Why Canada is losing the multi-billion-dollar technology standards game
Financial Post ·
Louis Carbonneau: Canada keeps inventing the technologies the world adopts — but then pays a toll to use them
Earlier this month, I was invited to the annual Bridge Summit hosted by the Via Licensing Alliance in San Francisco. Via, which describes itself as the world's largest patent pool administrator, licenses the patents inside video codecs, wireless charging and, increasingly, AI data centres. The room was full of licensing executives from the United States, China, Japan, Korea and Europe, there to settle who collects on the next decade's technologies. I looked for Canadians. I did not find any. Read More