With a shared mission to advance an inclusive innovation economy and democracy in Canada, we are merging with the Leadership Lab as one organization at Toronto Metropolitan University.
Announcing speaker lineup and in-person keynote events at #DXC23
An update on the two new crosswalks we developed that underpins our latest findings in the Digitalization in Canada project.
New changes to the Canada Student Loans program can encourage more future entrepreneurs. But how can it go further in addressing inequities for low-income and marginalized students?
The once-booming tech sector is experiencing layoffs and hiring freezes, but ebbs and flows in this sector operate in a separate ecosystem from the larger economy.
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t the Brookfield Institute for Innovation + Entrepreneurship (BII+E), we’re motivated by the potential of the innovation economy. We believe Canada can build prosperity that will be more widely shared than ever before. To achieve this future, Canada will need forward-looking insights and new thinking to advance actionable innovation policy.
Our multi-disciplinary teams focus on work streams which we believe are critical to Canada’s future economic success. They build collaborative relationships with our partners to generate rigorous research, propose unconventional approaches and pilot ideas to explore how Canada’s innovation economy can include people of different ages, incomes and backgrounds.
We seek to understand how jobs and skills across Canada are being impacted by technological change, such as automation and digital augmentation, to help companies and people gain the skills they need to adapt and thrive in an innovation-driven economy.
Exploring how digital technology has impacted Canadian workers and their occupations since the turn of the century and how policymakers, business leaders, workforce developers and unions can address the challenges ahead.
This report offers a comprehensive look into how technology has impacted jobs and workers across 500 occupations in Canada in the last 15 years.
Looking at the many faces behind Canada’s tech occupations, with a focus on who are Canada’s tech workers? Where do they work? And what do they earn?
This report explores the risks and rewards automation and outlines the dual challenge technology advances present to Ontario’s economy—to simultaneously improve lagging technological adoption, while mitigating its negative impacts for some workers—and proposes a bold strategy to meet this challenge head on.
These are the areas we focus on within the innovation-driven economy.
