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