Its long been known that the US lags in productivity. More importantly, however, the states are lagging in innovation – the idea-generation that fuels productivity gains.  The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation attempts to quantify this.

Note that Canada is significantly worse that the US and most European industrialized nations, and is near the bottom in the “change” measurement. The message is clear: Canada’s technological competitiveness is poor, and were doing little to improve it.