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To enhance innovation we need “intrapreneurship” instead of “heropreneurship”
There is nothing like a little distance from Canada to offer a fresh perspective on what is going on back home. While #elbowgate and #prayforsophie were trending, I was one of a dozen Canadians participating in the BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt’s 5th World Responsible Leaders Forum in Munich. It was not surprising that top of mind amongst the public sector, corporate, and civil society participants gathered at the Forum was the topic of innovation.
Brexit: Where are the women?
On June 23rd, Britain will vote in a national referendum on whether we want to remain part of the European Union, or leave it. As the debate heats up, themes have emerged – immigration, sovereignty, the economy, which box will lead us quickest to apocalypse/World War Three. But one theme stands out to me. And that theme is men. The debate, the campaigns, the voices and the issues have all been overwhelmingly dominated by men.
Pacific NorthWest LNG: Correcting B.C.’s carbon pollution math
Recently, 90 scientists and climate experts sent an open letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau expressing their concerns about the potential climate impacts of the Pacific NorthWest LNG project. In response, B.C. minister of environment Mary Polak told a newspaper that the total carbon pollution from the liquefied natural gas project would be lower than estimated by the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency because of the province’s forthcoming climate plan — much lower, in fact.
Canada's innovation conundrum
Five years ago, the special expert panel on innovation in Canada, chaired by Tom Jenkins, tabled its report, which outlined several policy recommendations for improving Canada’s lackluster research and development portfolio. Last week, the IRPP released a report by Andrei Sulzenko that looks at whether governments have followed up on the Jenkins Report’s recommendations, and what must be done to achieve the current government’s goal of turning Canada into an « innovation powerhouse.
I read Ilona Dougherty’s “To enhance innovation we need ‘intrapreneurship’ instead of ‘heropreneurship’” with some interest. The crux of the piece was this: the so called heropreneurs are to be guarded against, and “we can’t rely on just one sector or just one kind of actor to solve our innovation deficit.” For a brief period, I served as an adviser in the Harper government. Today, I am the CEO of a tech company with offices in Waterloo and San Francisco.
Après le Brexit, le déluge
Well, we’ve gone and done it. After 43 years, Britain has voted to “take back control” and leave the European Union. The question on everybody’s lips in the United (for now) Kingdom this morning is “what next”? It’s a strange question to be asking after months of campaigning; in truth, it should have already been answered by the “leave” campaign, but they never quite managed to get around to it.
Brexit and the vacuum in British politics
Oh, the irony. A Brexit vote that was meant to repatriate democratic accountability back to British shores has instead thrown the very question of accountability up in the air. A clear majority of the British people backed leaving the European Union but no one, least of all the political leaders of the Brexit movement, has any idea what that means in practice or how they will achieve it. The resulting uncertainty is harming the well-being of Britons.
The fragile state of Afghanistan remains one of the greatest development challenges of our time. While the joint work of the Afghan government and the international community brought a few benefits for the country, many have not been sustainable. My visits to Kabul and consultations with Afghans at various levels confirm that a large number of serious challenges remain unaddressed, and they require the priority attention of analysts, policy-makers and bureaucrats.
Now is the time for social innovation
The Trudeau government took office last fall announcing it would reverse Canada’s lagging productivity and competitiveness by investing in social innovation. But it has broken new ground by stating that for its social innovation strategy to succeed, it will require greater collaboration across all ministries as well as between government, industry and research institutions. And it is calling for social innovation across all government departments.
A response to Candice Malcolm’s Losing True North
One of the enduring lessons of my time working on citizenship and multiculturalism issues under former minister Jason Kenney was just how much I and many other public servants were blinded by internal values, ideologies and biases and were thus not able to respond appropriately to the various values, ideologies and biases of the minister and his staff.
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