After just seven months in the position, Greg Rickford has been replaced by Ed Holder as minister of state for science and technology — part of a minor Cabinet shuffle stemming from the resignation of Finance minister Jim Flaherty.
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CQDM and CIHR join forces with pilot program to enable commercialization
Pharmaceutical companies large and small have a novel new program for translating academic research into product and services with the launch of the CQDM/CIHR Collaborative Funding Program to Accelerate Drug Discovery in Personalized Medicine.
The 13th Annual RE$EARCH MONEY Conference
13th Annual RE$EARCH MONEY conference
Budget 2014: Re-balancing Innovation Support Programs
22-23 April 2014
National Arts Centre, Ottawa
Federal Budget 2014 contained little that was unexpected, with a few surprise announcements of funding for research and innovation initiatives that potentially blinker an overall neglect of the area.
Cluster development and alignment key to boosting Toronto’s worrisome productivity
Institute for Competitiveness & Prosperity
The Toronto region has a productivity problem and a new report points towards steps that need to be taken to capitalize on its deep clusters by innovating and improving on a continual basis.
Critical errors led to Nortel’s demise in a “black cloud” of customer dissatisfaction
Report cites culture of arrogance
The decline and ultimate dissolution of Nortel Networks Corp was caused by a litany of factors that resulted in an inflexible business model and a culture of arrogance that kept leading-edge technologies on the shelf while competitors grabbed market share in a rapidly changing business environment, concludes a new study.
IRAP enhances suite of business innovation services with national voucher program
Latest Jenkins Panel recommendation
A new national voucher pilot administered by the Industrial Research Assistance Program (IRAP) is the latest program to be implemented based on recommendations of the expert panel on federal support for business R&D, headed by Tom Jenkins.
CIHR management’s plans for ethics come under fire from ethics researchers
Key Task Force recommendation rejected
A prominent research ethicist is asking Parliament to call the president of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) to appear before a committee to explain why the agency rejected a key recommendation by a Task Force on Ethics Reform and is failing to meet its legislated obligation to maintain a strong and substantive ethics program.
Large IT financings drive Canadian venture capital to seven-year high of $2 billion
New data on Canadian venture capital provides encouraging signs that Canada’s financing climate for technology-based companies is improving, with $2 billion in investments in 2013 — the country’s strongest showing since 2007.
The 13th Annual RE$EARCH MONEY Conference
13th Annual RE$EARCH MONEY conference
Budget 2014: Re-balancing Innovation Support Programs
22-23 April 2014
National Arts Centre, Ottawa
Federal Budget 2014 contained little that was unexpected, with a few surprise announcements of funding for research and innovation initiatives that potentially blinker an overall neglect of the area.
AECL strikes agreement with Isowater to boost production, markets for heavy water
Collaboration between an Ontario high-tech company and Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd (AECL) is promising to open up a global marketplace for the recycling, upgrading and non-nuclear use of deuterium oxide (D20) – an enriched form of heavy water.
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