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In Peter Armstrong’s recent CBC article “Do you miss your BlackBerry? Canada’s innovation sector does too,” the author says the new movie Blackberry about the rise and fall of Canadian innovation giant Research in Motion (RiM) highlights gaping holes in Canada’s innovation policy.
The story of RiM is also the story of Canada’s innovation policy shortcomings, particularly evident in the wake of the decline of tech giants Rim and Nortel.
Unlike Silicon Valley, where the collapse of major companies like Sun Microsystems led to the emergence of numerous smaller companies and a redistribution of resources, Canada saw no such resurgence.
“If you actually look at many of the best resources that used to belong to Nortel, and BlackBerry, they belong now to Huawei,” says Dan Breznitz, Chair of Innovation Studies at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy.
Armstrong's article “Do you miss your BlackBerry?" is the perfect complement to the movie Blackberry, an entertaining and informative chronicle of the meteoric rise and catastrophic demise of RiM, now in theatres.
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