Strategic Research Goal: Promote Partnerships and Collaboration

Lang will be recognized globally as a Canadian business school research partner of choice for industry, government, and not-for-profit organizations and leverage strong internal and external academic collaborations to enhance our creation and mobilization of academic research knowledge.

SSHRC Partnership Engage Grants provide short-term support for partnered research activities that inform decision making for public, private or not-for-profit organizations.

Dr. Statia Elliot: Rebuilding Trust in Travel: Canadian Residents as Tourism Advocates (1 year, $24,741)

Working with Destination Canada, the research team seeks to address the devastation caused by the Covid-19 pandemic to Canada’s tourism sector, a key driver of Canada’s economy, and directly support a pathway to recovery.

Mitacs is working to build a stronger, more inclusive innovation ecosystem through student internships, partnerships, and networks. Their programs aim to foster and support partnerships between academic institutions, industry, and social organizations. In 2021-2022, a significant number of faculty were successful in garnering Mitacs support with industry projects including:

Mitacs supported projects from the International Institute for Sport Business and Leadership:

1. Canada Basketball - Assessment and Implementation of a new Club licensing and accreditation system $15,000 Dr. Dan Wigfield (post-doc)

2. Sport Nova Scotia - Evaluating the Nova Scotia True Sport Athlete Ambassador Program, $15,000 Dr. Lianne Foti

3. Canadian Paralympic Committee - Building a leading Paralympic Organization Strategic Renewal at the Canadian Paralympic Committee, $30,000 Dr. Ann Pegoraro

4. Canadian Paralympic Committee - The Canadian Paralympic Committee – Embedding Data Analytics into the business operations, $45,000 Dr. Ann Pegoraro

5. Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport - Advances to business and sport management professionals’ ethical decision making: A practical approach in collaboration with CCES, $60,000 Dr. Kathleen Rodenburg

Other Mitacs supported projects included:

1. Innovation Guelph - Why businesses fail, Dr. Felix Arndt $15,000

2. IndigenousTech.ai Corporation - University of Guelph and IndigenousTech.ai Mentorship Program for Indigenous Youth, Dr. Sara Wick $15,000

3. Danby Appliances - Innovation Management: Decision mapping in the production and management of Danby Appliances, Dr. Kalinga Jagoda $15,000

4. Kinross Gold - Towards an understanding of women’s experiences on well-being in mining communities, Dr. Daniela Senkl - $30,000

5. Social Innovation Canada - Community Wealth Building in Ontario’s Mid-Sized Cities, Dr. Audrey Jamal - $30,000

6. SOWCool - Exploring Generation Alpha as Environmental Stewards, Dr. Sean Lyons - $15,000

7. Upper Canada Growers - Exploring the drivers of innovation diffusion for virus-resistant grape vines, Bruce McAdams$30,000