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Economic Development Minister Ranj Pillai
Public asked about future of innovation
Yukoners have until Wednesday to contribute their ideas and experiences to help inform how the territorial government should invest money to stimulate and diversify the technology and knowledge economy.
Yukoners have until Wednesday to contribute their ideas and experiences to help inform how the territorial government should invest money to stimulate and diversify the technology and knowledge economy.
The results of this engagement will help to determine the future of innovation in the Yukon and how the government can support and drive innovation.
The public’s input is essential to help inform what innovation looks like in the Yukon’s tech and knowledge sector, the government said Oct. 15, as well as the perceived barriers and challenges businesses and entrepreneurs are facing.
Yukoners can contribute their perspectives by filling out a survey on engageyukon.ca until Wednesday.
The insights gathered will be compiled into a What We Heard document and contribute to the development of a five-year innovation strategy.
“Yukon’s growing technology and innovation sector continues to play an important role in diversifying our economy,” said Economic Development Minister Ranj Pillai.
“This engagement is a significant step in identifying the priorities of Yukoners and the obstacles they face so that we can strategically support innovation, entrepreneurship and our local knowledge economy.”
Innovation is the creation of new businesses and social models, or improving processes and service delivery in established businesses and industries.
Topics for engagement include, but are not limited to:
• global technology trends and its application in the Yukon;
• talent development and attraction needs;
• venture capital and growth of angel investors; and
• programs and services that the Yukon should focus on in the next five years.
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Comments (3)
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SheepChaser on Oct 28, 2020 at 7:41 pm
How can we have a technology sector without fibre optic internet that Northwestel refuses to provide even to companies right on the fibre line? Not because they can’t, just because they won’t. You can’t have a tech sector without the ability to move terabytes of information. Keep dreaming, Yukoners. Until the monopolies up here are broken, this territory will continue to be economically depressed.
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Juniper Jackson on Oct 28, 2020 at 1:01 pm
I think all the decisions have already been made. But, nice of the government to throw us a consultation bone.
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Wilf Carter on Oct 27, 2020 at 1:34 pm
This is a good idea from the perspective of our business community but we need to understand what our needs are from fact based survey? Governments history in this area has not done a good job of doing this work. Give it to the University to do this work with money to back it up so they can employ people who have the in line skills to do this work. The average administration in government does not have the skills to do this work and no one in Ec Dev has the background for this work.