Kirk LaPointe: Why B.C.’s innovation framework needs a rewrite for Indigenous tech – BIV
January 9, 2026
To ensure B.C.’s long-term competitiveness, innovation systems must broaden the models of ownership, scale, and growth
Indigenous participation in the tech sector remains strikingly low, below one per cent. It would take an eight-fold increase for participation to have parity with population.
That gap is often framed as a pipeline problem, suggesting the solution lies in more training, more exposure, and more time. But the persistence of the disparity points to something deeper. The constraint is not a shortage of talent or ideas, but the design of the innovation system itself.
