Qiantao Zhang

Qiantao Zhang has a PhD in Economic Geography from the School of Planning and Geography at Cardiff University (UK). His PhD dissertation, set in the context of divergent economic performance of UK regions, examines the role of universities in local, regional, and national economies, and maps diverse university-industry interaction patterns across regions. An economic geographer by training, he has broad interests in entrepreneurship, knowledge economy, and regional growth. Prior to...

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Jeffrey Crelinsten

Jeffrey’s research primarily focuses on the nature of innovation and entrepreneurship, innovation and entrepreneurship policy, innovation ecosystems, innovation culture and academic-industry collaboration. Over the past decade he has been focusing on challenges facing R&D-intensive firms in Canada and their policy implications. More recently he has been looking at the role of postsecondary institutions and innovation intermediaries. Jeffrey has been active in the private sector for over 30 years, first as...

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Louis Pauly

Louis W. Pauly is Interim Director at the Centre for the Study of Global Japan at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. He is also a past Chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto, and has held the Canada Research Chair in Globalization and Governance since 2002. As Director of the Centre for International Studies from 1997 to 2011, he helped build...

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Dan Breznitz

Dan Breznitz, is a Professor and Munk Chair of Innovation Studies, with a cross-appointment to the Department of Political Science. In addition, he is also Co-Director of the Innovation Policy Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy and the Director of Academic Research. Professor Breznitz is known worldwide as an expert on rapid-innovation-based industries and their globalization, as well as for his pioneering research on the...

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Peter Warrian

Dr. Peter J. Warrian is a Senior Research Fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto. He is Canada’s leading academic expert on the steel industry. He was formerly Research Director of the United Steelworkers of America and Chief Economist of the Province of Ontario. His current research is on knowledge networks, supply chains and digital manufacturing. As a member of the Innovation Systems Research...

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Steven Samford

I am an assistant professor of Organizational Studies at the University of Michigan. I study organizations and the political economy of development, focusing on how the interactions between state bureaucracies (such as innovation agencies or regulators) and businesses and business organizations affect technology development and diffusion. My papers have appeared (or are forthcoming) in the American Journal of Sociology, Review of International Political Economy, Politics & Society, Studies in Comparative International Development, Business & Politics,...

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Scott Aquanno

Scott Aquanno teaches at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology. He has published widely on monetary policy innovation, inflation and the political economy of finance and globalization. His current research focuses on the governance of modern capital markets in relation to innovative investment and looks comparatively at the recent evolution of US and German financial policy.

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Janice Stein

Janice Gross Stein is the Belzberg Professor of Conflict Management in the Department of Political Science and was the founding Director of the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto (serving from 1998 to the end of 2014). She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a member of the Order of Canada and the Order of Ontario. Her most recent publications...

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Nicole Goodman

Nicole presently serves as Director of the Centre for e-Democracy. Her current research largely focuses on the impacts of digital technology on Canadian political behaviour and public policy. She has also explored such impacts on governance, Indigenous self-determination and innovation. Nicole recently led a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) funded study of the 2014 Ontario municipal elections to assess the effects of internet voting on voters and election administration...

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Bill Hutchison

For the past twenty years Bill has been leading the design and implementation of Smart Cities and Innovation Districts that have won a number of global awards. His “hands-on” experience includes Smart/Intelligent City implementations in Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Russia, Kazakhstan and Canada with related advisory services in many other countries. He was Executive Director, Intelligent Communities with the $34 billion Waterfront Toronto project, one of the world’s largest urban...

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David Ticoll

David Ticoll is a Canadian and international authority on the business, policy, and social implications of emerging technologies. He has a successful track record as an entrepreneur, social entrepreneur, academic researcher, author, consultant, journalist and speaker. David now focuses on helping organizations and governments design strategies to maximize the benefits of vehicle automation. In 2015 David was the principal researcher and author of Driving Changes, a ground breaking white paper and...

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Shiri M. Breznitz

Shiri M. Breznitz, an economic geographer, specializes in innovation, technology commercialization, and regional economic development. Her research is at the critical intersection of theory and policy to fit the new realities of globalization. Dr. Breznitz’s work has informed policymaking at the local, national, and international levels. She has advised on the role of universities in the larger story of innovation, on the economic impact of biotechnology, and on the role of clusters in...

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Darius Ornston

Darius Ornston is an Assistant Professor at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto, where he specializes in the comparative political economy of Western Europe. Dr. Ornston’s first book, When Small States Make Big Leaps (Cornell University Press), examines how Denmark, Finland and Ireland leveraged private-public, industry-labour and inter-firm cooperation to assume surprisingly competitive positions in emerging, high-technology markets. His research on Nordic...

