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Accelerating Innovation For Jobs and Growth Dave Robitaille, IBM Canada
The Canadian Innovation Climate
1. Broad Industry trends in innovation
– What is IBM doing in Canada to drive and support innovation
The Canadian Innovation Climate 2. How will Niagara succeed over the next 10-20 years in this environment?
The Canadian Innovation Climate 3. What can individuals and organizations do to be in front of these trends?
Innovation Report Card
Grade B
Grade C
4 U.S.A.
5 Ontario
6 Switzerland 12 Canada
7 Netherlands 13 Germany
Grade A
8 Quebec 14 Japan
9 Austria 15 Alberta
1 Sweden
10 British Columbia 16 Australia
2 Denmark
11 Norway 17 Belgium
3 Finland
18 U.K.
19 France
The Canadian Economic Climate
Canadian Chamber of Commerce
TOP 10
Barriers to
Competitiveness
1. Public policies block small companies from becoming bigger 7. Canada is not ready for climate change
Canada has tax barriers and policies in place that keep its small
businesses from growing into big businesses with more resources to
2016
Canada must keep pace to maintain its competitiveness as a location
for investment and a source of products.
hire, invest and innovate.
8. Internal barriers to trade cost Canadians billions and restrict
2. Canada is vulnerable to cyber crime investment
Canada loses $3.12 billion to cyber crime per year, and nearly half of all The Canadian economy remains divided by artificial barriers to trade
small businesses have been the victim of a cyber attack because they and labour mobility that frustrate business investment and cost
are less equipped to handle attacks. consumers billions of dollars every year.
3.
3. Canada needs a more aggressive and effective innovation 9. Lack of clarity regarding businesses’ responsibilities to Aboriginal
strategy Canada needs a more aggressive and effective innovation strategy
Canada needs to reinvest in an innovation ecosystem that
peoples constrains investment
Canada needs meaningful reconciliation with its Aboriginal peoples.
Canada needs to reinvest in an innovation
supports the capability of business to rapidly respond to change.
10. Canada’s brandecosystem thatcompetitiveness
does not support business supports the
4.
capability of business to rapidly respond
Canada’s trade agenda—new agreements are just the start
Canada has been aggressive in pursuing new trade agreements over
to change.
A strong business brand would encourage foreign direct investment in
Canada, increase awareness of Canadian export products and
the past few years but its businesses continue to face substantial support Canada’s tourism industry.
barriers expanding abroad, and Canadian exporters are falling behind in
key markets like China.
5. Canadian resources cannot get to world markets
Canada’s trade and foreign investment flows depend on natural
resources and its future economic prosperity depends upon its ability to
provide reliable infrastructure to allow Canadian energy resources to fuel
Asian economic growth at world market prices.
6. Poor literacy, numeracy and digital skills are limiting productivity in
segments of Canada’s workforce
Half of Canadians do not have the levels of literacy, numeracy and
digital problem solving skills they need to compete in today’s economy.
The New Trends in Driving Innovation 1. All true innovation must have broad, multi-sector collaboration to achieve speed and scale § Public-Private Partnerships § Academia, Government, Private Sectors § Commitment to growing Canadian innovation and speed to market
Addressing Canadian challenges and driving IBM Strategy
VISION MISSION
To make IBM essential To collaborate with
and relevant in Canada academia, industry and
by providing IBM government to accelerate
technologies that research, drive new
change the business innovation, incubate
landscape and drive ideas and commercialize
new discoveries / outcomes both inside and
products. outside IBM.
