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Moving from Innovation versus Equity to Innovation and Equity: Places and Practices

Online
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April 14, 2026 | 10:30AM - 12:45PM
Innovation Policy Lab, Innovation, Economy & prosperity
Can innovation be made more equitable?
 
This webinar sheds light on this question by engaging with the fellows of CIFAR’s IEP program around their recently published Industrial and Corporate Change special issue situating equity at the heart of a positive innovation-centered research agenda. During their discussions the authors will expound on their new approach that focuses on practices and places as the loci of inquiry. In this exciting webinar, they will discuss a range of issues and relate these to detailed case studies of industries, countries, social groups and localities.
 
Agenda
 
10:30-10:35 – Welcome and land acknowledgement
 
10:35-10:55 – Setting the stage
 
Practices Papers
 
10:55-11:15 – Workplace governance and labor perceptions of technological risks and benefits
 
11:15-11:35 – An equity-focused research agenda for workplace surveillance
 
Places Papers
 
11:35-11:55 – Prosperous places: processes, policies, and practices
 
11:55-12:15 – Balancing spatial equalities by place-based inclusive innovation policy: the cases of Israel and Korea
 
12:15-12:35 – From Innovation versus Equity to Innovation and Equity
 
12:35-12:45 – Final thoughts and closing remarks
This event is sponsored by the Innovation Policy Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy and the Innovation, Equity and Prosperity Program at CIFAR.
Innovation Policy Lab, Innovation, Economy & prosperity

Speakers

Christof Brandtner

emlyon, France

Dan Breznitz

University of Toronto, Canada

Maryann Feldman

Arizona State University, USA

Jane Gingrich

University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Jungho Kim

Newcastle University, United Kingdom

Kenneth Lipartito

Florida International University, USA

Woody Powell

Stanford University, USA

Olav Sorenson

University of California Los Angeles, USA

Nicole Wu

University of Toronto, Canada

Amos Zehavi

Tel Aviv University, Israel and Innovation Policy Lab, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto, Canada

Baobao Zhang

Syracuse University, USA