knowldge mobilization as an institutional priority

Where knowledge mobilization is an institutional priority David Phipps, PhD. MBA, Executive Director, Research & Innovation Services @researchimpact

This is research with impact

Hynie & Singh (2008) The International Journal of Diversity in Organisations, Communities and Nations, Volume 8, Issue 4, pp.117-124.

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January 2005: Inclusivity Summit

May 2005: HSPC adopted and launched IAP

November 2007: IAP Evaluation Launched (Michaela Hynie and Mina Singh: York University)

December 2007: KM Unit approved matching funding: policy briefs and best practice models

February 2008: Evaluation Report presented to IAP Steering Committee → rec. to York Region Council invest +$20M in 5 new Welcome Centres, create 86 jobs, +48,000 newcomer services delivered over 5 years

Knowledge Mobilization helps make research useful to society by supporting engaged research from inception to impact.

An institutional priority? 2.2 Enhance the quality and quantity of research and knowledge mobilization aimed at shaping the public debate, law and policy reform, social and economic enterprise, and improving the outcomes of York research for society

2.3 Increase the number of our research partnerships, and increase the networks and other points of contact between partners

2.8 Establish York as an innovation hub by increasing and promoting the translational and entrepreneurial activities offered by Innovation York, and the Knowledge Mobilization group, including the Markham Convergence Centre, LaunchYU and newly emerging innovation activities in the Faculties

York a national leader in large-scale, collaborative SSHRC grants, which provide individual and conjoint collaboration with partners from the non-profit, public and private sectors. York turns its research into action to benefit local and global citizens. We accomplish and will continue to accomplish this by supporting knowledge mobilization, research commercialization and social entrepreneurship across the University.

An institutional priority?

Develop York’s Innovation Landscape, supporting partnerships and translating research into action • Innovation York (IY) to coordinate

research innovation development at York and provide a first point of contact for external engagement with York with respect to external research application, commercialization and entrepreneurship.

• Incorporate the Knowledge Mobilization group of ORS into IY to enhance the crossover of knowledge mobilization into entrepreneurship and commercial application.

An institutional priority?

• Research funding • Reputation (think recruitment)

− engaged learning (undergrad, grad) − engaged scholarship (student, post-doc, faculty)

• Community engagement • Impacts of research beyond citation rankings

KMb Unit at York 2006-2015

Faculty Engaged in KMb 331 Graduate Students Engaged in KMb 186

Information Sessions 683

Brokering Opportunities 484

KMb Projects / Activities 177 / 118

Partnership Organizations 306

Community Funding $1.14 M

Contract Funding $1.24 M

Engaged Scholarship Funding $47.50 M

Brokering research partnerships

Supporting events

Capacity building

Grant support

How to make $49M

• Partners/Audiences • Goals • Activities • Impact Assessment • Budget

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnOBBzWkfFs

ResearchImpact-RéseauImpactRecherche

Group of 12 Canadian universities actively developing programming for knowledge mobilization to transfer research into social and economic benefits for local and global communities

We build Canada’s capacity to be a leader in knowledge mobilization by developing and sharing best practices, services and tools, and by demonstrating to relevant stakeholders and the public the positive impacts of mobilizing knowledge.

We will maximize the impact of university research for the social, cultural, economic, environmental, and health benefits across local and global communities.

• academic research contributes to social, cultural, economic, environmental, and health benefits across local and global communities.

• the university research enterprise encompasses research, scholarship and creative activity by faculty, students and staff across all disciplines.

• community, industry and government partners are active participants in conducting research

Structure/Function

Central Research Services

Research Partnership Office

Community Based Research

Economic Development

Public Engagement

Living Lab

Decentralized

Policy focus

1. Membership: colleges, hospitals, universities, international 2. Research impact assessment 3. Inclusive innovation

“Innovation is the path to inclusive growth. It fosters a thriving middle class and opens the country to new economic, social and environmental possibilities”

ISED (2016) Positioning Canada to Lead: an inclusive innovation agenda http://news.gc.ca/web/article-en.do?nid=1084739

“There are mounting concerns about rising inequality, within and across nations, with louder calls to leverage technology and innovation for social good”

Minister Navdeep Bains (2016) Innovation should be a Canadian value.

https://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2016/05/07/innovation-should-be-a-canadian-value.html

Inclusive innovation means everyone has a role. “Success hinges on partnerships and inclusiveness” including governments, private sector, academia,

civil society

Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (2016) An inclusive innovation agenda: engaging all Canadians

“Technology needs to serve the cause of human progress, not serve as a substitute for

it, or as a distraction from its absence. Simply put, everybody needs to benefit from growth in order to sustain growth.”

Rt. Hon. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau

http://pm.gc.ca/eng/news/2016/01/20/canadian-opportunity-address-right-honourable-justin-trudeau-prime-minister-canada

INCLUSIVE INNOVATION

“The government should enhance support for multi-disciplinary knowledge-mobilization networks, such as the ResearchImpact Network, to scale up existing services that connect the public, private, not-for-profit and higher education sectors.” “Through ResearchImpact, universities are using knowledge mobilization to generate socially useful research and to provide it to decision-makers, policy-makers, and practitioners, in collaboration with community, industry, and government partners.” Citing ResearchImpact-RéseauImpactRecherche, Social Innovation Generation recommended to Minister Navdeep Bains “Support pan-Canadian initiatives that enhance the connectivity of academic researchers and students to the broader public policy and R&D communities coalescing around solving complex national social and environmental challenges.” J.W. McConnell Family Foundation recommended Minister Navdeep Bains create incentives for regional and national platforms/networks for campus community collaboration and hold those platforms to account for short-term (three-year) outcomes that will generate long term (5-10 year) economic, social and environmental impacts