In the latest episode of the Rotman Executive Summary podcast, associate professor Kevin Bryan explores why Canada lags behind its peers like the U.S. when it comes to innovation, and what could be done to change that. 

Bryan explores the pandemic’s impact on knowledge transfer and teamwork, and how higher interest rates may further knock down R&D efforts across industries. 

“You might think, how could it be that in an era of artificial intelligence and robots growth is slowing down?” says Bryan, the academic director of partnerships for the Creative Destruction Lab. “Per dollar that we spend on R&D, the amount of social value and innovation we get is lower now than it was in the past... and we're throwing way more researchers into science than we did 50 or 100 years ago. So, it has to be the case that they're producing less growth per researcher.” 

Next month on Rotman Executive Summary, professor Ming Hu explores the uncertain future of the sharing economy, using Uber — the “golden child” of the gig economy — as an example. 

If you missed the previous episode with assistant professor Rachel Ruttan on how to give better advice, listen here. 

New episodes of the Rotman Executive Summary are released monthly on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts and Soundcloud. Desktop listeners can also tune in on Simplecast. 

Would you rather read than listen in? Check out the full transcript of the episode here.