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Anita McGahan

Anita M. McGahan is Professor and Rotman Chair in Management at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. She is cross appointed to the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy and the Physiology Department of the Medical School; is Senior Associate at the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness at Harvard University; is the Chief Economist in the Division of Health and Human Rights at the...

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Shauna Brail

Shauna Brail, PhD is an Associate Professor, Teaching Stream, at the University of Toronto, Urban Studies Program and a Senior Associate in the Innovation Policy Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. Her research lies broadly in economic geography with a focus on the social, cultural and economic changes associated with the shifting strengths of cities; her secondary research focus relates to pedagogy and learning outside...

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Tijs Creutzberg

I am an applied and empirically oriented political scientist specializing in public policy, public administration and strategy in the areas of research, innovation and economic development. My goal is to better understand the multilevel dynamics of economic development and their associated policy implications in an era of global economic interdependence. Alongside my academic research on innovation, economic development and governance, I conducted numerous studies over 15 years as a consultant on...

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Allison Bramwell

Allison Bramwell is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Her current research focuses on collaborative urban governance and the political economy of restructuring with an emphasis on regional economic development and employment in renewable energy industries. Allison has published studies in various policy areas such as local labour market planning and workforce development, the role of post-secondary institutions in...

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David Wolfe

David A. Wolfe is Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto Mississauga and Co-Director of the Innovation Policy Lab in the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto. He was the Royal Bank Chair in Public and Economic Policy from 2009-2014. His research interests include the political economy of technological change and the role of local and regional economic development, with special...

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david.wolfe@utoronto.ca

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Daniel Munro

Dr. Daniel Munro is a Visiting Scholar and Director of Policy Projects at the Innovation Policy Lab in the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto. He is on sabbatical from The Conference Board of Canada where he is Associate Director of Public Policy. His research interests include innovation policy, skills and education policy, distributive justice, and applied ethics, including the ethics of innovation,...

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Joseph Wong

Professor Joseph Wong was appointed Associate Vice-President and Vice-Provost, International Student Experience on January 1, 2017. Professor Wong is currently the Ralph and Roz Halbert Professor of Innovation at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, a Professor of Political Science in the Faculty of Arts and Science, and held the Canada Research Chair in Health, Democracy, and Development for two full terms, 2006 to 2016. He was the Director...

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Scott Aquanno

Postdoctoral Fellow, Innovation Policy Lab

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Shauna Brail

Senior Associate, Innovation Policy Lab
Director, Urban Studies Program

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Allison Bramwell

Senior Associate, Innovation Policy Lab
Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina Greensboro

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Dan Breznitz

Co-Director of the Innovation Policy Lab
Munk Chair of Innovation Studies

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Shiri M. Breznitz

Associate Professor, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
Faculty, American Studies
Affiliated Faculty, CSUS

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Jeffrey Crelinsten

Senior Research Associate, Innovation Policy Lab

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Tijs Creutzberg

Senior Associate, Innovation Policy Lab
Program Director, Council of Canadian Academies

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Nicole Goodman

Assistant Professor, Status Only; Innovation Policy Lab

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Deborah Huntley

Project Manager, Creating Digital Opportunity (CDO) Partnership, Innovation Policy Lab

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ipl.munkschool@utoronto.ca

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Bill Hutchison

Distinguished Fellow, Innovation Policy Lab
Founding Chair, i-CANADA

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Anita McGahan

Rotman Chair in Management
Professor, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy

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Daniel Munro

Visiting Scholar and Director of Policy Projects, Innovation Policy Lab

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Darius Ornston

Assistant Professor, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
Affiliated Faculty, Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies

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darius.ornston@utoronto.ca

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Louis Pauly

Interim Director, Centre for the Study of Global Japan

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louis.pauly@utoronto.ca

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Steven Samford

Associate, Innovation Policy Lab
Assistant Professor, University of Michigan

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Janice Stein

Professor, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
Belzberg Professor of Conflict Management, Department of Political Science

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David Ticoll

Distinguished Fellow, Innovation Policy Lab

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Tara Vinodrai

Research Fellow, Innovation Policy Lab
Associate Professor, University of Waterloo

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Peter Warrian

Senior Research Fellow, Comparative Program on Health and Society

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David Wolfe

Co-Director of the Innovation Policy Lab
Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
Professor, Political Science UTM

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david.wolfe@utoronto.ca

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Joseph Wong

Ralph and Roz Halbert Professor of Innovation
Professor and Canada Research Chair, Department of Political Science

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Qiantao Zhang

Post-Doctoral Fellow, Innovation Policy Lab
Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy

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