Université de Montréal
11-12 June 2024
The second edition of the Canadian Forum for Social Innovation will convene stakeholders across sectors to identify key actions and best-practices for capacity building and skills development in the social innovation ecosystem. Building on emerging consensus, the program will alternate between participatory plenary roundtables and deliberative workshops to create a Roadmap. The genuinely cross-sectoral setting will provide an opportunity to learn from a variety of perspectives in an effort to reduce barriers to knowledge-driven collaboration and partnerships and increase universities’ place-based connectivity to streamline impact and techno-social transitions.
What strategy does Canada need to bolster talent and knowledge mobilization in a fully connected innovation ecosystem, prepared to tackle local, national and global challenges and to promote sustainable social, cultural, environmental and economic prosperity?
Key Strategy and Policy Issues:
- The role of science advice and social innovation at all levels of government
- Capacity for innovation in the social sector
- Needs around evidence-based policy for innovation and the research support system
- Campus-community relationships and the challenges of knowledge mobilization across the innovation ecosystem
- Contributions of Indigenous knowledge and decolonial approaches in an inclusive and diverse social innovation ecosystem
On 11 and 12 June 2024 in Montreal, Forum guests participated in an immersive backcasting exercises aiming at creating a roadmap for Canada’s innovation ecosystem with the aim to formulate an agenda for Canada 2040 that revolves around collective action to increase talent and expertise for the social impact ecosystem and social transitions.
Goal 1. A strategy to support All Dimensions of Innovation Across All Zones of Impact
The Canadian research and higher education systems are supported by an innovation strategy that places society at the core of its models. Knowledge and talent for innovation in in all zones of impact equally support social, cultural, environmental and economic prosperity.
Goal 2. Skills and Talent Across Innovation Ecosystems
Innovation ecosystems benefit from the diversity and mobility of skills in highly qualified multidisciplinary talent. Universities and colleges each play their unique role in generating the skills and expertise that bolster inclusive innovation across all zones of impact
Goal 3. Infrastructure and Capacity for Connectivity Across Innovation Ecosystems
In Canada, infrastructures are in place within and between universities, colleges, industry, social sector and public sector to ensure that all aspects of innovation processes are supported. Innovation is enabled by intentional ecosystem capacity building and transition mediation strategies in all zones of impact.
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