Accelerate
Collaborative Expand and commercialization of Attract Investment
Innovation Centres Accelerate Research “Made in Canada”
products and servicesThe New Trends in Driving Innovation
2. The move to ‘Demand-Pull’ Disruptive Innovation
§ Extreme client intimacy, and developing solutions to real problems, not just
upgrading to the next level of whiz-bang technology
§ Putting more disruptive technologies in more hands, faster, to assist human
creativity. Leveraging decision-assisting tools like IBM Watson
§ If you can buy it at the local electronics store, it is not disruptive. But many of
today’s disruptive quickly becomes tomorrow’s commodityDisruptive Technologies/Platform • Advanced Software Tools: Platform as a Service (PaaS) to build, run, deploy and manage applications on the cloud. • Cloud Technology: Computer hardware and software resources delivered over the network, often as a service • Artificial Intelligence: cognitive computing as a set of routines, protocols, and tools for building software apps • Internet of Things: Networks of sensors and actuators for data collection, monitoring, decision making • Mobile Internet: Increasingly inexpensive and capable mobile computing devices and Internet connectivity • High-Performance Computing Platforms: Supercomputer, data analytics cloud computing cluster, Agile/FPGA environment and Large Memory System (LMS)
The New Trends in Driving Innovation
3. Increased focus on scale
§ Canada has tremendous university capacity delivering world-class research and
prototyping
§ Need to increase focus on global competitiveness
§ Bringing Canadian ingenuity to full-scaleIBM Canada Innovation Strategic Initiatives
2012 - 2015
Alberta Centre for
Advanced Studies
(CAS) IBM Incubator Nfld: Centre for Health
Initiatives Informatics & Analytics
Smart Ocean’s BC
Ocean Networks
C2MI
CARET
3600 (Venture Lab,
SOWC UHN 1.0
Nova
Scotia
SOSCIP 1.0
SOSCIP 2.0IBM Canada Innovation Initiatives
2017
+ ~50 Individual Innovation Files / Pursuits / Engagements
IBM “Big Play”
CFREF : 7 of 13 and $450M of $900M
UdeM Bengio
(with IBM Res)
J&J + MaRs
Alberta Centre for
(Jlabs
Advanced Studies Incubator) CIMVHR
(CAS) MAN IBM Incubator Nfld: Centre for Health
(with BTIL) Aquahacking Informatics & Analytics
CAS Renew MTI Initiatives
Hamilton
LiKaShing Res Inst (expansion)
Smart Ocean’s BC Healthcare
(with SOSCIP) COE
Ocean Networks CANet
Sask CIP CGLR McGill
Alta Child Hosp Res Venture Labs C2MI (MNI)
Inst (ACHRI) NB Cyber
PCIP (@3600) OBI COE NS CIC +
+ BCIC District
Connected (Parkinsons) NB: McCain / CARET
Ventures UH QCIP UNB/SOC 1.0
Inc/Accelerat Car
3600 (Venture Lab,
SOWC Nova
IBM Innov Incubator N
or (I3) Scotia Caret 2.0
EncQor Nova Scotia
Queens
SOSCIP 1.0
185 Spadina and 3600
Cognitive
DMZ Bluemix Garage PQ CIC
NS: Deepsense
Communitech
MaRSSOSCIP 2.0 Ocean’s COE
CENGN
Venture Labs
Invest OttawaCanadian Innovation Ecosystem
addressing Canadian challenges…
COLLABORATION BETWEEN GOVERNMENT/INDUSTRY/ACADEMICS
Bolster skills and economic development through a ground-breaking collaborative research
models focused on important aspects of Canadian society/economics
ACCESS TO DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGIES
Provide collaborators with support and access to a unique and globally leading technology
and research infrastructure to expand and accelerate research scope and outcomes
DEMAND PULL vs SUPPLY PUSH
Accelerate commercialization of “Made in Canada” new products and services, by linking
small-med sized businesses to large industry customers – DEMAND PULL
ENTERPRISE SCALE @ Start-up AGILITY
Investment in global and enterprise scale solutions 3How Will Niagara Succeed Over the Next 10-20 years?
1. Focus on Youth Retention and Attraction
§ One of the oldest populations in Canada
§ Opportunity for campaign to ‘poach’ talent from the GTA and beyond
§ Develop the conditions for economic success by supporting the entrepreneurial
marketspaceHow Will Niagara Succeed Over the Next 10-20 years?
2. Focus on skills development
§ Starting at K-12 to develop a culture of post-secondary completion
§ The technology is the curriculum
§ Youth retention is critical
Niagara school makes the grade for at-risk students trying to attend college, university
Entire graduating class has been accepted to college or university, blazing trails in their own familiesHow Will Niagara Succeed Over the Next 10-20 years? 3. Focus on Entrepreneurship, and start-up culture § Starting in K-12, teaching students the skills to operate their own businesses § Working with youth on collaborative problem-solving as economic opportunity § Orienting local economic development activity to small business
What Can Individuals and Organizations Do? 1. Constantly seek innovation in your business 2. Invest in new markets and products/services 2. Embrace the new economy – don’t fight it
Thank You!
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