Key recommendations include:

1. Establish an equitable research funding framework that fully captures the capacity of polytechnics and colleges to respond to the needs of Canadian businesses, boosting private sector participation in the innovation ecosystem
2. Revisit funding models and programs which rely heavily on prior funding success, peer-reviewed publications and patents as indicators of research excellence. Productivity gains should be an important driver of government investment
3. Consider mechanisms to more evenly distribute research support funding to ensure all players in the academic research ecosystem have sufficient resources to build and sustain a research infrastructure in service of their mandate