Community Development Goals

The Institute’s community-development goals are:

• To encourage the synthesis of disparate knowledge on the University of Waterloo campus through collaborative research, seminars, workshops, conferences, and high-quality publications;
• To draw together the expertise of researchers from existing university departments, centres and institutes and associated institutions to create a community focused on using complex-systems ideas to promote innovation to solve practical problems;
• To develop a shared foundation in concepts and research tools;
• To provide university-wide training and support in the use of complex-systems research and modelling tools; and
• To act as a hub for graduate students across campus and related institutions who are studying complexity and innovation.