Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/337188 
Year of Publication: 
2025
Series/Report no.: 
CIGI Papers No. 340
Publisher: 
Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), Waterloo (Ontario)
Abstract: 
Canada's economic and national security depends on how the country manages its intellectual assets and intellectual property (IP). Looking at the concepts of economic warfare and economic security through an IP lens, this paper examines how attacks against IP can exploit fragmented policy regimes, putting economic security and sovereignty at risk. The authors make five recommendations to address these concerns: create an open-source intelligence agency, protect the outputs of Canadian research, strengthen foreign investment controls, invest in sovereign cloud compute and storage, and coordinate federal legal frameworks.
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