National and Global
- Book: Ingenious How Canadian Innovators Made the World Ingenious
-- by David Johnston (current Lieutenant Govenor of Canada) and Tom Jenkins
- online database of Canadian innovation stories
https://www.cigionline.org/publications/diversity-dividend-canadas-global-advantage
- pdf research report: "Diversity Dividend: Canada's Global Advantage"
- how diversity is + correlated to revenue and productivity in business via + innovation
GCI - Global Creativity Index
- Canada in top 10
- 3Ts: Talent, Technology and Tolerance
Canada ranks #1 on Tolerance, #13 on Talent, #14 on Technology.Talent is scored by % of population in creative occupations, and % of population with tertiary education. This score, and Tolerance could be proxies for something more general such as Openness in the 5-factor model, which in turn may be a proxy for creativity and innovation which in turn be proxies for the ability to break ideas into elements and re-combine elements from different domains, as in Creative Strategy.A problem translating macroeconomic correlates: finding micro-economic/local initiatives that capture the most causal elements.
GII - Global Innovation Index
- Canada in the top 20
- room for improvement: innovation efficiency
Innovation efficiency is a score related to the ratio of innovation outputs -like new products and services- to innovation inputs -like research. Generally we have good university research, public research institutions and ample SR&ED tax credits for private research. Those are inputs. We aren't getting our bang-for-the-buck on outputs. According to the GII - which does it's best to find metrics. Some things in Canada might not be easy to measure. For example internal processes in oil and gas manufacturing industry - the tar sands processes. The outputs don't look like new products -its the same old thing, gas and oil. But innovation in the internal processes may not be easy to measure.
So the idea is not to take the GII ranking too literally. Rather use it as a hint to where we might improve.
- not sure if this is for policy innovation, or encouraging innovation for economic growth