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Delvinia partners with Mitacs to fund an academic study exploring why highly-skilled STEM graduates are opting to leave Canada to seek work elsewhere<\/em><\/p>\n

Thursday, December 7th (TORONTO, ON)<\/strong> \u2013 Delvinia, a technology scale-up specializing in innovative data collection, today announced the sponsorship of a research study in partnership with Mitacs<\/a> that will explore brain drain in the technology and innovation sectors.<\/p>\n

The study, being conducted by researchers at Brock University<\/a> and the University of Toronto<\/a>, will aim to uncover the reasons why some highly skilled professionals in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) professions opt to leave Canada after their post-secondary education to seek work in other countries.<\/p>\n

Human capital migration, or brain drain as it is more commonly known, is a long-debated subject in Canadian public policy \u2013 primarily in relation to doctors and other medical professionals. However, the issue is becoming increasingly important for Canada\u2019s growing technology and innovation sector as businesses are looking to grow and find talent to support this expansion.<\/p>\n

\u201cRetaining talent in Canada has been identified as a significant challenge by many of the technology CEOs who are members of the Council of Canadian Innovators<\/a> (CCI),\u201d said Adam Froman<\/a>, Delvinia CEO and a CCI board member. \u201cAs an entrepreneur and the CEO of a Canadian company that\u2019s growing and trying to attract top talent, I wanted to be part of the solution, so Delvinia stepped in to initiate and fund this research project.\u201d<\/p>\n

Zachary Spicer, Senior Associate, Innovation Policy Lab<\/a> at the University of Toronto\u2019s Munk School of Global Affairs, is the primary researcher on the project. Dr. Nicole Goodman, Assistant Professor, Political Science at Brock University, and Dr. David Wolfe, Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto Mississauga and Co-Director of the Innovation Policy Lab, are the academic supervisors.<\/p>\n

The goal of the study is to answer the following three key research questions:<\/p>\n