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12th Annual RE$EARCH MONEY conference

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

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

Speakers include:

Tom Jenkins, Executive Chairman and CTO, Open Text Corp

Lanis Anthony, Chief Entrepreneurial Officer, CCINC Group of Companies

Tim Bradshaw, Head of Research and Innovation Policy, The Russell Group, UK

Helen Braiter, Director, Canadian Innovation Commercialization Program (CICP)

Charley Lax, Managing General Partner, GrandBanks Capital, Boston

Jerome Le Corvec, President & CEO of Aonix Advanced Materials Corp

David Watters, President, Global Advantage Consulting Group Inc.

Celebrating 15th anniversary

The Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) won’t be requesting new funding in the next federal Budget but will be seeking a commitment of predictable, sustainable funding in future years.

Recommendations fiscally neutral

A high-level review of Canada’s aerospace and space sectors is recommending a series of coordinated initiatives to stimulate their industrial competitiveness amidst a rapidly evolving global environment.

AstraZeneca providing cash & research facility

The Quebec government is providing a $28-million grant to help jump-start yet another collaborative R&D model for biopharmaceuticals aimed at encouraging industry-academic collaboration and countering the downturn in the sector’s R&D spending in the province.

By their very definition, angel investors are invisible – flying beneath the radar and deploying their personal wealth to support attractive start-up opportunities. Like other investment classes, however, angels have common interests and challenges that can benefit from representation and the National Angel Capital Association (NACO) aims to be their primary forum.

By Debbie Lawes

Resource companies are expected to be major players in a new international mining institute slated to begin operations by May/13. The Univ of British Columbia and Simon Fraser Univ beat out four other applicants to lead the new Canadian International Institute for Extractive Industries and Development (CIIEID), which will receive $25 million over five years from the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA).

Startup Canada has unveiled a three-part action plan to be financed through sponsorships and crowd-funding and aimed at making Canada one of the world’s leading entrepreneurial economies. Its crowd funding campaign was launched December 4th in Waterloo with a target of $100,000.

Mitacs has announced the winners of its second annual awards for students enrolled in one of its fellowships and internships programs. They are:

Dr Lisa-Marie Collimore, a postdoctoral fellow from the Univ of Toronto, who partnered with publishing giant Pearson to conduct research on the potential marketability of a peer- and self-assessment tool called Cogneeto for students in K-12, during her Mitacs-Elevate fellowship;

Sachin Goel, an Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur undergraduate student.

The main issue was intellectual property but witnesses appearing before the House of Commons Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology (INDU) had a lot more to say on the state of Canada’s innovation system and the effectiveness of current programs and policies.

Canada’s ability to get ahead of the curve on the development and deployment of silicon photonics may depend upon a collaborative initiative that aims to reach consensus on a roadmap and action plan for the emerging technology.