When the Innovation Superclusters Initiative competition was announced in May, it was only a matter of time before proposals started trickling in from Canada’s strongest tech centres, including York Region. Located in the heart of the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), York Region boasts the second highest number of information, communications, and technology employers in the country, with over 4,400 ICT firms.
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Canada’s BioDesign Innovation Supercluster: Forestry, green chemistry and genomics team up to compete for supercluster
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Sustainable living. Clean transportation. Infrastructure. These strategic areas form the basis for a proposed BioDesign Supercluster being pitched by the forestry, green chemistry and genomics sectors as they attempt to take the bioeconomy beyond immediate innovation and environmental challenges.
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Protein Innovations Canada (PIC) — an agri-food consortium of western Canadian-based companies focused on plant-based proteins and products for human and animal consumption — has entered the race for $950 million in supercluster funding to energize the sector and become an engine of growth.
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TRIUMF is in the midst of a multi-year effort to establish an Institute for Advanced Medical Isotopes (IAMI), which would feature major infrastructure for creating and handling these radioactive products, as well as laboratories for testing them in scientific and clinical settings. While similar work takes place in a variety of university and hospital settings across the country, this facility is intended to concentrate all aspects of such work — from the creation of raw materials to clinical trial work of potential therapies — in a single location…
Read MoreDaring to innovate: Quebec launches five-year strategy for research and innovation
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Quebec has come a long way in strengthening its knowledge capacity since the early days of the Quiet Revolution. The notion of investing in S&T for its economic, social and cultural development has always been central to its policy platforms irrespective of political party. The May 11 release of the 126-page Quebec Research and Innovation Strategy (SQRI) by Quebec premier Philippe Couillard signals a major shift by the province to aim much higher and up the province’s innovation game.
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In order for Canada to shift its focus from R&D to prosperity, post-secondary institutions have to better prepare young people to excel in commerce on a human level.
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Emerging trends in federal S&T spending
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In late May, Statistics Canada released its most recent data on federal government S&T spending. There was plenty to chew on and one clear paradox emerged.
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