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Innovation Policy encompasses all policies governing the Canadian innovation ecosystem, which includes all areas of innovation and economic development, private sector R&D, commercialization and technology policies and more. This also includes social innovation.
Science for Policy is the application and use of scientific research and knowledge to inform evidence-based decisions for public policy and regulations in all policy areas, not limited to but including public-interest policy priorities such as health, environment, national security, education, criminal justice and others.
The Policy for Science Award recognizes an individual who has pioneered policies and practices to improve the development of new technologies, capacity building and research infrastructure. Policy for Science focuses on management of science enterprises, the production of new knowledge, the development of new technology, capacity building, training highly quality personnel and research infrastructure. In general, the key targets of Policy for Science are post-secondary institutions, research funding organizations and government science-based departments and agencies.
Science Policy is inclusive of both policy for science and science for policy. Policy for Science focuses on management of science enterprises, i.e., the generation of new knowledge, the development of new technology, capacity building, training highly qualified personnel and research infrastructure. In general, the key targets of policy for science are post-secondary institutions, research funding organizations and government science-based departments and agencies. Science for policy is the application and use of scientific research and knowledge to inform evidence-based decisions for public policy and regulations in all policy areas, not limited to but including public-interest policy priorities such as health, environment, national security, education, and criminal justice and others.
Science & Society focuses on strengthening public understanding and engagement with science, including the relationship between science and society. This includes but is not limited to science communication, science journalism, public engagement, citizen scientist and more.
Short Talk 187: Biodigital Today and Tomorrow
Short Talk 193: Developing a vision for the future of health research in Canada: recommendations from HealthCareCAN members across Canada
Short Talk 224: An interdisciplinary approach to science communication: Towards more inclusive and contextual communication practises
Short Talk 240: Autism in Work Teams: The Role of Organizations, Leaders, and Team Members in Neurodiverse Teamwork
Short Talk 252: Societal impacts of quantum technologies: a social dialogue in the heart of Sherbrooke’s innovation zone
Short Talk 318: The future of personalized medicine: Developing a computer-based simulator of human life to predict and develop cell therapies.
Short Talk 187: Biodigital Today and Tomorrow
Theme: Science and Policy
Speaker: Pierre-Olivier Desmarchais
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The biodigital convergence could change the way goods are designed, manufactured, and traded, revolutionize healthcare and agriculture, and modify the environment. This short talk presentation will cover possible key pillars of the biodigital era and identify cross-cutting policy implications that may emerge across different policy areas.
La convergence bionumérique pourrait changer la façon dont les biens sont conçus, fabriqués et commercialisés, révolutionner les soins de santé et l’agriculture ainsi que modifier l’environnement. Cette courte présentation portera sur les éventuels piliers de l’ère bionumérique et identifiera les implications politiques transversales qui pourraient émerger à travers différents domaines politiques.
Short Talk 193: Developing a vision for the future of health research in Canada: recommendations from HealthCareCAN members across Canada
Theme: Science and Policy
Speakers: Dr. Allison B. Sekuler, Dr. Michael Czubryt
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Drawing insights from HealthCareCAN members nationwide, this presentation presents recommendations for shaping the future of health research in Canada. With a focus on developing a visionary approach, this research highlights key strategies to guide the Canada’s healthcare research landscape, fostering innovation and improving health outcomes for all Canadians.
Short Talk 224: An interdisciplinary approach to science communication: Towards more inclusive and contextual communication practises
Theme: Science and Society
Speaker: Jenny Kliever
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In this presentation, I will draw on ongoing research in communication theory, science communication, and different ways of knowing, and discuss a critical examination of science communication practises. My interdisciplinary approach challenges dominant understandings of science and aims for more informed science communication that centres context, authenticity, and inclusivity.
Short Talk 240: Autism in Work Teams: The Role of Organizations, Leaders, and Team Members in Neurodiverse Teamwork
Theme: Science and Society
Speaker: Erika Lieu
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Neurodiverse teams (autistic and no-autistic members) will be more commonplace in STEM disciplines as the autistic population grows. Yet, interventions to improve employment outcomes target individuals while ignoring the broader context (e.g., organization, leaders, and team members). This scoping review thus integrates and summarizes the disparate disciplines of medicine, psychology, education, and organizational behaviour to identify a research agenda for effective neurodiverse teamwork.
Short Talk 252: Societal impacts of quantum technologies: a social dialogue in the heart of Sherbrooke’s innovation zone
Theme: Science and Society
Speaker: Isabelle Lacroix
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The Québec government has launched the Sherbrooke Innovation Zone (IZ) on quantum science in February 2022. Quantum technology currently has few practical applications, the social, ethical, legal and environmental parameters have yet to be developed and can play an important role in guiding research for Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI).
Short Talk 318: The future of personalized medicine: Developing a computer-based simulator of human life to predict and develop cell therapies.
