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OFFICE OF THE VICE-PRESIDENT, ACADEMIC
MEMORANDUM
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Senate
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D. Gagan, Chair
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Senate Committee on Academic Pla
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Institute for Business and Innovation Studies (IBIS)
Date: ?
April 11, 1996
Action undertaken at the meeting of the Senate Committee on Academic Planning on
April 3, 1996 gives rise to the following motion:
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Motion:
"That Senate approve and recommend to the Board of Governors
as set forth in S.96 -
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the establishment of an Institute for Business
and Innovation Studies (IBIS)."
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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
MEMORANDUM
OFFICE OF VICE-PRESIDENT, RESEARCH
TO: David Gagan ?
FROM: Bruce P. Clayman
Vice-President, Academic
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Vice-President, Research
RE: Institute for Business and
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DATE. February 13,1996
Innovation Studies (IBIS)
I am attaching a proposal from Ron Marteniuk and Stan Shapiro for the establishment
of an Institute for Business and Innovation Studies (IBIS). This proposal explicitly
states that the Institute will be self-sufficient and cause no financial burden to the
University and will require no start-up or continuing funds to operate.
If you agree with the proposal, please sign the attached memorandum and return it to
my office for processing.
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OFFICE OF VICE-PRESIDENT, RESEARCH
TO: Alison Watt ?
FROM: Bruce P. Clayman
Secretary, Senate Committee ?
Vice-President, Research
on Academic Planning (SCAP)
RE Institute for Business and
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DATE February 13,1996
Innovation Studies (IBIS)
I attach a proposal from Dr. Ron Marteniuk and Dr. Stan Shapiro for the establishment
of an Institute for Business and Innovation Studies as a Schedule B Centre (centres that
have a university-wide mandate).
The Governing Committee for Centres and Institutes recommends that the Centre be
granted approval by SCM' at its next meeting. Once approved by SCM', the proposal
is to be forwarded to the next meeting of Senate, followed by submission to the Board of
Governors.
Bruce P. Clayman '
Vice-President, Research
David Gagan
Vice-President, AcadeLic
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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
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FACULTY OF APPLIED SCIENCES
DATE:
January 11,
1995
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Bruce Clayman, Vice-President Research
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Ron Marteniuk, Dean, Faculty of Applied Sciences
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Institute for Business and Innovation Studies (IBIS)
Bruce, if the attached proposal is approved by Stan Shapiro, I recommend that you approve IBIS
as an Institute of SFU.
Thank you for your consideration of this matter.
Ron Martemuk, Dean
Faculty of Applied Sciences
Enclosure
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Memorandum
To: Dr. Bruce Clayman
From: Ron Marteniuk and Stan Shapiro
Date: 14 December 1995
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Institute for Business and Innovation Studies
We attach a proposal for the establishment under Policy R 40.01 of the Institute for Business and
Innovation Studies. The proposal has been considered by a steering committee consisting of the
following faculty and staff who unanimously recommend approval of this new Institute:
R. Marteniuk
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J. Shapiro
D. Shapiro
C. Smart
C. Murray
R. K. Smith
M. S. Lipsett
If approved, the Institute will not be a drain on SFU's financial resources. It is designed instead to
be financially self-sustaining and to attract significant resources to the university. It will provide an
institutional focus for existing activities of the staff who would become involved. The proposed
institute will, moreover, serve as an enabling mechanism to attract new funding for
multi-disciplinary and multi-sectoral collaborative projects. The particular focus of the institute
will be on the management of technology and innovation, and on business and innovation studies.
The proposed institute would harvest some of SFU's intellectual investment in planning for a
Centre of Networks of Excellence on Trade, Innovation, Competitiveness and Sustainability.
The particular reason for putting this proposal forward at this time is to be able to undertake new
collaborative research, technical services, and training programs which SFU has been asked to
formulate.
If you agree with this recommendation, please forward it to the Governing Committee for Centres
for review and recommendation onward to the President and the Board for approval.
Should you need further information or explanation, please let us know.
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Simon Fraser University Charter
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Institute for Business and Innovation Studies
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Purpose
Vision
to build a pre-eminent centre for business and innovation studies and services at SFU that
attracts national and international participants, employs SFU graduate students, links with
collaborative programs in other academic institutions, and is financially self-sufficient as a
result of contracts from local, national, and international clients.
