Science Library Pad: Innovation Strategy consultation in Canada

June 23, 2016

Innovation Strategy consultation in Canada

the Government of Canada will focus on six areas for action:

promoting an entrepreneurial and creative society

supporting global science excellence

building world-leading clusters and partnerships

growing companies and accelerating clean growth

competing in a digital world

improving ease of doing business

press release - Building an inclusive and innovative Canada - June 14, 2016

The Innovation Agenda will look at how to strengthen applied research while promoting partnerships with businesses so that the knowledge and discoveries generated in the lab make their way to the market.

In other words, support for world-class research is critical to making innovation a national priority.

Speech: Launch of Innovation Agenda – Minister Duncan (Minister of Science) - June 14, 2016

The ideas market has launched, you can follow the short link for more information at canada.ca/innovation which will take you to the ISED site http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/062.nsf/eng/home or go directly to the ideas market site at

http://nationofinnovators.ca/index.php?lang=en

You can see the ideas under category Global science excellence at http://nationofinnovators.ca/ideas?view=ideas&layout=1pagetwocol&challenge_id=2

You can also tweet ideas, using hashtag #CdnInnovation

As well, the government has opened a two-week window of consultation on Reddit, which I think means it will close July 6, 2016.

There was a National Press Gallery event (which the above speech is from) and a Canada 2020 event at the Chateau Laurier. The Canada 2020 event was livestreamed and the archive is available on YouTube.

I particularly recommend the presentation by Zayna Khayat, which runs from 41:44 to 57:50. This link will start the video at that time: https://youtu.be/XwyRybnBiMI?t=41m44s

A reminder that the innovation strategy consultation is running in parallel with three other potentially-relevant consultations: