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ISPIM Connects: Connectiv Innovation Research Awarded Prize for Greatest Potential for Impact

Connectiv Innovation is honoured that our latest research, “Scaling Start-ups: Challenges in Canada’s Ecosystem” received ISPIM’s top prize for research, The Dick Marsh Award for the research with the greatest potential for impact.  The International Society of Professional Innovation Management (ISPIM) “Connects” global conference was held in Ottawa last week and more than 50 international …

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Sharing Preliminary Research with the Conference Board of Canada

Connectiv Innovation is honoured that our latest research, “Scaling Start-ups: Challenges in Canada’s Ecosystem” received ISPIM’s top prize for research, The Dick Marsh Award for the research with the greatest potential for impact.  The International Society of Professional Innovation Management (ISPIM) “Connects” global conference was held in Ottawa last week and more than 50 international …

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The Importance of Building a High Performance Innovative Team

Have you even wondered if creativity is something that can be taught or is just in our genes?    At our latest installment of Tech-Connex’s Innovation Peer Group, it was our pleasure to welcome Janice Francisco, Founder and CEO of BridgePoint Effect, a proven, and well recognized innovation consultancy here in Toronto.    In one of our most interactive …

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Design Thinking & Engineering

For our May TechConnex Innovation Peer Group, our special guest speaker Dylan Horvath, the President of Cortex Design, presented on how to adopt human-focused design principles in the creation of physical products.  Key takeaways from the session:   Focus on user experience  Expect and accept failures  Good design = good business  Companies put a lot of thought into …

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Embrace Your Inner Scientist With Behavioural Economics

For our April TechConnex Innovation Peer Group, we were thrilled to have Kelly Peters CEO and Co-founder of BEworks, present driving innovation by bringing behavioural science to the boardroom.  Behavioural science and behavioural economics are getting a great deal of press lately, and well deservedly so. Behavioural economics combines elements of psychology, neuroscience and economics into a cohesive and more scientific approach to solving today’s business …

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