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RURAL DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE
National Rural Development Conference,
Limerick, Ireland July 8, 2015.
Innovation & commercialization:
rural challenges & multi-level
responses
Bill Ashton, MCIP, PhD
Director, Rural Development Institute
Brandon University,
Brandon, Manitoba, Canada
(204) 571-8513 [email protected]
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RURAL DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE
Overview
Innovation strategies for rural Manitoba
Purpose
• Innovation. It matters &
needed
• Rural response
Road map
• About RDI & new initiative
• Define innovation
• Gaps
• Barriers
• Rural examples
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RURAL DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE
About RDI
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RURAL DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE
About RDI
• Mission Contribute to
evidence-based rural
policy discussions with
stakeholders
• Mandates – Applied research
– Disseminate knowledge
– Learning
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RURAL DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE
About RDI
• Engaging stakeholders
• Conducting research
• Informing policy and
practices
Stakeholders
Perspectives
Public
Policy
Practice Research
“Applied research is an
approach for identifying
and solving problems
and responding to
opportunities with
others, eg.
stakeholders”
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RURAL DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE
About RDI Strategic research directions Selection of projects & activities
Immigration & labour force -Northern Territorial consultations
-29 community consultations
*Refugees in rural areas
Rural economic development -Regional development models (MB)
-Think tank – Prairie eco strategy
-Functional economic rural regions
Governance and capacity bldg -Municipal amalgamation (111 to 49)
-Local immigration partnerships
Infrastructure & services -Rural broadband (Ireland & Cda)
Innovation & commercialization -Food processing trajectory to 2020
-Growth from innovation
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RURAL DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE
About RDI
• 500 reports & presentations – free
• Journal of Rural and Community
Development – free
Access to knowledge
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RURAL DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE
About RDI
66 BU Faculty & 539 other faculty, 96 faculty peer
reviewed articles, 5 books and chapters, 66 reports, 69 conferences/learning events
since 2009
229 BU students and 100 other
students, 31 reports, presentations &
$422,000+ student wages since 2009
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RURAL DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE
About RDI
• Partnership bldg
• $2.5M Cdn
• 7 yrs, 2014-2021
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RURAL DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE
About RDI
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RURAL DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE
Rural innovation
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RURAL DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE
What is Innovation?
Innovation strategies for rural Manitoba
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RURAL DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE
What is Innovation?
Innovation strategies for rural Manitoba
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RURAL DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE
3 dimensions of innovation
Sources: Agriculture Canada, 2006; Becheikh, 2006; OECD, 2004, Ashton et al. 2015.
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RURAL DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE
What is Commercialization?
Innovation strategies for rural Manitoba
Innovation ecology
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RURAL DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE
Systemic Barriers
Innovation strategies for rural Manitoba
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RURAL DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE
Innovation approaches in rural Manitoba
Innovation strategies for rural Manitoba
3 cases
• Provincial
approach
• Rural regional
approach
• Rural sector
approach
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RURAL DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE
Provincial Approach
Innovation strategies for rural Manitoba
Innovation ecology – local & global
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RURAL DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE
Provincial Approach
Innovation strategies for rural Manitoba
http://www.gov.mb.ca/jec/busdev/sibd/pdfs/innovation_strategy.pdf
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RURAL DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE
Rural Regional Approach
Innovation strategies for rural Manitoba
Address barriers • Fragmented supports
• Risk-adverse culture
Building on strengths • Diversification centres
• Business advisors
• Ag associations
• Start up funding
• Capital Funding $1-3m
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RURAL DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE
Rural Regional Approach
Innovation strategies for rural Manitoba
• 62 municipalities
• Economic
strengths
- Agriculture,
Construction,
Oil & gas
• Distance to
market
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RURAL DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE
Rural Regional Approach
Innovation strategies for rural Manitoba
A continuum of opportunities for
adaptation & adoption in innovation
• from elsewhere into the community, and
• from the community into the world
Transfer Transfer Transfer Transfer Transfer
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Step 1: Strategic
roundtable
meeting
Step 2:
Action plan
Step 3:
Demonstration
Step 4:
Leading
innovation
transfer
SRDC Roles • Identify & invite
association and
related
stakeholders to
meeting
• Provide facilitator
• Work
collaboratively
with
association to
define roles
• Assist
association with
extending
invitations
throughout the
southwest to a
“bright idea”
demonstration
• Organize a
leadership
debriefing
meeting with
association and
stakeholders
Association
Roles
• Bring forward 2-4
transferable
innovations
suitable for the
southwest
• Commit to
lead
innovation
transfer
• Lead
demonstration
activities with
SRDC
• Provide
feedback about
the innovation
transfer process
Outcomes • Innovation to
transfer is
selected
• Roles are
outlined
• Innovation is
demonstrated
• Feedback
gathered
• Entrepreneurship
culture supported
• Innovation
transferred is
learned by the
SRDC and
association
Innovation strategies for rural Manitoba
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RURAL DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE
Rural Region Approach
Innovation strategies for rural Manitoba
• Fund a coordinator, multiple years
• Sponsor events – Makers’ Fairs
• Strengthen network / innovation
helix – business, community,
govt, post-secondary
• Equip associations –
certify innovation facilitators
• Learn innovation by doing it
– high school, college, and university
curriculum
• Legitimize & celebrate
innovation – social marketing
campaigns
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RURAL DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE
Rural Sectoral Approach
Source: Ashton et al. 2014.
12,000 MB
employees
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RURAL DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE
Rural Sectoral Approach
Source: Ashton et al. 2014.
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RURAL DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE
Rural Sectoral Approach
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RURAL DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE
3 dimensions of innovation
Sources: Agriculture Canada, 2006; Becheikh, 2006; OECD, 2004, Ashton et al. 2015.
16 18
10 7
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RURAL DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE
Rural Sectoral Approach
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RURAL DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE
Rural Sectoral Approach
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RURAL DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE
Rural Sectoral Approach
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RURAL DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE
Rural Sectoral Approach
Innovation strategies for rural Manitoba
• Expand market for products
• Increase market share
• Increase efficiency – profits
• Create new companies – profit centres
• Diversify expertise with new employees
• Continue R&D to remain competitive
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RURAL DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE
Rural Matters in Innovation
Innovation strategies for rural Manitoba
Summary
• Several approaches
needed, Not one
• Geographical coverage &
accessible infrastructure
• Adaptation & adoption
with regional capacity
• Not one, many along
sectoral supply chain
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RURAL DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE
Rural Matters in Innovation
Innovation strategies for rural Manitoba
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RURAL DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE
Rural Matters in Innovation
Innovation strategies for rural Manitoba
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