General strategy
to capitalise on current strengths and opportunities at SFU—in such fields as management of
technology and innovation; resource and environmental management; and science, technology
and innovation metrics—in the achievement of the vision.
Timing and the niche
Global trends have made business and innovation studies one of today's most crucial topics,
and one that is likely to become increasing important into the next century. Major research
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centres are being created in other countries to provide national programs of study of
innovation systems, their regional manifestations and their effectiveness. Training in
technology and innovation management is seen as an urgent issue in many countries, in Latin
America, for example.
The Institute will focus on the role of technological innovation in the emergence of small and
medium sized enterprises in the face of economic, social, technological, global and
environmental transformations.
II.
Organisational Structure
The Institute will be a Schedule B Centre as described in R40.01. Institute activities will be
conducted in compliance with University policies.
Administrative Officer
The Administrative Officer will be the Vice-President, Research.
Director
The Director of the Institute will be an employee of Simon Fraser University as stipulated in
R40.01. The Director will be selected on the joint recommendation of the Dean of the Faculty
of Applied Sciences and the Dean of the Faculty of Business Administration to the
Administrative Officer.
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the Dean of the Faculty of Business Administration he may designate a Managing Director to
assist in carrying out the duties of Institute Director, but this is not to be construed as
transferring fiduciary responsibilities under R40.01.
Together with the Managing Director, if any, the Institute Director will, in collaboration with
the Dean of the Faculty of Business Administration, develop an operational business plan that
sets out performance goals and benchmarks on an annual basis.
An Advisory Board will be formed to assist in this process, to provide independent advice to
the management of the Institute, and to make recommendations to the Administrative Officer
on strategic directions for the Institute. The Advisory Board will be represent and provide
input from a cross section of academic, government, and non-governmental organisations, as
well as business leaders, labour; and other national and international interests.
Members of the Institute
Founding members of the Institute.are as follows:
Faculty
Ron Marteniuk
Stan Shapiro
Richard Lipsey
Dan Shapiro
Carolyne Smart
Catherine Murray
Richard Smith
Morley Lipsett(adjunct)
Senior Staff
Daryl Zarn
John Fraser (UIILO)
J. Adam Holbrook
External Faculty
Hans Schuetze (UBC)
Paul Guild (Waterloo)
John de la Mothe (U of Ottawa)
William Leiss (Queens)
Karen Minden (Asia Pacific Foundation)
International
James Mullin (Ottawa)
F. Chaparro (Colciencias)
Luc Soete (Maastricht)
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III. Conditions under which the Institute's name
may
be used
The Institute's name may be used by
any
of its
Members in the course of conducting research
and
associated University business. Formal research
and
program proposals by the Institute to
granting
agencies, joint venture partners, or other funding sources must be signed by the
Institute's Director.
IV.
Procedures for employing Staff and administering Funds
Staff
shall be employed in accordance with University Policy. Funds
and contracts will be
administered in accordance with applicable University Policy.
Submitted to the Vice-President, Research by:
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Bruce Clayman
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Addendum
The purpose
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R40.01.
(a) special purpose of the institute
The special purpose of the Institute for Business and Innovation Studies is to be a pre-eminent
centre for business and innovation studies and services at SFU that attracts national and
international participants, employs SFU graduate students, links with collaborative programs
in other academic institutions, and is financially self-sufficient as a result of contracts from
local, national, and international clients.
(b)
provision for appointment
of a director
The director will be appointed in compliance with Policy R40.01.
(c) applicable schedule
The Institute will be a Schedule B Centre as described in R40.01.
(d) conduct of
Institute activities
The Institute will conduct its activities in accordance with University policies.
(e) internal governing procedure
The governance of the Institute will be in accordance with University policies in general and
Policy R40.01 in particular.
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Ron Marteniuk
Dean of Applied Sciences
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Memorandum
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Dean Ron Marieniuk and Dean Stajjczpiro
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Morley Lipseil and Richard
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14 December 1995
Subject: ?
Business and Innovation Studies
We are attaching, for your review and comments, the requisite documentation for the
establishment, under Policy R 40.01 of a.proposed Institute for Business and Innovation Studies.
This would be a Schedule B entity to reflect the dual sponsorship of the Faculties of Business
Administration and Applied Science, to foster multi-disciplinary and multi-sectoral programs, and
to enable national and international linkages for the institute.
