Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
- Value of invested capital into business start-ups and business expansions
- Number of business start-ups and business expansion arising from innovation activities (with metrics on start-ups owned by specific under-represented groups including Indigenous, African Nova Scotian, women, persons with disabilities, new immigrants)
- Number of jobs created
- Number of innovation activity participants (with metrics on participation of specific under-represented groups including Indigenous, African Nova Scotian, women, persons with disabilities, new immigrants)
- Number and value of applied research projects
- Number of technical solutions found
- Number of business solutions resolved
- Value of leveraged funding
- Number of innovation activities supported / delivered
- Impact of public relations exposure of rural innovation activities
- Number of resources and infrastructures supported / started (e.g. maker spaces, incubators, etc.)
- Number of businesses that cultivate confidence in others to create businesses
January 2019