Competitive Industrial Development in the Age of Information The Role of Cooperation in the Technology Sector

Introduction PART I Competition as cooperation: policy perspective 1 High-technology industrial policy in Canada: the future of an illusion or an illusion of the future 2 The role of cooperative industrial policy in Canada and Ontario 3 Commentary PART II Tax policy and technology development 4 Tax incentives and comparative advantage 5 Evaluating R&D income tax incentives: some lessons from the Australian experience PART III Bank financing of technology development: lending to small to mid-sized enterprises 6 The banks and innovative enterprise: opportunities and Constraints 7 The role of banks in the financing of knowledge-based SMEs 8 Commentary PART IV Competition as cooperation: law and economics perspective of cooperative industrial policy 9 Competition policy and cooperative innovation 10 Competition as cooperation: SEMATECH, Inc. and the case for competitive industrial policy 11 Commentary

Biography

Richard J. Braudo is a Toronto- and Dallas-based Business Economist and Management Consultant. He has been a Business Economist for more than fifteen years and a lawyer since 1996. His research includes work on competition and constitutional law, health care, international trade policy, and e-commerce. Jeffrey G. MacIntosh is a Professor of Law at the University of Toronto. He has written extensively on topics relating to corporate and securities law and has recently focused his research upon the financing of small, high technology companies.