We discussed the concept of a centre for innovation studies as outlined in our presentation and
proposal material dated 24 May and 19 June, respectively, with people from industry, government
and academia. The reception was uniformly positive and constructive. The attached draft
constitution reflects this external consultation, some of which we summarize below.
Jim Mullin
Jim, a former Vice President, IDRC, and currently an international consultant on S&T policy
pointed out the necessity of choosing a name that suggests a strong business orientation rather
than a purely academic one. The interim name of (Centre for Innovation Studies) therefore needed
replacement. We offer the new name,
Institute for Business and Innovation Studies
(IBIS), which
could be preceded by the name of a core corporate sponsor.
Hans Schuette
Hans is at the Centre for Policy Studies in Education, Faculty of Education, University of British
Columbia. His concern was to ensure that he and others at UBC could become affiliated with
IBIS.
Galen Greer
Galen is with the Ministry of Employment and Investment and has been a champion of ours within
the BC beaurocracy. He urged us to establish linkages with financial institutions, and our present
Federal Business Development Bank and Bank of Montreal connections meed this need.
John de la
Mothe
John is an Associate Professor of Science and Government and a Research Director of the
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Program of Research on International Management and Economy (PRIME) at the Faculty of
Administration, University of Ottawa. His report on our proposal is attached.
Appendix A:
Report on the proposed Centre for Innovation Studies'
by: John de la Mothe
General Reaction
The proposal to create a Centre for Innovation Studies (CIS) is an extremely important and timely
one. It is important because you have decided to focus on one of the principal drivers of
socio-economic change - innovation - and in so doing have opened yourselves up to:
giving students a training and an education that is based on complexity, .managing surprise
generating mechanisms, and so on
bringing together faculty, for both teaching and research purposes, in a decidedly
transdisplinary way
• focusing on the processes of competition and adjustment that firms (and other
organisations) actually have to deal with and manage on a daily basis.
All this is extremely attractive. It is timely because no other academic centre has moved
aggressively into this area. SFU is well positioned to occupy this niche area.
Is There A Need For A CIS (IBIS)?
Today, every organisation is undergoing a great transformation. Budgets are being downsized.
Expenditures are being scrutinised. Traditional clients or sponsors are no longer seen as being a
given or to be 'taken for granted'. In the case of clients, this is bringing about (within proactive
organisations at least) something of a 'service boom'. In the case of sponsors, seeking to diversify
funding sources is becoming de rigeur. Products - be they courses or machinery - are being
demanded in such a way that forces providers to be flexible, speedy, responsive, creative, capable
of follow through, etc..
What you have proposed is a centre that works internally and externally. It would work externally
by focusing on problems that are critical to your local industrial base, by carrying out research to
help illuminate solutions to these problems for these local firms, and by offering education/training
that is relevant to the skill requirements of current employees and future employees. It would
work internally by stimulating the traditional university environment into becoming, itself a site
for innovation and re-engineering.
Why SFU?
It seems to me that SFU would make an ideal location for a CIS. You have a business school and
a faculty of applied science that are well known and well regarded nationally. CPROST's
reputation is growing, particularly around public policy. You have particular expertise - that I am
aware of at least and this is by no means meant to be exhaustive - in telecommunications,
economic growth, North American business studies, entrepreneurship, robotics, artificial
intelligence, R&D tax incentives, science and technology indicators, and so on. Moreover,
Vancouver is a natural hub for teaching, research and consulting in international business (viz Asia
Now termed the
Inst iture for Business and Innovation Studies (IBIS)
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and Latin America) and it would presumably lend itself to the acquisition of investments from the
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emerging business community.
Are There Other Centres in Canada?
While there are a number of groups which already offer programs or courses in technology
management, no one has occupied the innovation niche as yet. The most developed efforts are
being undertaken in the Faculty of Management at the University of Quebec in Montreal (CIRST)
and at the Faculty of Administration at the University of Ottawa (PRIME).
CIRST is a large operation which is well known for its work in the energy industries (hydro,
fusion), transportation, and large scale engineering projects. They offer a wide array of courses in
traditional management areas and have a number of well known researchers in the area of science
and technology policy and innovation. It is my impression that consulting work comes in as a
result of the individual efforts of researchers and research assistants. I believe that Catherine
Murray knows this group quite well, so I won't spend much time on them at this moment. I will,
instead, tell you briefly about my own group.
