CTS 2013: WANTED: Risk-seeking, chest-thumping Canadian innovators

TORONTO – Canadians need to dream big and to promote their achievements in order for pioneering companies to successfully attract capital investment that in turn will help the country build an innovation economy. That was the message from a panel of industry experts who spoke Wednesday morning at the Canadian Telecom Summit in Toronto. “We need to thump our chest. We need to own the podium for the next version of the economy,” said John Weigelt, national technology officer for Microsoft Canada. “We need to put out that goal and promote that goal so that funding can come here.” Canadians...