Theme: Innovation & Economic Development
Speaker: Dr. Nika Shakiba
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Could a virtual human help solve today’s most pressing medical challenges? Co-led by Dr. Nika Shakiba, the international Virtual Human Development Consortium is developing a computer-based simulator of human development. This technology could revolutionize healthcare, improve our understanding of human origins, and help develop therapies for chronic and fatal diseases.
Un être humain virtuel pourrait-il contribuer à résoudre les problèmes médicaux les plus urgents qui se posent à nous aujourd’hui? Sous la direction de Nika Shakiba, Ph. D., le Virtual Human Development Consortium s’efforce de mettre au point un simulateur informatique du développement humain. Cette technologie pourrait révolutionner les soins de santé, améliorer notre compréhension de l’origine humaine et contribuer au développement de nouvelles thérapies pour les maladies chroniques et mortelles.
Short Talk 471: Canada and South Africa’s strategic science diplomacy partnership, making science diplomacy real beyond the buzz words
Short Talk 479: Global science relationships in times of conflict: What can be learned from NRCan’s Canada-Ukraine Science Partnership?
Short Talk 513: How RMP@SFU is fostering the next generation of science policy experts
Short Talk 522: Upskilling and reskilling talent to address the labour shortage in Canada’s biotech sector
Short Talk 609: Moving water quality assessment for contaminants of emerging concern to the 21st century: monitoring endocrine disrupting chemicals with in vitro bioassays
Short Talk 653: Options for managing wood bison health in Canada: considering rightsholder and stakeholder values in policy formulation.
Short Talk 471: Canada and South Africa’s strategic science diplomacy partnership, making science diplomacy real beyond the buzz words
Theme: Science International Affairs and Security
Speaker: Daan du Toit
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Three decades ago, Canada played a crucial role in supporting the development of democratic South Africa’s National System of Innovation. Today, building on this foundation, the countries have a vibrant science diplomacy partnership, focused on joining forces to response to shared societal challenges such as climate change and pandemic disease.
Short Talk 479: Global science relationships in times of conflict: What can be learned from NRCan’s Canada-Ukraine Science Partnership?
Theme: Science International Affairs and Security
Speaker: Dr. Ranjana Sharma
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In response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Natural Resources Canada will welcome approximately 20 Ukraine-based scientific personnel into departmental labs and facilities through temporary employment. This short talk will explore opportunities and challenges with supporting scientists and science capacity in conflict zones and broader implications for science diplomacy.
Short Talk 513: How RMP@SFU is fostering the next generation of science policy experts
Theme: Next Generation
Speakers: Alison Moore, Lupin Battersby
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To foster the next generation of science policy experts we must train scientist to communicate with policy audiences. To do this we run a research-to-policy communication skills summer institute for graduate students and post-doctoral fellows. Here we share an overview of the program including lessons learned and tools for creating your own RMP.
Short Talk 522: Upskilling and reskilling talent to address the labour shortage in Canada’s biotech sector
Theme: Next Generation
Speaker: Rob Henderson
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Demand for talent in all sectors of Canada’s biotechnology sector will far exceed the supply of available brainpower by as soon as 2024. And if that happens, progress will slow, growth will stall. By 2029, 65,000 additional workers will be needed. To mitigate the impending talent shortage, employers and policy makers need to find ways to upskill and reskill people from other readily available talent pools.
Short Talk 609: Moving water quality assessment for contaminants of emerging concern to the 21st century: monitoring endocrine disrupting chemicals with in vitro bioassays
Theme: Grand Challenges
Speaker: Julie Robitaille
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Water quality assessment is confronted to a growing number of contaminants such as endocrine disrupting chemicals. There is need to move from monitoring approach using single-chemical analysis to methods that integrate better mixtures. One such method is in vitro bioassays for which the interest is growing in Canada and internationally.
L’évaluation de la qualité de l’eau est confrontée à un nombre grandissant de contaminants comme les perturbateurs endocriniens. Il est nécessaire de passer d’une approche de suivi analysant un produit à la fois à une analysant des mélanges. Les bioessais in vitro représentent une de ces méthodes pour laquelle l’intérêt est grandissant au Canada et à l’international.
Short Talk 653: Options for managing wood bison health in Canada: considering rightsholder and stakeholder values in policy formulation.
Theme: Grand Challenges
Speaker: Dr. David Hall
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Our study addresses socioeconomic issues of options for bison health management in Canada, including stated values referencing the environment. Soliciting and engaging with a wide range of rights and stakeholders, especially with our Indigenous partners, acknowledges that alternative viewpoints may exist while not having to reach consensus on those viewpoints.
Notre étude aborde les questions socioéconomiques des options de gestion de la santé des bisons au Canada, y compris les valeurs déclarées en référence à l’environnement. Le fait de solliciter et de mobiliser un large éventail de droits et d’intervenants, en particulier avec nos partenaires autochtones, reconnaît que d’autres points de vue peuvent exister sans avoir à parvenir à un consensus sur ces points de vue.