Jorge Niosi with Andre Manseau and Benoit Godin, Canada's National System of Innovation. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2000, 222 pp.
At the beginning of the book, the principal author makes clear that, "This book is about NSIs as defined in a restricted way," which he goes on to specify. "A national system of innovation (or national R&D system) is a system of interacting private and public firms, universities and government laboratories aiming at the production and use of science and technology knowledge within national borders. Interaction among these units may be technical, commercial, legal, social and financial, inasmuch as the goal of the interaction is the development, protection, financing or regulation of new science and technology." The book …

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