Innovation, Equity & The Future of Prosperity
Reconciling innovation, equity, and prosperity
Innovation has frequently posed a threat to equality, particularly in winner-take-all societies that lack safety nets and guardrails. The engineers and social scientists in the IEP program are trying to understand and develop innovations that ameliorate rather than intensify inequality in advanced industrial countries. They’re particularly interested in artificial intelligence, care and housing – three interdependent activities that loom increasingly large in the twenty-first century.
IMPACT CLUSTERS
The Innovation, Equity & the Future of Prosperity program is part of the following CIFAR Impact Clusters: Building Thriving Societies and Exploring Emerging Technologies. CIFAR’s research programs are organized into 5 distinct Impact Clusters that address significant global issues and are committed to fostering an environment in which breakthroughs emerge.
RESEARCH AND SOCIETAL IMPACT HIGHLIGHTS
Future of Home
Co-directors Andrew Schrank and Caitlin Zaloom are trying to understand the Future of Home in a world of rapid technological and cultural change, in part through an empirical study of the relationship between household automation and the gendered division of labour and in part through a broader dialogue with the adjacent literature on the Future of Work.
Shaping the future of innovation
Program Fellow Dan Breznitz (University of Toronto) served as the Clifford Clarke Economist of the Government of Canada and advised on a number of files, among them the creation of the Canada Innovation Corporation, announced and funded in Budget 2022. This is the first effort to create an independent experimental learning public agency at the federal level.
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2019, 2026
Partners
The British Academy
Interdisciplinary Collaboration
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Fellows & Advisors
Program Directors
Andrew Schrank
Program Co-Director
Caitlin Zaloom
Incoming Co-Director
Fellows
Yochai Benkler
Fellow
Christof Brandtner
Fellow
International Scientific Advisory Committee
CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar 2023-2025
Dan Breznitz
Fellow
Jane Gingrich
Fellow
Ray Gosine
Associate Fellow
Neil Lee
Fellow
Karen Levy
Fellow
Kenneth Lipartito
Fellow
Goldie Nejat
Fellow
Olav Sorenson
Fellow
Adia Harvey Wingfield
Fellow
Amos Zehavi
Fellow
Advisors
Elizabeth Croft
Advisory Committee Chair
Maryann Feldman
Advisor
Susan Helper
Advisor
National Bureau of Economic Research
CIFAR Global Scholars
Boróka Bó
CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar 2025-2027
Serena Booth
CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar 2025-2027
Christof Brandtner
Fellow
International Scientific Advisory Committee
CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar 2023-2025
Daniel Aldana Cohen
CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars 2021-2023
Ameet Morjaria
CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars 2021-2023
Northwestern University
Khalil Ramadi
CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar 2023-2025
Nicole Wu
CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar 2023-2025
David Y. Yang
CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars 2021-2023
Baobao Zhang
CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars 2021-2023
Syracuse University
Simone Zhang
CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar 2025-2027
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