for UBC SPARC, UILO, Community Engagement, 170111

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

2. 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.
→
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

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

4. 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

5. 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?

6. 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?

8. • Research funding
• Reputation (think recruitment)
− engaged learning (undergrad, grad)
− engaged scholarship (student, post-doc, faculty)
• Community engagement
• Impacts of research beyond citation rankings

9. 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

12.  Brokering research partnerships
 Supporting events
 Capacity building
 Grant support

13. How to make
$49M
• Partners/Audiences
• Goals
• Activities
• Impact Assessment
• Budget

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

17. 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

18. 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.

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

20. • 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

21. Structure/Function
Central Research Services
Research Partnership
Office
Community Based
Research
Economic Development
Public Engagement
Living Lab
Decentralized
Policy focus

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

25. “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

26. “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