Three milestones — a scientific protest march, a science advisor’s reappointment, and a telescope’s “first light” — reveal the changing face of science in the policy realm.
Organization: DARPA
Q&A: Finance Canada’s Dan Breznitz on his prescription for innovation in Canada
Economist Dan Breznitz’s fingerprints are all over Budget 2022, especially the creation of a new Canadian Innovation and Investment Agency. Research Money spoke to Breznitz after the release of the federal budget to ask him about his most recent book, Innovation in Real Places: Strategies for Prosperity in an Unforgiving World.
2021: The Year in Canadian Science and Innovation
As 2021 draws to a close, we offer a compendium of key developments in Canada’s innovation ecosystem from the past twelve months.
Quantum Valley Ideas Lab gets DARPA funding to develop quantum sensing technologies
DARPA, the U.S. defence-related R&D agency, is on everyone’s lips as a Canadian version of the agency became a promise in more than one party platform. Quantum Valley Ideas Lab, an independent research institute in Waterloo, Ont., is participating in new DARPA programs to move quantum technologies out of the laboratory and into the real world.
The Short Report – Sept. 15, 2021: COVID-19’s financial impact on universities, boosting biotherapeutics manufacturing, and more
A new biomanufacturing partnership will boost Canada’s manufacturing capacity, projecting pandemic-induced revenue loss for Canada’s universities, IPIC makes pre-budget recommendations, and more.
What the September federal election could mean for innovators in Canada
It’s official: Canada will have a federal election on September 20. The election appears to be Trudeau’s election to lose, but it will still offer opportunity to debate the Liberals’ track record and popularize new ideas in the innovation space, writes Sebastian Leck, Research Money’s managing editor.
Editorial: Canada’s researchers are asking for a more ambitious innovation approach. Is Ottawa listening?
Researchers and businesses appear to be ready for more policy experimentation and leadership from the federal government after more than a year of lockdowns and economic disruption from COVID-19.
Translational research on spinal cord injury receives $48-million award from DARPA
Canadian researchers are a core part of an international consortium of universities, startups and nonprofit organizations that has received a $48-million, 5-year grant from DARPA focused on improving paralysis in patients who have suffered acute spinal cord injury. Dr. Brian Kwon, MD, a spine surgeon at Vancouver General Hospital, Canada Research Chair in Spinal Cord Injury and professor of Orthopaedics at the University of British Columbia, is leading the Canadian team.
National Research Council receives new funding, flexibilities; IRAP boosted to handle larger projects
The National Research Council (NRC) and its Industrial Research Assistance Program (IRAP) will receive $148 million in new funding through the 2018 federal Budget to support a “reimagined” NRC calibrated to deliver on the federal government’s Innovation and Skills Plan.
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