QUANTIQUE

Canada has a small window of opportunity to cement its quantum advantage

Jul 2 • 

Kyle Briggs

4

2

June 2025

A Conversation with the CEO of Innovate Calgary

John Wilson shares experience and insight from a career commercializing technologies emerging from university research in the UK and Canada

Jun 10 • 

Kyle Briggs

5

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May 2025

Mandates, Mandates Everywhere

and not much time to think

May 27 • 

Kyle Briggs

4

4

Embracing Risk Part II: Self-fulfilling Prophecies

Risk-intolerant investing drives a negative feedback loop that causes real underperformance

May 13

7

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SAIL Version 3

Financial model updates, axiom clarifications, detailed guidance, and more!

May 5 • 

Kyle Briggs

2

April 2025

Embracing Risk

Successful incubation of emerging technologies is a numbers game, but we keep trying to pick winners

Apr 29 • 

Kyle Briggs

8

4

Failure Analysis of BDCs Deep Tech Fund

I wish my previous article had not been so immediately relevant...

Apr 15 • 

Kyle Briggs

8

The Impact of Survivorship Bias on Innovation Policy

There is often more to learn from failure than from success

Apr 2 • 

Kyle Briggs

9