Canadian Centre for the Innovation Economy

Improving Canada’s innovation performance

Canada has a highly educated workforce and strong research capability but fails to turn these advantages into commercial success and innovation-based economic growth. This problem is known as Canada’s innovation paradox.

The Canadian Centre for the Innovation Economy (CCIE) brings together Canadian innovation hubs, institutions, entrepreneurs, governments, corporate partners, and investors to research critical issues facing the innovation community and deliver data-driven insights to decision-makers.

Funded By

Alberta Innovates
Ontario Genomics
Scale AI

Become a Funding Member

Create more impact through a research collective initiative.

Funding members will shape the future of Canada’s innovation performance and economy by ensuring independent, evidence-based innovation research is developed and delivered to government, business, and civil society decision-makers. Pooling dollars from multiple funders allows your money to go further, enabling Conference Board economists and researchers to create more robust and impactful research.

Our Objectives

Drive national innovation performance through applied research and data-driven insights.

Convene thought leaders to advance organizational capacity to scale and compete globally.

Be a trusted voice and destination for communications and policy recommendations on the innovation economy.

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Make Canada’s future bright by enabling evidence-based innovation research.