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Initiative

Roadmap to Regional Innovation

A practical, systems-based guide designed to connect a fragmented innovation ecosystem, reduce operational silos, and translate regional innovation ambitions into actionable steps.

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Status
Completed
Timeline
2023
Lead Partner
Yukonstruct Society
Part Of
Lighting Up the North

The Challenge

Fragmented Ecosystem

Yukon's innovation ecosystem has often been shaped by operational silos, where diverse groups and sectors work in isolation. This fragmentation reduces shared progress, weakens learning loops, and makes it harder to pool resources toward common objectives.

The Response

An Integrated Approach

The Roadmap initiative was developed to create a more integrated and collaborative approach to innovation by:

  • Connecting disparate ecosystem elements into a more coherent landscape
  • Encouraging collaboration and collective action across sectors and communities
  • Pooling resources and facilitating knowledge sharing
  • Harnessing the unique strengths of community actors to support unified efforts

A key design constraint was practicality: the goal was to translate strategic visions into concrete steps that can realistically be implemented.

What Was Delivered

Outputs

  • A guide and framework that articulates system dynamics and collaboration needs
  • A shared narrative and structure for ecosystem alignment
  • Action-oriented scaffolding that partners can adapt to real-world constraints and opportunities

Our Role

Systems Thinking and Synthesis

Sustainable Impact Foundation contributed systems thinking, synthesis, and knowledge mobilization to help ensure the framework supports real adoption rather than remaining aspirational.

Related Focus Areas

Connected themes

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Knowledge Commons

Translating insight into ecosystem-wide adoption.

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Relational Infrastructure

Collaborative action across sectors.

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Interested in this work?

If you are working in regional innovation, ecosystem coordination, or systems-based strategy, we welcome conversations about shared learning.

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