The unit will instead mimic Finnish and Israeli agencies. But some researchers worry Canada might be too big and regionalized for the scheme to succeed.
, but were awarded Can$750 million in the fiscal year 2022 budget to continue their work for another six years.
The Canadian government plans to announce more details about the agency before the end of the year, after further consultations with stakeholders. He credits the IIA and TEKES with helping the Israeli and Finnish business sectors to rise to the upper ranks of the global league tables on R&D spending, creating new companies, products and jobs.Not everyone is convinced that the Finnish or Israeli model will work in Canada, however. Canada’s big businesses tend to be conservative, and are difficult to motivate when it comes to R&D spending.
A lot of DARPA’s prosperity comes from the deep-pocketed US Department of Defense buying its inventions — something that isn't replicated in Canada and other countries, Usher says. And Breznitz points out that DARPA mostly generates inventions, rather than commercializing them. So even if a DARPA clone did generate inventions in Canada, it wouldn’t fix “our critical problem” of making money from them, he says.
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