Dan Breznitz, University of Toronto

Research

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Latest funding

The Political Economy of Buying Ideas: Using Public Procurement to Stimulate Business Innovation
SSHRC · 2025 · Co-investigator
$34,861
Creating digital opportunity: Canada's ICT industry in global perspective
SSHRC · 2013 · Co-investigator
$2,900,001

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The Political Economy of Buying Ideas: Using Public Procurement to Stimulate Business Innovation

Co-investigatorSSHRC2025Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Ornston, Darius P.

Keywords: Comparative political economy; international political economy; innovation policy; procurement; trade agreements; Canada; Sweden; United States

$34,861

Creating digital opportunity: Canada's ICT industry in global perspective

Co-investigatorSSHRC2013Partnership Grants

Keywords: information and communications technology; digital economy; global production networks; digital infrastructure; intelligent communities; local skills and labour markets

$2,900,001

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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