Insights from interviews with key interest holders will help shape the City’s Innovation Ecosystem Action Plan by clarifying local strengths, gaps, partnership opportunities, and priority actions for fostering the development of an innovation ecosystem, which is an important contributor to innovation-driven economic growth. The City will conduct at least 30 interviews with key interest holders—including businesses, post-secondary institutions, investors, tech workers, startup founders, and non-profit organizations—to identify and validate the critical components of Maple Ridge’s emerging (and future growing) innovation ecosystem.