The Innovation Lab
Many innovators go through a frustrating process of trying to develop and implement new ideas. FSC’s innovation lab makes it easier to innovate.
The Lab is home to bold, future-focused ideas and the people behind them. We work with partners on solutions at their early-stages, when uncertainty is great and support is hard to find.
That means helping organizations test and adopt breakthrough solutions for the future of work by fostering a low-takes environment that encourages teams to be bold, take risks and experiment.
We welcome new approaches that aim to make major contributions to skills development.
Our guiding principles:
The Lab experiments with business strategies and scales them based on results.
The Lab favours an appetite for learning and experimentation over the ability to deliver immediate outcomes.
Our focus is to address future problems, not simply present ones.
The Lab promotes increased innovation, sharing and collective learning.
The advancement of ideas is based on evidence and data.
Innovation is driven by diversity and opportunities for all.
Testing new ideas
Several of our partners are exploring innovative, future-looking solutions. Our focus is less on immediate outcomes and more on experimentation and testing that generates learning and new ways forward. One of the lab’s key initiatives is the Accelerator program, which provides additional funding and support for projects in a low-stakes, nurturing environment so partners can test new or unconventional approaches.
For instance, pointA identified a need to help small- and medium-sized businesses to adapt to hybrid work environments and began developing a new product. By supporting these and other organizations in pursuing new ideas, FSC is helping to meet the challenges of an evolving labour market.
Learn more about the Lab:
Why create an Innovation Lab and Accelerator program?
How we work with partners
Lessons from the Accelerator
Helping a sustainable commuting organization turn ideas into reality
Second cohort of the Accelerator leads to greater confidence and expansion of skills
Partners engaging with the Innovation Lab
CLIMB: Continuous Learning for Individuals’ Mid-career and Beyond
ELITE program for Black youth
Free education for an inclusive economy
Remote work strategies for small businesses
Shock-proofing skills for the not-for-profit sector
New Brunswick digital career exploration
Atlantic Autism Supports and Employment Network (AASEN)
Newfoundland newcomer employment resilience network
Construction with a purpose
Language learning for young newcomers
Workforce 2030: Rapid upskilling for green building
Aiming higher: Micro-credential training in aviation and aerospace
Empowering young moms in Northern Manitoba
Services to social impact
Micro but mighty: micro-credentials for a recovering hospitality industry
STEM skills and an innovation mindset for youth
SOAR
Craft
The future of food through agricultural technology
On the frontlines of crisis training program
Futureproofing the PSW workforce
