On May 9, The Globe and Mail published Canadians Can Innovate, But We’re Not Equipped To Win, by Research in Motion co-founder Jim Balsillie. This is part of a series responding to and expanding on that essay. “What do you teach?” people ask when you say you are a university professor in Canada. The question is never “What have you invented?”, “What do you research?” and certainly never, “What’s the spinoff company you and your students are working on?”
