Building Winners: Strategic Procurement in the Age of Innovation

Today CCI published its latest policy report: Building Winners: Strategic Procurement in the Age of Innovation. This new landmark policy report delves into economic policy and effective strategies for growth in the 21st century.

 Building Winners is authored by CCI Director of Policy and Research Laurent Carbonneau and Dan Ciuriak, fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) and the C.D. Howe Institute, and former Deputy Chief Economist and the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (now Global Affairs Canada). 

Throughout 2024, CCI has been undertaking a deep-dive into all aspects of government procurement. Our springtime report, Buying Ideas: Procuring Public Sector Innovation in Canada, explained why Canada’s procurement system is so prone to dysfunction, and how we can fix it.

In Building Winners, Dan and Laurent clearly lay out the reasons why Canadian policymakers must embrace procurement as a tool of industrial policy if we want to stay competitive and prosperous in the 21st century.

You can read the full report here: 

“Procurement is by far the most powerful tool in the government’s toolkit for propelling the growth of innovative Canadian companies. Throughout CCI’s history we have advocated for strategic government procurement as a tool for driving Canadian economic prosperity,” said CCI President Benjamin Bergen. 

 "As a CEO-driven organization, moments like today—where we effectively capture the challenges of the ecosystem and present governments with a clear path forward—reinforce the importance of the work we’re doing at CCI to help homegrown companies scale-up globally."

To mark the launch of Building Winners, earlier today CCI hosted a virtual launch event with the report authors, in conversation with CCI members Nicole Janssen, Co-CEO of AltaML; and Neil Desai, Board Chair of ClearRisk.

Voir la vidéo complète ici :

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About the Council of Canadian Innovators (CCI)

The Council of Canadian Innovators is a national member-based organization reshaping how governments across Canada think about innovation policy, and supporting homegrown scale-ups to drive prosperity.

Established in 2015, CCI represents and works with over 150 of Canada’s fastest-growing technology companies. Our members are the CEOs, founders, and top senior executives behind some of Canada’s most successful ‘scale-up’ companies. All our members are job and wealth creators, investors, philanthropists, and experts in their fields of health tech, cleantech, fintech, cybersecurity, AI and digital transformation. Companies in our portfolio are market leaders in their verticals, commercialize their technologies in over 190 countries, and generate between $10M-$750M in annual recurring revenue. We advocate on their behalf for government strategies that increase their access to skilled talent, strategic capital, and new customers, as well as expanded freedom to operate for their global pursuits of scale.

Learn more at www.canadianinnovators.org