Jim Balsillie

amassing IP assets and collecting a rent. So it stopped being a production-based economy only, and it became a two-legged race, liberalizing markets, capital, and labor through production economy, Ricardian comparative advantage of making things, to a parallel race of enclosing knowledge, using agreements to spread friction and monopoly to capture a rent based on an idea.

amassing IP assets and collecting a rent. So it stopped being a production-based economy only, and it became a two-legged race, liberalizing markets, capital, and labor through production economy, Ricardian comparative advantage of making things, to a parallel race of enclosing knowledge, using agreements to spread friction and monopoly to capture a rent based on an idea.

And that's interesting because that's at the time we were also doing Blackberry. And my mentors in commercialization were in the U.S. and helping me in Washington and all the different things we had to do to navigate. But I think the original sin in Canada was in 1994. Early 1994, Canada signed two agreements. The NAFTA agreement with extensive intellectual property provisions, which was new.

And that's interesting because that's at the time we were also doing Blackberry. And my mentors in commercialization were in the U.S. and helping me in Washington and all the different things we had to do to navigate. But I think the original sin in Canada was in 1994. Early 1994, Canada signed two agreements. The NAFTA agreement with extensive intellectual property provisions, which was new.

And that's interesting because that's at the time we were also doing Blackberry. And my mentors in commercialization were in the U.S. and helping me in Washington and all the different things we had to do to navigate. But I think the original sin in Canada was in 1994. Early 1994, Canada signed two agreements. The NAFTA agreement with extensive intellectual property provisions, which was new.

and the TRIPS agreement of the World Trade Organization, which was the globalization of the IP system. But what's interesting is domestically in Canada, later that year, they published a book called The Orange Book. Who was they? Industry Canada, the government of Canada. It published an orange book, and you can see it on the web, called Building a More Innovative Canada.

and the TRIPS agreement of the World Trade Organization, which was the globalization of the IP system. But what's interesting is domestically in Canada, later that year, they published a book called The Orange Book. Who was they? Industry Canada, the government of Canada. It published an orange book, and you can see it on the web, called Building a More Innovative Canada.

and the TRIPS agreement of the World Trade Organization, which was the globalization of the IP system. But what's interesting is domestically in Canada, later that year, they published a book called The Orange Book. Who was they? Industry Canada, the government of Canada. It published an orange book, and you can see it on the web, called Building a More Innovative Canada.

And this is six months after we signed these two treaties. And they talk about innovation is all about jobs.

And this is six months after we signed these two treaties. And they talk about innovation is all about jobs.

And this is six months after we signed these two treaties. And they talk about innovation is all about jobs.

And they make no reference to the two IP treaties that were the underpinning of innovation that they signed earlier that year.

And they make no reference to the two IP treaties that were the underpinning of innovation that they signed earlier that year.

And they make no reference to the two IP treaties that were the underpinning of innovation that they signed earlier that year.

They didn't know a revolution had occurred. Right.

They didn't know a revolution had occurred. Right.

They didn't know a revolution had occurred. Right.

So that's the original sin.

So that's the original sin.

So that's the original sin.