Research
Research projects & programs
Programs and Projects
Inclusive Innovation Research and Engagement Program
Leadership of the Inclusive Innovation Research Cluster at the ISSP
Co-leadership of the Telfer Globalization, Governance, and Sustainability Area of Strategic Impact
Inclusive Innovation Hub
National Indigenous Women’s Entrepreneurship Ecosystem
(NIWEE)
SMART
2021-2027
CIHR
Implementing Smart Cities Interventions to Build Healthy Cities
New Social Contract
2022-2024
SSHRC
Rethinking the Social Contract for Science Policy (PI)
$170,000
Past Projects
Living Lab 2020-2021
- SSHRC Knowledge Synthesis Grant (CO-I)
- Living Within the Earth’s Carrying Capacity: What are the knowledge gaps for evaluating the social impacts and effectiveness of “Living Labs” focused on environmental and agricultural sustainability?
- $50,000
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
- 2017 – 2017
- Options for S&T collaboration metrics (PI)
- $11,500
Inclusive Entrepreneurship
- Project 1: 2017 – 2017
- Kauffman Foundation
- Measuring Women’s Leadership in Venture Capital Fund Portfolios (Co-PI)
- $91,800
- Project 2: 2016 – 2016
- Kauffman Foundation
- Measuring Women’s Leadership in Venture Capital Fund Portfolios (Co-I)
- $27,000
Knowledge translation
- 2012 – 2015
- BioFuelNet Canada
- Positioning biofuel R&D for enhanced use in policy, regulation, practice and commercialization (with Prof. Pries, U Guelph) (Co-PI)
- $75,000
Data and Analytics Research and Engagement Program
4POINT0
2018-2023
SSHRC Partnership Grant
Partnership for the Organization of Innovation and New Technologies
(Co-I)
$2,499,723
FCI Canada
2021-2023
Protein Industries Supercluster (Co-I)
$2,700,000
2020-2021
Mitacs
Food Convergence and Integrity Canada; partners: PIC Supercluster, Bivizio, CTAQ (PI)
$240,000
2020-2021
Mitacs
Small and Medium Enterprises in a Covid19 context: Ecosystem business intelligence for increased resilience; partner: Bivizio (PI)
$60,000
Past Projects
Assessing the Readiness of Canadian Small- and Medium- Sized Enterprises to Leverage Big Data Analytics
- 2017 – 2021
- SSHRC Insight Grant (CO-I)
- $119,000
Big Data Analytics: Accelerating Innovation and Value Creation
- 2017 – 2018
- SSHRC – Synthesis Grant (CO-I)
- $25,000
New innovation indicators – integrating survey methodology with web-based data analytics
- 2016 – 2018
- SSHRC Insight Development Grant (PI)
- $67,050
Publications
Beaudoin, C., Joncoux, S., Jasmin, J. F., Berberi, A., McPhee, C., Schillo, R. S., Nguyen, V. M., 2022. “A research agenda for evaluating living labs as an open innovation model for environmental and agricultural sustainability”, Environmental Challenges, Volume 7.
Ebrahimi, H.P., Schillo, R.S., Bronson, K., 2021. “Systematic Stakeholder Inclusion in Digital Agriculture: A Framework and Application to Canada”, Sustainability, 3(12): 6879
Schillo, R.S. and Ebrahimi, H.P., 2021, “Gender Dimensions of Digitalisation: A comparison of New Technology-based Firms across Fields”, Technology Analysis and Strategic Management.
Alhassan, E., Schillo, R.S., Lemay, M.A. , Pries, F., 2019, “Research Outputs as Vehicles of Knowledge Exchange in a Quintuple Helix Context: The Case of Biofuels Research Outputs “, Journal of the Knowledge Economy, 10 (3), 958–973.
Schillo, R.S. & Kinder, J.S., 2017, “Delivering on societal impacts through open innovation: a framework for government laboratories“, Journal of Technology Transfer, 42(4): 977-996.
Aidis, R., Schillo, R.S., 2017. “Gender, Leadership and Venture Capital: Measuring women’s leadership in VC firm portfolios“, International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship, 9(2):110-135, 5.
Schillo, R.S., Robinson, R.M., 2017, “Inclusive Innovation in Developed Countries: The Who, What, Why, and How “, Technology Innovation Management Review, 7(7):34-46.
Schillo, R.S., Isabelle, D., Shakiba, A., 2017, “Linking Advanced Biofuel Policies with Stakeholder Interests – A method building on Quality Function Deployment“, Energy Policy, 100(January):126-137.
Schillo, R.S., Persaud, A., Jin, M., 2016, “Entrepreneurial readiness in the context of national institutional environments“, Small Business Economics, 46(4):619-637.
Contact
If you are interested in having Prof. Sandra Schillo speak at an event, please email schillo@telfer.uottawa.ca.
Presentations
| Year | Topic |
| Schillo, R.S., 2019 | “Agricultural Innovation Impact”, Innovations Conference, Poultry Industry Council, London, Ontario, November 21st |
| Schillo, R.S., 2018 | “Linking Web-Scraped Data with Statistics Canada Datasets“, Discussion Session: New Data Opportunities for Linked Environment-Economy-Innovation Research, Economics and Environmental Policy Research Network Research Symposium, Ottawa, ON, March |
| Schillo, R.S., 2017 | “Inclusive Innovation“, Invited presentation at the Africa-Europe Dialogue Symposium on Innovation for Sustainable Development, Pretoria, South Africa, December |
| Schillo, R.S., 2016 | “Open Science“, Keynote delivered at Agricultural Institute of Canada conference on Disseminating Agricultural Research, Ottawa, ON, April |
| Schillo, R.S., 2016 | Invited participant in Treasury Board workshop on open science, Ottawa, ON |
| Schillo, R.S., 2016 | Presentation delivered at Statistics Canada workshop |
| Schillo, R.S., 2015 | Presentation delivered to Industry Canada (with Prof. Persaud) |