Through a series of interviews, academic and public research, the project aims to explore a diversity of perspectives on innovation. Bringing together an inter-sectoral and interdisciplinary array of expertise, operative definitions of 'innovation' will be defined and contrasted, thematically analyzed and explored collaboratively, leveraging principles of Community-Based Participatory Research practice. The ultimate aim of the project will be to analyze the underlying values wired into the DNA of innovators across sectors, setting a frame through which to view the relationship between the values of emerging leaders, the focus of efforts across fields and the resulting implications for global markets in the near future.