Canada’s AI Strategy and Missed Commercial Opportunities - Part 4

Historical Precedents of Tech Atrophy: DALSA (Waterloo, ON), began as an innovative contract-research firm developing early mail/check-scanning vision systems, flat-panel inspection sensors, and Mars rover imaging hardware, but was eventually acquired by foreign private equity.

BlackBerry & Miovision: Opportunities to redeploy legacy tech giants or scale niche leaders (e.g., Miovision in intelligent traffic systems) into large-scale urban infrastructure providers were overlooked in favor of foreign tech solutions.

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