Innovation, Energy and Mines
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Manitoba Innovation Framework
Six-Point Action Plan
Government’s role in enhancing and expanding the capacity for innovation in Manitoba is to focus activities and stimulate an environment that encourages and sustains innovation. This requires individuals, institutions, businesses, regulations, policies and processes that support the innovation system. In working effectively together, these key components create an environment favourable for innovation. The challenges identified in the review of Manitoba's innovation system create the need for a specific, six-point action plan. This plan will enable the government to effectively meet provincial targets. ACTION # 1: Develop a skilled workforce that meets the needs of an ever-changing economySkilled workforces lie at the heart of a region's capacity to innovate. In the knowledge economy, a skilled workforce is not only a dynamic driver of economic growth. It is also the avenue that creates individual economic opportunity for citizens from all walks of life. The quality and level of skills in a workforce largely determine a region’s ability to create and spread new knowledge throughout the economy. Investment in skilled labour must start early as research shows significant links between early childhood development and life-long health and learning. The years from pregnancy through school entrance are enormously important. The provincial government recognizes the value of investing in early development and has provided $40 million in this area since April 2000. Priority areas include:
Investment in education and training is essential to ensure businesses and institutions have the skilled workers they need to be productive and for these workers to develop the skills they need to adapt and prosper in the rapidly changing, knowledge-based economy. In the future, economic success or failure may well depend on the ability of regions to capitalize and adapt the skills of their workforces in line with areas of emerging economic priorities.
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