Innovation by Press Release: The June 29th 2020 Edition of the Age of Ingenuity

We live in a world where innovators can’t get funding without sending the right press releases to legacy media dinosaurs who mostly don’t have the resources to fact check the content. Welcome to the June 29th, 2020 edition of the Age of Ingenuity.

Sources cited during this episode include the following:

• The June 23rd, 2020 BetaKit post, "OntarioSupercluster Invests over $6 Million in Three Covid-Related Projects."

• The June 23rd, 2020 NexGen press release, "AdvancedManufacturing Supercluster Funds Over $6 Million in Projects to FightCOVID-19."

• The April 2nd, 2020 Canadian Institutes of Health Research post, "Government of Canada funds 49 additional COVID-19research projects – Details of the funded projects."

• The June 22nd, 2020 Globe and Mail post, "Opinion:The perils of ‘science by press release.'"

• The August 9th, 2018 Commercial Space blog post, "Could Space Industry Funding Come From Canada's New Cannabis Industry?"

• The February 22nd, 2017 BBC News post, "Most scientists 'can't replicate studies by their peers.'"

• The June 9th, 2020 Forbes post, "Eight Fraudulent Cancer Research Studies Contained The Same Copied Results. How Does This Happen?"

• The June 25^th, 2020 Wired post, “Peer-Reviewed Scientific Journals Don't Really Do Their Job: Therapid sharing of pandemic research shows there is a better way to filter goodscience from bad.”

• The November 11th, 2019 Canadian Government website on Innovation Funding and Support.

• The 2019 Research Infosource listing of Top Corporate R&D Spenders. 

• The January 27th, 2020 Government of Canada Overview of Canada's New Superclusters.

• "How Innovation Works" by Matt Ridley.

• The June 25th, CBC News post, "Google will startpaying some news publishers for content."

• The June 25th, 2020 Google press release "A new licensing program to support the news industry."

• The June 25th, 2020 Nieman Lab post, "“Google paying publishers” is more about PR than the needs of the news industry."

• The September 10th, 2019 CTV News post, “Canada's $600 million 'media bailout': A guide to federal tax breaks for the news industry.”

• The June 26th, 2020 NYT post, "The BrandsBoycotting Facebook Ads Over Hate Speech," at https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/26/business/media/Facebook-advertising-boycott.html.

• The February 23rd, 2017 Washington Post blog, "John Podesta joins The Washington Post as a contributing columnist."

"Age of Ingenuity" tracks Canada's "innovation ecosystem," the organizations, agencies and individuals attempting to turn innovative Canadian start-ups into world class, billion dollar "unicorns," able to anchor industries and create jobs.

Age of Ingenuity Credits

Producer and Host - Chuck Black

Host and Contributor - Brian Orlotti

Host and Contributor - Al Calder

Associate Producer and Contributor - John Penturn

Music: Freesound House Flow by Jaturo licenced under a Creative Commons 0 Licence.

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