Anita McGahan

Anita M. McGahan is University Professor and George E. Connell Chair in Organizations and Society at the University of Toronto. Her primary appointments are at the Rotman School of Management and the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy. She is cross-appointed to the Medical School and the Dalla Lana School of Public Health; is Senior Associate at the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness at Harvard University; is the Chief...

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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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Peter Warrian

Dr. Peter J. Warrian is a Senior Research Fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs & 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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Daniel Munro

Dr. Daniel Munro is Director of Policy Projects at the Innovation Policy Lab in the Munk School of Global Affairs & 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, and new and emerging...

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Steven Denney

Steven Denney is a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Innovation Policy Lab. He received his PhD from the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto and holds an MA in Global Affairs and Policy from Yonsei University (Seoul) and a BA in Political Science from Harding University. With a primary interest in Korean politics and society and the political economy of Northeast Asia, Steven has published in The Asan Forum,...

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Qiantao Zhang

Dr. Zhang received his B.Eng from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Industrial Engineering (2006), his M.M from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Management (2009), and his Ph.D from Cardiff University in Economic Geography (2016). Dr. Zhang’s main research interests include academic entrepreneurship, economic geography, innovation, and regional development. Prior to joining the IPL in January 2017, he worked as an Irish Research Council (IRC) Postdoc Research Fellow...

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Shauna Brail

Shauna Brail, PhD is Director and Associate Professor, Urban Studies Program as well as Associate Director, Partnerships & Outreach, School of Cities at the University of Toronto. She is the co-Principal Investigator of a five-year Insight Grant funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada called ‘Taking Canada for a Ride: Digital Ride-Hailing and Its Impact on Canadian Cities.’ As an economic geographer and urban planner, Brail’s research...

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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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Dan Breznitz

Dan Breznitz, is a Professor and Munk Chair of Innovation Studies, in the Munk School of Global Affairs with a cross-appointment in the Department of Political Science of the University of Toronto. Where he is also the Co-Director of the Innovation Policy Lab. In addition, he is a Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research where he co-founded and co-directs the program on Innovation, Equity and the Future of...

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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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David Wolfe

David A. Wolfe is Professor 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 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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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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Darius Ornston

Darius Ornston is Associate Professor at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy at the University of Toronto where he specializes in innovation policy, comparative politics, and Nordic Europe. His first book, When Small States Make Big Leaps, illustrates how these communities use cooperation to enter high-technology markets. In Good Governance Gone Bad, Dr. Ornston demonstrates how the same, tight-knit networks that accelerate restructuring can also lead to policy...

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Joseph Wong

Joseph Wong is the Ralph and Roz Halbert Professor of Innovation at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, and Professor of Political Science. He was the Director of the Asian Institute at the Munk School from 2005 to 2014. Wong is the author of many academic articles and several books, including Healthy Democracies: Welfare Politics In Taiwan and South Korea and Betting on Biotech: Innovation and the...

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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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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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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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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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Louis Pauly

Louis W. Pauly, the J. Stefan Dupré Distinguished Professor of Political Economy at the University of Toronto, established the Centre for the Study of Global Japan in the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy in 2017 and directed it until June 2019. He remains an affiliated faculty member of the Centre as well as of the Innovation Policy Lab and the International Relations Program. He served as Chair...

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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 & 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...

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Shauna Brail

Director and Associate Professor, Teaching Stream, Innis College
Associate Director, Partnership and Outreach, School of Cities, University of Toronto

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Allison Bramwell

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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Steven Denney

Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy

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Nicole Goodman

Assistant Professor, Status Only; Innovation Policy Lab

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Bill Hutchison

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

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Anita McGahan

University Professor and George E. Connell Chair in Organizations and Society
Rotman School of Management Professor
Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy

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Daniel Munro

Senior Fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy
Director of Policy Projects, Innovation Policy Lab

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Darius Ornston

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

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Louis Pauly

J. Stefan Dupré Distinguished Professor of Political Economy, Department of Political Science
Affiliated Faculty, Centre for the Study of Global Japan

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Steven Samford

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

Distinguished Fellow, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy

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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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Joseph Wong

Ralph and Roz Halbert Professor of Innovation
Professor, Department of Political Science

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Qiantao Zhang

Lecturer in Urban Economics, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University

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