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This week’s guest post first appeared<\/a> on SiG’s (Social Innovation Generation) website and is reposted here with permission.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

In July 2015, an emerging cross-sector alliance of social innovators, thinkers, activists, pragmatists and advocates came together to explore how R&D for social impact could become more accessible, supported, integrated, diffuse and intentional. The result? A Declaration of Action<\/a>.<\/p>\n

All are welcome to join this alliance of activity and inquiry \u2013 please email info@sigeneration.ca<\/a> to sign this declaration for a robust, networked and cross-sector social R&D ecosystem and\/or to sign-up for news & updates as the ecosystem develops.<\/p>\n

An audacious opportunity<\/h3>\n

\u00a0As an emerging alliance of front-line innovators, professionals, advocates, academics, nonprofit and foundation leaders, entrepreneurs, and public policy professionals:<\/em> We declare a commitment to generate intentional, networked, and shared Research & Development (R&D) capabilities for lasting, positive social outcomes.<\/em><\/p>\n

Our view is Canada\u2019s innovation culture and ecosystem requires a networked, cross-sector R&D approach if we are to achieve the positive social outcomes we seek.<\/em><\/p>\n

Creating the conditions for innovation requires our collective commitment to enable and advance R&D for social impact.<\/em><\/p>\n

Canada\u2019s upcoming 150th birthday in 2017 is an audacious opportunity for this country to lead the world in advancing breakthroughs in complex social, economic and environmental challenges through open, networked and distributed R&D for societal well-being. Over the past 12 months, a common call has been heard at gatherings, in research, around milestones and in working groups across the country around tackling entrenched challenges by animating cross-sector innovation and R&D.<\/p>\n

We see R&D as complementary and reinforcing activities that unleash continuous process, product, policy, service, structural, and systems innovation across society.<\/p>\n

These activities include, but are not limited to:<\/p>\n

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Looking:<\/h6>\n<\/td>\n
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Exploring, community-led inquiry, ethnography, lit review, case studies, data sourcing<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Thinking:<\/h6>\n<\/td>\n
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Brainstorming, generating hypotheses, leveraging small, big and open data<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Developing:<\/h6>\n<\/td>\n
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Designing and testing, piloting, prototyping, evaluating, designing feedback loops, co-production<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Diffusing:<\/h6>\n<\/td>\n
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Building\/sharing capacity, aggregating\/sharing lessons from success, failure and process development, leaping by learning<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

A cross-sector social impact R&D approach will significantly enhance the work of Canada\u2019s innovation ecosystem and propel us towards long-term social and economic prosperity.<\/p>\n

Declaration<\/h3>\n

Now is the time to seed and lead a vibrant ecosystem of public good R&D-enabled innovation across corporate, academic, public and community sectors to generate lasting positive impact.<\/p>\n

We believe that an advanced R&D approach necessarily:<\/p>\n