Council of Canadian Academies Releases New Report on Subnational Science Policy

Posted April 19, 2017

The Council of Canadian Academies released a new report, “Science Policy: Considerations for Subnational Governments,” with Kaye Husbands Fealing, professor and chair of the School of Public Policy as a member of the Workshop Steering Committee.

The report was the outcome of a workshop held on November 21- 22, 2016 in Canmore, Alberta, Canada. The workshop brought together U.S. and Canadian experts from academia, government, research institutions, and industry to identify the important considerations for creating subnational science policy in general and Alberta province in particular.

The report findings show that it creating an explicit science policies is important for bringing clarity to provincial research priorities. It also finds that a comprehensive science policy is hinged on five key elements including people, infrastructure, research, science culture, and knowledge mobilization.

The Council of Canadian Academies (CCA) is an independent, not-for-profit organization that supports independent, science-based, authoritative expert assessments to inform public policy development in Canada

Read the full report here