Innovation and Impact

Through its world-class innovation zones, first-rate interdisciplinary research centres and institutes, and thought-leading faculty expertise, Ryerson is activating a start-up ecosystem that attracts collaborations and partnerships with industry, government and non-profits. These exciting entrepreneurial alliances fuel improvements in products, services, businesses and policies while contributing to human-oriented and economic sustainability.

Ryerson continues to build on its strengths of integrating theory with practice through much-needed disruptions in the realms of social justice, inclusion and diversity, and by meeting societal and global challenges through the development of social enterprises and initiatives that coalesce into evidence-based solutions.

Deploying evidence-based research into action is at the heart of Ryerson’s mandate of applied learning. Through the mobilization of knowledge, Ryerson and its faculty create connections to individuals and organizations, both inside and outside the campus environment, helping to foster a research process dedicated to informing and meeting societal need.