E. Louise Earl
Sobey School of Business
Management Department
Adjunct Professor
E. Louise Earl has extensive national and international experience in the measurement of science, technology, and innovation (ST&I) and the development of related statistical indicators. She is well known for championing the measurement of innovation to all sectors of the economy and developing methods to measure knowledge management, intellectual property and other innovation and technology management and use practices.
Ms. Earl has co-edited, authored, and contributed to numerous chapters, volumes, and classification manuals in the field of ST&I measurement. She was vice chair of the OECD’s Working Party of National Experts on Science and Technology Indicators from 2016 to 2018 when she left Statistics Canada to join the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat. From 2018 to 2020, Ms. Earl developed and implemented research and data plans for Canada’s suite of business innovation and growth support programmes.
In 2020, she became a Senior Fellow with the Institute for Science, Society, and Policy associated with the inclusive innovation research cluster and a Research Associate with the Institute on Governance affiliated to the Government Science in the New Normal (GSINN) project. For GSINN, she co-authored three studies on the themes of inclusive innovation; equity, diversity, and inclusion; and skills and knowledge. From 2021 to 2023, Ms. Earl was the Project Research Advisor of Protein Industries Canada’s Food Convergence Innovation project through the Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa.