{"id":1479,"date":"2013-11-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2018\/02\/01\/innovation-anthology-581\/"},"modified":"2018-02-25T21:30:48","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T21:30:48","slug":"innovation-anthology-581","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2013\/11\/07\/innovation-anthology-581\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovation Anthology #581:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/1-Innovation Anthology 581.mp3\">Download MP3 Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nInstead of retiring in 2010 when the Alberta Research Council morphed into what&#8217;s now called Alberta Innovates Technology Future,<b> John McDougall<\/b> took up a new challenge.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nHe\u2019s now president of the <b>National Research Council.<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWith a mandate for change, John McDougall first looked at how Canada\u2019s largest research and innovation agency  is organized.\n<\/p>\n<p><b><br \/>\nJOHN MCDOUGALL: <\/b><em>Well the way it was working was as a very researcher driven kind of a place.   The mandate of the NRC  is really for economic development in Canada, by working on issues that are of strategic importance to the country, and to help grow the industries through technology.  And what was happening was that the organization had become sort of a collection of entitites that wasn&#8217;t really strategically managed, So there wasn&#8217;t a lot of  integration of the capabilities, with facilities all over the country that kind of did their own thing.<br \/>\nSo it was really an organization that wasn&#8217;t taking advantage of the critical mass that it could have and put together.  <\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nJohn McDougall\u2019s next step in revitalizing the NRC involved an analysis of research organizations around the globe.\n<\/p>\n<p><b><em><br \/>\nLearn more at Innovation Anthology.com<\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI\u2019M CHERYL CROUCHER <\/b>\n<\/p>\n<h2>Guest<\/h2>\n<h3> , <\/h3>\n<h4>, , , , <\/h4>\n<h2>Sponsor<\/h2>\n<h3><a href=\"\"><\/a><\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Program Date:<\/strong>\u00a02013-11-07<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2010, John McDougall moved from the Alberta Research Council to the National Research Council in Ottawa.  That move involved a mandate for change and a focus on innovation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,32,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-innovation","category-science","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1479"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4900,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479\/revisions\/4900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}