R-D Collaboratory 2016-04-27

• The Harvard Business Review lays out the reasons industry-academic collaboration is essential to competitiveness.
• Susan Delacourt explains how the new Liberal government develops policy. 
• Attracting skilled workers and preventing brain-drain are among the top concerns of Canadian manufacturers. 
• Eric Bosco provides insight into the innovation mistakes that small businesses often make, an investigative journalist looks into what went wrong with crowdfunding website Kickstarter’s most disastrous failure.