About Us

The Centre for Net-Zero Industrial Policy is convened by The Transition Accelerator. Bentley Allan (Transition Pathway Principal), Derek Eaton (Director of Industrial Policy), and James Meadowcroft (Transition Pathway Principal) are coordinators of the Centre.
We act as a virtual hub for researchers and practitioners in industrial policy. This community consists of affiliated researchers in academia and research institutes, as well as partner organizations who are actively analyzing and formulating policy recommendations on industrial policy. In addition, industry partners provide a connection with the perspective of business on net-zero industrial policy.
The Centre has been established thanks to the generous support of the Ivey Foundation.
For more information about becoming an affiliated researcher or partner, please contact us at info@netzeroindustrialpolicy.ca.

Focus Areas

We have identified five focus areas that reflect the key challenges and opportunities Canadian net-zero industrial policy will need to address. These areas will evolve and expand as our understanding grows, but our initial research activities will focus on:

1

Macroeconomic transition pathways and the costs of inaction on industrial policy
Understanding the possible implications of this changing scale and composition of exports such as declining oil and gas exports should help assess why and where new opportunities for clean growth are pursued through industrial policy.

2

Best international practices in modern industrial policy
A more systematic understanding of what learnings can be derived from Canadas peer countries (U.S., U.K., Germany, Nordics, South Korea, etc.) will help formulate approaches best tailored to the Canadian context.

3

Investment strategies and economic growth
The role of alternative investment strategies in Canadas economic growth, such as the dependence on FDI, is directly related to industrial policy which aims to steer the direction of investment flows.

4

Mobilizing finance through industrial policy
The massive scale of investment to support the net-zero transition implies a need to examine the institutional arrangements, frameworks, public funds, enabling policies and risk management tools to leverage private finance.

5

Opportunities for Canada in net-zero supply chains
Improved approaches to assess economic growth opportunities for Canada in emerging net-zero supply chains will support enhanced success in the strategic directions pursued by industrial policy.

Affiliates

Our affiliates are both leading and emerging researchers who work with various methodologies and analytical frameworks, and who develop and share insights on the best practices for industrial policy.
Prof. Wolfgang Alschner
Associate Professor, Hyman Soloway Chair in Business and Trade Law, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa
Bruno Arcand
Ph.D. candidate, School of Public Policy & Administration, Carleton University
Michael Bernstein
Executive Director, Clean Prosperity
Rachel Doran
Director of Policy and Strategy, Clean Energy Canada
Jonas Goldman
Senior Research Associate, Net Zero Industrial Policy Lab
Dr. Brendan Haley
Adjunct Research Professor, School of Public Policy & Administration, Carleton University
Anik Islam
Senior Research Associate, Smart Prosperity Institute
Dr. Colleen Kaiser
Program Director, Innovation and SPI Postdoctoral Fellow, Smart Prosperity Institute
Prof. Tamara Krawchenko
Assistant Professor, School of Public Administration, University of Victoria
Prof. Charles Sabel
Maurice T. Moore Professor of Law, Columbia Law School, Columbia University
Dr. Travis Southin
Future Economy Lead, The Transition Accelerator
Prof. David Wolfe
Co-Director, Innovation Policy Lab, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto

Land Acknowledgment

The Centre recognizes that its affiliates and partners reside and work on traditional lands and territories of First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples across the country known as Canada.

In seeking to steer the future course of economic development across these lands, the Centre acknowledges the many injustices that have been perpetrated in the pursuit of industrial development. This includes, but is not limited to, impacts already experienced as a result of climate change, the challenges faced in achieving a net-zero transition, and the numerous impacts of resource-based and industrial activities experienced more locally.

The Centre recognizes that reconciliation requires that net-zero industrial policy actively addresses questions of genuine participation by First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples. In this regard, the Centre respects and affirms the inherent and Treaty Rights of all Indigenous Peoples across this land and worldwide.

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