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Budget 2018: Key takeaways for a stronger, cleaner economy

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February 28, 2017

By Katherine Monahan, Will Scott, and Scott McFatridge

This post is from Smart Prosperity Institute's Circular Economy Guest Blog Series. To learn more about the circular economy in Canada, check out our new Policy Brief. Interested in contributing to this series?

February 7, 2018

By Sara Jane O'Neill

February 19, 2018

The Municipal Natural Assets Initiative aims to equip local governments across Canada with the tools needed to identify and account for natural assets at the community level, as well as the best practice guidelines for working with community stakeholders to increase natural asset management.

February 2, 2018

By Scott McFatridge

January 8, 2019

This Policy Brief is the first in a Smart Prosperity Institute series on the circular economy and Canada. It is an introduction to the circular economy concepts and landscape, written for both government and business audiences.

Key Messages:

This post is from Smart Prosperity Institute's Circular Economy Guest Blog Series. To learn more about the circular economy in Canada, check out our new Policy Brief. Interested in contributing to this series?

This post is from Smart Prosperity Institute's Circular Economy Guest Blog Series. To learn more about the circular economy in Canada, check out our new Policy Brief. Interested in contributing to this series?

We at Smart Prosperity Institute have been doing a lot of thinking about clean innovation. Stay tuned for our comprehensive 150-page playbook on how governments can accelerate clean innovation across all sectors of the Canadian economy, out this spring.

January 16, 2018

By Will Scott

While you may not see it at this year’s winter Olympics, the clean innovation race is on.

January 2018

The paper examines existing models for the design and implementation of government support of business innovation and explores different policy approaches and their impacts including the role of policy mix and multi-level governance.

Author:

David A. Wolfe, Innovation Policy Lab, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto

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