Breaking Innovation Paralysis

Canada builds world-class science, trains world-class talent, and funds world-class research. Then watches it leave.

This podcast names why — and what's possible when the pattern finally breaks.

Breaking Innovation Paralysis examines the structural mechanisms behind Canada's chronic failure to retain the cures, capital, and companies it creates.

Each episode applies a diagnostic lens to the policies, institutions, and decision-making cultures that keep promising innovations from reaching the people who need them most. From university benches to cabinet tables, from clinical trials to commercialization — the barriers are consistent, the costs are real, and the pattern has a name.

But this isn't only a story of what's broken. Through conversations with innovators who pushed through, gatekeepers who found a better way, and global voices who've solved what Canada hasn't yet — each episode leaves you with something to act on.

The problem is the system. And systems can change.