The Aerospace Industries Association of Canada is asking Ottawa to take immediate action, including a new investment bank, wage subsidies, R&D funding and a long-term sector strategy, to help its members recover from the devastating economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Organization: Strategic Innovation Fund
Canada’s Innovation Superclusters join fight against COVID-19
Tasked by Ottawa to prioritize funding that responds to COVID-19, two of Canada’s Innovation Superclusters have already launched programs to help combat the pandemic.
The Short Report, August 21, 2019: Bio-manufacturing, insurance innovation, women entrepreneurs
The Academic Ranking of World Universities released its list of top 1000 universities worldwide, with four Canadian universities in the top 100: University of Toronto (24), University of British Columbia (35), McGill University (90) and McMaster University (also 90). – ARWU 2019 Genome Ontario has published a proposal to the Strategic Innovation Fund‘s National Ecosystems Stream, to…
$37.5M SIF investment brings BioVectra expansion project to $144.6M
Charlottetown, PEI-based life sciences company BioVectra Inc. announced a five-year project to support and expand its production capacity in Atlantic Canada.
Q&A: North co-founder Stephen Lake on creating a Canadian scale-up powered by digital innovation
This past fall, the Waterloo-based tech company formerly known as Thalmic Labs rebranded as North and launched its much-anticipated new product, a fashion-first pair holographic lenses called Focals. In an email interview with RE$EARCH MONEY, co-founder Stephen Lake shares his thoughts on scaling an innovative tech company in Canada.
CAE taps feds and Quebec government for nearly $200 million in loans to launch ambitious $1-billion digitization project
The federal government is helping one of Canada’s most enduring aerospace firms to apply the latest developments in digital technology to its simulation and training products and services. CAE Inc will receive $150 million from the Strategic Innovation Fund (SIF) to support a $1-billion, five-year program dubbed Project Digital Intelligence.