Canada’s innovation superclusters are lagging behind their intended goals, and the poorest results so far have been produced by Canada’s Ocean Supercluster, according to the Parliamentary Budget Officer.
The PBO this week filed a report on the five superclusters, saying that as of March they had funded fewer projects than expected when the program was announced. The government had projected $104 million in federal spending in the 2019-20 fiscal year, but the actual spending was $30 million, of which $18 million was devoted to administration and operations.
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