Canada > Economic Growth > Questions to Advisory Council

http://www.fin.gc.ca/n16/16-031-eng.asp

Q1. is growth and +GDP/capita the same thing?

Q2. is innovation and growth the same thing?

Q3. can innovation be taught?

Q4. is innovation and entrepreneurship the same thing?

Q5. can entrepreneurship be taught?

Q6. what's the right balance between diversity and uniformity of (physical, knowledge, human ...) capital?

for example, is it better for McGill to graduate 50 uniform mechanical engineers -employers can count on them to do mechanical engineering the same way- or 50 diverse engineers with some mechanical?

Q7. can growth be improved through adjustments on the uniformity / diversity scale?

Q8. is a 'gig economy' more efficient than old fashioned long-term employment?

Q9. will technology fix structural problems? For example if 'gig economy' is more efficient, then will LinkedIn etc help restructure the economy?

Q10. If an economy is self-fixing, self-healing via technology, then to accelerate self-healing would it be better (for gov policy) to (temporarily) accentuate current problems rather than mitigate them? For example to fix youth unemployment, temporarily drop EI benefits for youth?