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Tom Brzustowski (ex-NSERC president, now University of Ottawa RBC Financial Group Professor in the Commercialization of Innovation and Chair of the board Institute for Quantum Computing , Waterloo) is giving a talk this Friday January 16 entitled " Looking for Suggestive Patterns in Canadian Industrial R&D Spending ". Abstract: R&D spending is an imperfect, but widely used, measure of innovation. This paper describes the search for suggestive patterns in Canadian industrial R&D spending, as reported in the data published annually by Re$earch Infosource Inc. A very important feature of this proprietary data base is that the companies involved are named, and thus the data can be combined with information from other sources. The discussion has three parts. The first deals with the "calibration" of the data base, and a discussion of its limitations, beginning with the reporting of R&D spending. The second describes and explains the performance of a...

A recent article[ 1 ] looks at scientific research competitiveness of world universities in computer science, examining at individual university computer science departments as well countries as aggregates of their universities. The study looks at 233 university computer science departments, 127418 published papers, 468244 citations, 1856 highly cited papers and 57 hot papers over the last 10 years using data from Thomson. The evaluation criteria are (see the paper for more details): Canada as an aggregate region came in #4 after the USA, UK, Germany, followed by Italy. Canada had the third highest paper production, citations, and "hot" papers! For individual universities, only one Canadian university is in the top 23, with University of Toronto coming in at 16th . You can see the top 23 universities listed below: Stanford MIT UC Berkeley U Texas U Illinois Carnegie Mellon UCSD Georgia Inst Technol U Maryland Eth Zurich Technion Israel Inst Technol Princeton U Washingto...