Skip Header Navigation

Next Great Innovator > Blog

Blog

« The inaugural Innovation Mini Challenge Champs | Main | Extension for team registration! »

Registration is closed, on to the Proposals!

Team registration has closed for another year. We’re really happy with the registrations this year. We’ve had a strong showing from schools who have participated in the past like Ryerson (the 2008 and 2009 champs!) Schulich, University of Waterloo, UBC and Rotman. We’ve also had great uptake from some new schools this year. We’d like to welcome all the teams from Simon Fraser (who fielded the team that won our first ever Innovation Mini Challenge), Ivey at University of Western Ontario, Carleton, Royal Roads University, McMaster, and OCAD. We’re really looking forward to a diversity of approaches and thinking driving some great Innovations.

So far my favorite team name is a tie between “Black Swan” and “Tesla’s Revenge”. Both are great references to the history and theory of Innovation and worth looking up.

Now it’s onto really digging in on your ideas and innovations and forging them into a winning proposal. I’ll start blogging about approaches and tactics over the next few weeks. We have updated the Innovation Tool Box with some links to sources to get you thinking about the workplace/workforce of the future. We’ve also selected some new SlideShare presentations to give you some angles to think about. Finally, the secure idea share feature is running as part of your team profile. You can enter the kernel of your idea under the Share my Innovation option, and create a list of mentors/advisors to send the idea too. They’ll receive an invitation to log in, rate your idea and leave comments. You may have other ways to collaborate, but if you don’t we’ve added this for you to try.

Thanks for registering, welcome to the Innovator and happy Innovating!

Posted by Tim on November 2, 2009 11:35 AM

Post a comment






Submitted comments must relate to the RBC Next Great Innovator Challenge. All comments will be reviewed and only approved comments will be posted. HTML is not allowed. Comments that include personal attacks on RBC or RBC Employees or other participants in this forum, make obviously false or unsubstantiated allegations, or include vulgar or libelous language, will not be approved. Posted comments are the views of the individual author and not of Royal Bank of Canada. By submitting a comment, you agree to be bound by the Terms of the Innovator Blog.