During Earth Week, The Transition Accelerator announced the launch of the new Centre for Industrial Policy (CIP), which will be co-chaired by Lawson Climate Institute Member David A. Wolfe, Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Toronto Mississauga and Co-Director of the Innovation Policy Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy.
During the launch event, Professor Bentley Allen (Johns Hopkins University), who serves as Vice President, Future Economy at The Transition Accelerator, presented the mission and vision of the centre and led a workshop to engage the audience with the centre’s mandate and future outlook.
Canada’s nation-building mission hinges on ambitious industrial strategies for defence, housing, automotive, and critical minerals. Building competitive industries is difficult enough, but these strategies also must achieve multiple goals at once, diversifying trade, securing geopolitical autonomy, achieving climate competitiveness, and producing tangible economic benefits for Canadians.
To deliver, Canada needs integrated analysis informed by high-quality information. The Centre for Industrial Policy will work with the country’s best analytical talent to understand what’s working and what’s missing in Canada’s economic strategy. It will connect systems-level strategy to innovative indicators that track progress towards tractable goals.
The CIP exists to bring the bigger picture into focus, helping create a more ambitious vision for Canada’s economic future, and supporting implementation by translating that vision into smart policy design.
“Canada’s competitive advantage lies in strategically mapping and connecting our strengths in R&D, natural resources, and advanced manufacturing with the priorities of global industries. By aligning these capabilities with international investment interests, we can unlock sustained, organic investment opportunities, accelerate innovation, and create high-value jobs across the country which is at the core of what CIP is set up to accomplish,” said Shatha Qaqish-Clavering, who attended the launch of the CIP in Ottawa on behalf of the Lawson Climate Institute. “We are also incredibly proud of Professor David Wolfe’s leadership and engagement with CIP.”
An initiative of The Transition Accelerator, the CIP will be built on collaborations with industry, civil society, government, Indigenous communities and organizations, and other experts.
Learn more at: centreforindustrialpolicy.ca.