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A new report contends that the majority of Canada’s planned spending of $240 billion over 20 years on defence procurement can be used to boost domestic industrial innovation, productivity and competitiveness if Ottawa rapidly implements a comprehensive strategy for buying Canadian.

The CANARIE user community has given an overwhelming thumb’s down to the concept of introducing connection fees for linking to the organization’s high speed research and education network. The feedback was received following the distribution of a discussion paper on the issue, augmented by conference calls and a summit held in Ottawa last month.

It may seem an unlikely partnership at first glance, but the recently announced collaboration between the Banff Centre and the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) is borne of desire to merge cutting-edge science with the arts in an environment geared towards creativity and out-of-the-box thinking.

Majority of original CECRs fail review

A new fiscal reality and a strict emphasis on commercialization and sustainability have dramatically reduced the original slate of Centres of Excellence for Commercialization and Research (CECR) with just four out of 11 receiving extended funding.

Business-Led NCE competition

The Quebec Consortium for Drug Discovery (CQDM) has emerged as the lone winner in the recent competition for extended funding of the Business-Led Networks of Centres of Excellence (BL-NCE) with a 46% increase over its initial funding allocation.

12th Annual RE$EARCH MONEY conference

Budget 2013: Checking the Pulse of Canada’s Innovation Policies

April 9-10, 2013
National Arts Centre,, Ottawa

Join RE$EARCH MONEY for in-depth discussion and analysis of the 2013
federal Budget and the current status of Canada’s innovation policies.

The recently elected Quebec government has partially acquiesced to mounting opposition to $63 million in cuts to its research portfolio with a reallocation of $26.5 million directed towards R&D for climate change and health.

The oldest of Canada’s bilateral industrial R&D programs has launched the Canada-Israel Energy Science and Technology Fund (CIESTF) to tackle technological challenges facing the sustainable development of unconventional oil and gas resources as well as renewable energy sources.

12th Annual RE$EARCH MONEY conference

Budget 2013: Checking the Pulse of Canada’s Innovation Policies

April 9-10, 2013
National Arts Centre,, Ottawa

Join RE$EARCH MONEY for in-depth discussion and analysis of the 2013
federal Budget and the current status of Canada’s innovation policies.

First-of-a-kind report from OCADU

Ontario has considerable strength in mobile technology research, highly qualified personnel, infrastructure and a solid base of companies in several industry sectors — but it lacks sufficient mechanisms and access to capital to boost commercial development, says a new report on the province’s mobile sector produced by OCAD Univ (OCADU).