Reshika Dhir examines Canadian IP retention in TheFutureEconomy.ca

Principal Reshika Dhir recently wrote a piece featured in TheFutureEconomy.ca exploring a growing challenge in Canada’s innovation economy: the quiet migration of valuable intellectual property to other countries. 

In “Keeping Canada’s Ideas at Home: Canadian IP Retention in a Digital Economy,” she looks at how promising Canadian companies can be pushed to move ownership of their patents, data and other core assets abroad as they seek capital and scale. Using the recent controversy involving Y Combinator as a starting point, she explains how small structural pressures can gradually shift Canadian-made innovation out of the country. 

The article highlights how foreign investment terms, commercialization gaps and legal defaults can all contribute to “IP flight,” often without founders fully recognizing the long-term impact.  

“The question is no longer whether Canada can innovate. It is whether we can own what we create to build a globally competitive economy that captures the long-term value of Canadian IP.”  

-Reshika Dhir  

Read the full article on TheFutureEconomy.ca.