R-D Collaboratory 2016-04-20

• The US is the world leader when it comes to venture capital investment, but when it comes to rates of entrepreneurship, it’s actually behind several other countries. So what are some strategies for growing more startups?
• The World Economic Forum posted an article that questions the value of GDP as a measurement of progress, and puts forward five measures that are better.
• An OECD publication peers into the future, with an overview of the megatrends, technology trends and research trends that stand to change our lives over the next couple of decades. None of these ideas were included. 
• High-tech companies are still really important in Canada’s largest cities, but today’s emerging companies aren’t the job-creating behemoths that companies like Blackberry and Nortel once were. A mildly Ottawa-centric overview of the high-tech industry in Canada. 
• Similarities between being a PhD student and being an entrepreneur were explained in a Globe and Mail article.
• Great discussion on the exciting topic of research funding, stemming from this report that academics feel pressure to exaggerate their research’s importance when applying for grants.