- Any operational unit, academic or administrative, individual or external organization may propose and develop new ideas, technologies and services.
- Innovation work is very small-scale, trials are limited to few participants and limited in time.
- Objectives are speed, agility, low cost, demonstration of potential, gauging of interest and planning for future scaling.
- UBC IT contributes gating requirements for possible future scaling and may provide computing resources as well as people support to innovators.
The following diagram shows the activity that takes place at the innovation stage and the proposed model for gating and process thereafter.
