McMaster-led projects include the Good Bugs, Bad Bugs program, led by infectious disease researcher Eric Brown, the Canadian Centre for Electron Microscopy, led by engineer Gianluigi Botton, and the Canadian Research Data Centre Network, led by economist Mike Veall.
The funding will support the Good Bugs, Bad Bugs program as well as the Canadian Research Data Centre Network.
Economist Pau Pujolas says the problem is that Canada’s Total Factor Productivity has stagnated for more than a decade, when it should have been growing.