…it is as if airplanes had been built with no money for the pilots to fly them.
April 30, 2009
University World News: “A year and a half ago, Canada was celebrating a reversal of the perpetual brain drain it had felt for decades. Now there is talk of that brain gain going back down the drain”….
Andrew MacDougall, a spokesman in the Office of the Prime Minister, said Canada’s record compared favourably with the US, remarking that the OECD ranked Canada number one among G-7 countries for its support of university research.
TRISH McALASTER / THE GLOBE AND MAIL. SOURCE: EUROSTAT, OECD
Canada isn’t among 10 countries that spend the most each year on research and development, as a percentage of annual GDP.
| Israel | 4.74 |
| Sweden | 3.64 |
| Japan | 3.39 |
| Finland | 3.39 |
| Korea | 3.22 |
| United States | 2.68 |
| Austria | 2.56 |
| Denmark | 2.55 |
| Germany | 2.53 |
| France | 2.08 |
| Canada | 1.89 |
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