Canada's Budget 2024 (April 16th) announced the intention to develop a new "National Science and Innovation Strategy," with further details to be provided in the Fall Update. ICI Canada will contribute to this federal initiative.
We introduced ICI Canada's mission and the Canada Innovates Project at several national conferences, includuing Research Money (April 23, 24), Social Innovation Canada (April 26), and CSPC: Decoding the Federal Budget (May 1).
A brainstorming session with 3 outside experts was held on April 29th and an initial schema conceptualizing the STI ecosystem in a productivity framework was produced called the Polycrisis, Productivity, and Innovation (PPI) Framework.