The Inclusive Innovation Speaker Series presents: Dr. Daniel Munro
Jan 15, 2025 — 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
On Wednesday, January 15, 2024, from 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM EST, the ISSP's Inclusive Innovation Research Cluster is hosting another session in its Inclusive Innovation Speaker Series. This edition will feature Dr. Daniel Munro, who will discuss the rise and fall of the Inclusive Innovation Monitor and lessons for future initiatives.
About the Event
In the depths of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers from the Innovation Policy Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy and the Brookfield Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship built Canada’s first “Inclusive Innovation Monitor” (IIM). The IIM aimed to extend and improve efforts to measure Canada’s innovation performance by addressing some of the gaps in other innovation scorecard initiatives, including, critically, who gets to participate in innovation and how its risks and benefits are distributed across individuals and communities. In this talk, IIM lead researcher Dr. Dan Munro will reflect candidly on what the IIM aspired to be, how it came about, why it (mostly) went away and why it still matters.
Dr. Daniel Munro
Speaker
Dr. Daniel Munro is Director, Research and Innovation at Actua, Canada’s largest youth STEM outreach organization, and Co-Director of Shift Insights, a research and policy organization that examines the social, technological and economic challenges and opportunities facing Canada. Previously, Dr. Munro was a Senior Fellow in Innovation Studies in the Innovation Policy Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto (2017-2024), Research Fellow at the Brookfield Institute for Innovation + Entrepreneurship (2017-2020), Associate Director of Public Policy at the Conference Board of Canada (2008-2017) and Senior Analyst at the Council of Canadian Academies (2007-2008). Dr. Munro’s research and teaching focus on science, technology and innovation policy, skills and education, and applied ethics including the ethics of innovation and space ethics. He holds degrees from the University of Toronto (BA), Western University (MA) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD).