Resources

There are plenty of useful resources on innovation-driven entrepreneurship from thought leaders in the field. These are our picks.

 

ONSIDE in the News

  • ONSIDE Launches new program with MIT REAP focused on rural communities - MIT REAP- FOCUS Nova Scotia

    Press Release

  • As corporate leaders pledge to embrace purpose beyond profit, are business schools keeping up?

Corporate Knights

https://www.corporateknights.com/education/mba-purpose-over-profit/

  • How Collective Impact Shapes ONSIDE’s Mission

    Entrevestor

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MIT REAP (Regional Entrepreneurship Acceleration Program)

Innovation-Driven Entrepreneurship

  • In 2016, a team from Nova Scotia comprising of the five major stakeholder innovation groups i.e., entrepreneurs, risk capital, corporates, academia and government participated in MIT REAP  along with groups from other parts of the world.

  • What came out of Nova Scotia’s participation in MIT REAP?
    PDF: Looking back. Looking forward: Executive summary
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  • Beyond ‘the next Silicon Valley’: Why many kinds of economic superclusters matter
    Globe & Mail article 2018 – MIT REAP/ Scott Stern (MIT) / Richard Florizone (Dal)
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  • Video: How MIT REAP helps regions accelerate innovation.
    This short video features- along with other people from regions around the world and MIT faculty- Richard Florizon, President and Vice Chancellor, Dalhousie University. Richard was the Champion for Team Nova Scotia.

 
 

COLLECTIVE IMPACT

The Stanford Centre on Philanthropy and civil Society at Stanford University, Tamarack Institute, and the Collective Impact Forum have produced very useful materials that help explain collective impact. Here are some of our favourites.

  • Stanford Social Innovation Review Paper, 2021 Centering Equity in Collective Impact -A decade of applying the collective impact approach to address social problems has taught us that equity is central to the work.

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  • Stanford Social Innovation Review Paper, 2011. This is likely, the earliest record of the term Collective Impact.
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  • Stanford Social Innovation Review Paper, 2012. Understanding the Value of Backbone Organizations in Collective Impact: Part 2

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  • Tamarack Institute Paper, 2012. COLLECTIVE IMPACT 3.0 AN EVOLVING FRAMEWORK FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE
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  • Webinar: Intro to Collective Impact- The Tamarack Institute
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  • Webinar: The future of Collective Impact- Tamarack institute
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  • Video: What is collective impact- The Tamarack Institute

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  • The Collective Impact Forum
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