PRIME is a much younger and much smaller group. But its model is much more
integrated. I believe that this approach could be a useful one for SFU. PRIME operates within the
traditional undergraduate (BComm and BAdmin) and graduate (MBA, EMBA and International
MBA) programs, offering courses in science and technology policy, trade policy,
macroeconomics, technology marketing, high technology strategy, and government-business
relations. It also has students from the MSc (Systems Science Program).
It carries out funded research (SSHRC, Industry Canada), and publishes quite extensively
in journals like Technology Management, Technology in Society, The Queen's Quarterly,
Nature, Daedalus, Small Business Economics, Technology Assessment and Strategic
Management, and so on.
It runs a monthly series of thematic public lectures (The PRIME Lectures) which attract
typically about 150 diplomats, entrepreneurs, bureaucrats, politicians, and students from
the Ottawa area. The first lectures - which included the Industry Minister, John Manley,
and the Chief Science Advisor to President George Bush - D. Allan Bromley - are being
published in book form ("Technology, Trade and the New Economy"). The next series will
focus on CEOs on high technology firms such as Newbridge and Alias.
• It is editorially involved in the journals "Optimum: A Journal of Public Sector
Management" and "Science and Public Policy", the newsletter "Outlook on Science
Policy", and the books series "World Guides to Science and Technology" by Cartermill in
London (which has already published "Science and Technology in Canada" and is in the
process of publishing volumes on Japan, China, the USA, Russia, Germany, and Australia)
and the Pinter series on "Science, Technology and the International Political Economy"
(which is just about to publish its first book).
• In the past year it has carried out consulting work for such groups as Industry Canada,
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NATO, the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, the CBC, and IIASA,
among others. However, it has deliberately not made consulting a major focus of its efforts.
It runs the National High Technology Management Case Competition which is now in its
6th year and which annually attracts teams from 15 MBA programs across Canada. This
competition is funded almost entirely by industry.
In short, PRIME has tried to develop an approach to international management (not innovation)
that is highly integrated and that revolves around (i) teaching, (ii) research, (iii) research
dissemination, (iv) community outreach, (v) team building, and (vi) rather high visibility activities.
I see a lot of this in what you have proposed and encourage you. You are a lot more developed
than PRIME was when it started two years ago.
Who Might You Identify For A CIS (IBIS) Advisory Group?
I would imagine that a small group, made up of a mix of academic, private sector and government
representatives (who might also have access to funding) would be attractive. Such individuals
might include:
International Academic
David Mowery - University of California (Berkeley)
Michael Gibbons - Sussex University
Ed Steinmueller - University of Limburg
Richard Nelson - Columbia University
National Academic
A short list of good people could be gleaned from your TICS/NCE proposal but you might be
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wise not to forget Ursula Franklin - University of Toronto.
Private Sector
Alan Taylor - ex-Royal Bank
Peter Nicholson - BCE, ex-Bank of Nova Scotia
David Crane - Toronto Star
Ron McCullough - ex-SPAR., CIAR and PRECARN
Gordon MacNabb, ex-PRECARN
Hugh Wynne Edwards
Government
John Godfried, MP
Alan Nymark, ADM - Industry Canada
Summary
In a nut shell, I would suggest the following:
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that SFU create a Centre for innovation Studies around applied science, business and
CPROST;
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an integrated approach be adopted - bringing together players from a variety of disciplines
to offer transdisiplinary teaching, research and consulting services;
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an aggressive publishing and research dissemination program be undertaken - though
publishing, the local press and media, conferences, symposia, and so on; and
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that you concentrate both on your natural local advantages (Asia, Latin America, natural
resources, telecommunications, Al and remote sensing) and on your comparative
advantages (telecommunications, R&D tax incentives, S&T indicators, economic growth,
entrepreneurship).
Note: John de la Mothe is an Associate Professor of Science and Government and a Research
Director of the Program of Research on International Management and Economy
(PRIME) at the Faculty of Administration, University of Ottawa. He has taught science
and technology policy at New York University, Harvard University and MIT, and has
worked in innovation policy for over a decade, working for such groups as the OECD,
NATO and the Government of Canada. He is the author of numerous articles in journals
ranging from "Nature" to "Daedalus", and is the co-editor or author of a number of such
books "Science, Technology and Free Trade" (1990), "Science and Technology in
Canada" (1993) and, most recently, "Evolutionary Economics and the New International
Political Economy (in press).
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