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The prosperity and growth of several industrialized countries including Canada in the late 1960s was less a result of innovation, new technology, export initiative and general entrepreneur ship, than a function of a rapidly expanding labor force and what was then viewed as an inexhaustible supply of natural resources. At the same time other countries were making a conscious effort to expand their innovative capacity. As a result, Canada, among others, was faced with a serious decline in its industrial technological capability relative to its international competitors (Ministry of State for Science and Technology, MOSST, 1981).
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McIntyre, T. (1997). Sustainable Development and Responding to the Challenges of the Evolution of Environmental Biotechnology in Canada. In: Sayler, G.S., Sanseverino, J., Davis, K.L. (eds) Biotechnology in the Sustainable Environment. Environmental Science Research, vol 54. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5395-3_16
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