Canada’s Top 100 corporate R&D-performing companies far exceeded 2017’s outlays, jumping from a 0.07% to a 10.6% increase in R&D spending in 2018. But big R&D champions remain scarce.
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Canada’s innovation players are changing their game to better compete in the international research arena
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Speaking in a panel at the 2019 Canadian Science Policy Conference in Ottawa, representatives from Canada’s research community debated how to better promote and coordinate international partnerships and to help Canadian companies scale abroad.
Read MoreNRC’s Chief Science Officer wants to ensure research excellence remains a defining characteristic of the organization
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Dr. Danial Wayner returned to the National Research Council last year to assist in expanding its outward focus and reinforce its quest for continuous research excellence. Here, he talks about his original inspiration as a summer student at NRC in 1979, what it takes to instil a culture of collaboration, and why an atmosphere of excitement has taken hold at the organization.
Read MoreScience and research communities concerned about possible diminished role for science in new Liberal cabinet
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The Liberal government’s elimination of the Minister of Science from its new Cabinet has set off intense speculation over how — or whether — the party’s public commitments on science, research and innovation will continue into a second term.
Read MoreNational Research Council boosts research excellence and collaboration as part of re-imagining initiative
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University of Waterloo’s innovation portfolio evolving to meet the future needs of research and industry
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The University’s of Waterloo’s new innovation portfolio is becoming the driver of change for the institution’s new strategy to maximize the economic and social impact of its researchers in an era of disruptive technologies. Led by former IBM executive Sanjeev Gill, the suite of services spans the gamut of supports, from incubators and accelerators to…
Read MoreExcept Greens, campaigning parties silent on support for STI
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With the exception of the Green Party, scant attention is being paid to STI funding and policy issues as the parties compete on so-called pocketbook issues while ignoring the critical underpinnings of the knowledge economy.
Read MoreStatsCan identifies trends behind slow growth in domestic industrial R&D spending
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A new Statistics Canada report identifies key characteristics of Canadian industrial R&D, including an increase in outsourcing to universities, an uptick in R&D performed by foreign-based firms and a slight decline in the number of people engaged in R&D.
Read MoreCANARIE refunded at historic levels as part of Canada’s new Digital Research Infrastructure Strategy
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CANARIE, Canada’s 26-year-old research and education network, has received $137 million in funding, solidifying its prominent place within the country’s national digital research infrastructure (DRI) ecosystem
Read MoreNew CCA report points the way for a made-in-Canada approach to federal research infrastructure renewal
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An expert panel of the Council of Canadian Academies (CCA) has issued a comprehensive report providing a set of guiding principles to assist the government in carrying out the most ambitious federal S&T research infrastructure renewal in recent history.
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