Our Ongoing Search to Understand and Enable the Practice of Innovation to Drive Improved Organizational Performance The Innovation Expedition was launched on April 1, 1991 at the Banff Centre in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. The Banff Centre is a world class centre for the arts, leadership,innovation and mathematics. It is also a gathering place for cross boundary imagineers. Since that time, the Expedition (now a private company) has been engaged in a global search for innovative ideas,individuals, organizations, projects and products concerned with nurturing the change leaders required to both build high performing organizations in the new knowledge-¿¿based economy, and help build sustainable prosperity in communities.You can read more about the expedition at our core website:innovationexpedition dotcom and on our Renaissance Innovation Network website at renaissanceleaders dotorg. Some Precursors to the Creation of the Innovation Expedition:Prophetic voices of individuals such as Peter Drucker.