Rise and Fall of the Inclusive Innovation Monitor and Lessons for Future Initiatives
In the depths of the COVID pandemic, researchers from the Innovation Policy Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy and the Brookfield Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship built Canada’s first “Inclusive Innovation Monitor” (IIM). The IIM aimed to extend and improve efforts to measure Canada’s innovation performance by addressing some of the gaps in other innovation scorecard initiatives including, critically, who gets to participate in innovation, and how its risks and benefits are distributed across In the depths of the COVID pandemic, researchers from the Innovation Policy Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy and the Brookfield Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship built Canada’s first “Inclusive Innovation Monitor” (IIM). The IIM aimed to extend and improve efforts to measure Canada’s innovation performance by addressing some of the gaps in other innovation scorecard initiatives including, critically, who gets to participate in innovation, and how its risks and benefits are distributed across individuals and communities. In this talk, IIM lead researcher, Dan Munro, will reflect candidly on what the IIM aspired to be, how it came about, why it (mostly) went away and why it still matters.
About the speaker:
Daniel Munro
Dr. Daniel Munro is Director, Research and Innovation at Actua, Canada’s largest youth STEM outreach organization, and Co-Director of Shift Insights, a research and policy shop that examines the social, technological and economic challenges and opportunities facing Canada. Previously, Dan was Senior Fellow in Innovation Studies in the Innovation Policy Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy at the University of Toronto (2017-2024), Research Fellow at the Brookfield Institute for Innovation + Entrepreneurship (2017-2020), Associate Director of Public Policy at the Conference Board of Canada (2008-2017) and Senior Analyst at the Council of Canadian Academies (2007-2008). Dan’s research and teaching focus on science, technology and innovation policy; skills and education; and applied ethics, including the ethics of innovation and space ethics. He holds degrees from the University of Toronto (BA), Western University (MA) and M.I.T. (PhD).