Thirty years of Canadian science policy: from 1.5 to 1.5

摘要

This article presents some personal observa- tions that span a period of 30 years of invole- ment in Canadian science policy, beginning in 1968 when I Joined the Science Council of Can- ada as a Science Adviser. I then went onto be- come Science Counsellor at the Permanent Canadian Delegation to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Research Director of the Science Council, Executive Director of the Canadian Institute for Economic Policy, Director General Of the Industry and Trade Branch of the Minis- Try of State for Science and Technology, and fi- Nally I become a partner with Nordicity Group Ltd, a management consulting company, which I co-founded, specializing in technol- Ogy-intensive industries. It is from these per- Spectives that my observations of the science Policy scene in Canada are extracted.