Author: Mark Henderson

Toronto’s financial services sector is tapping into Ontario’s high-tech expertise to address growing challenges and gain competitive advantage. The Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE) and Toronto Financial Services Alliance (TFSA) have entered a collaborative agreement that will see financial firms partner with academic-based researchers and tech companies to develop common intellectual property (IP) and new spin-offs.

Strategy for Partnerships and Innovation

A new report on the first five years of a research strategy for industry-academic collaboration indicates that the suite of programs created by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) is resulting in an unprecedented number of joint projects and activities, many of which have evolved into long-term relationships.

Plummeting oil prices have killed an Alberta endowment for agricultural research less than a year after it was announced with great fanfare. The beleaguered provincial government has eliminated the Alberta Future Fund.