11TH Annual RE$EARCH MONEY ConferenceCanada’s Premier Innovation Event
“Budget 2012: Canada’s new innovation strategy for an age of austerity?”
May 16-17, 2012
Minto Suites, Ottawa
Speakers and Panelists include:
Adam Chowaniec, Chair, BelAir Networks
Kevin Lynch, Vice-Chair, BMO Financial Group
Peter Nicholson, author of CCA Report on Business Innovation
David Watters, president of Global Advantage Consulting Group Inc
Karna Gupta, president & CEO of ITAC
Jim Roche, president & CEO of CANARIE
To register:
http://www.
Opportunity to boost international presence
Canada became ground zero for scientific excellence last week when 7,000 delegates and 700 journalists converged on Vancouver to attend the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) — the second time in the organization’s 164-history that it has held the event north of the 49th parallel.
Industry Canada has selected David Emerson to lead launched a review of the government’s programs and policies for the aerospace and space sectors, supported by a three-person advisory council and a secretariat.
Talks begin with other provinces
Cisco Canada could create 300 new R&D jobs within 18 months — three and a half years ahead of schedule — as part of an agreement signed with the Ontario government last fall that includes $455 million in new spending on R&D over the next five years (R$, September 13/11).
11TH Annual RE$EARCH MONEY ConferenceCanada’s Premier Innovation Conference
“Budget 2012: Canada’s new innovation strategy for an age of austerity?”
May 16-17, 2012
Minto Suites, Ottawa
Speakers and Panelists include:
Adam Chowaniec, Chair, BelAir Networks
Kevin Lynch, Vice-Chair, BMO Financial Group
Peter Nicholson, author of CCA Report on Business Innovation
David Watters, president of Global Advantage Consulting Group Inc
To register:
(416) 481-7070 ext.
Disconnect between perception and reality
The Conference Board of Canada (CBoC) has established a Centre for Business Innovation (CBI) that it hopes will help make Canadian companies more innovative.
Renewed CECR funding essential
Faced with a burgeoning pipeline of life sciences discoveries and an increasingly risk-averse pharmaceutical sector, the Vancouver-based Centre for Drug Research and Development (CDRD) has implemented a novel commercialization model to boost value creation and engage industry.
The federal government has issued a request for expression of interest (RFEOI) in the nuclear laboratories of Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd (AECL) — “the heart and soul” of the remaining crown corporation — to help determine the restructuring process that has already culminated in the sale of its CANDU reactor division to SNC Lavalin last year (R$, August 9/11).
Canada would do well to avoid scraping “the bottom of the free-market barrel” and employ a more interventionist, sectoral approach to stimulating innovation, productivity and global competitiveness. That’s the view of Canadian Auto Workers economist Jim Stanford, who was one of four participants at a Canada 20-20 panel discussion in Ottawa last week.
By Debbie Lawes
Canada’s ability to capitalize on genomics research received a major boost this week with a nation-wide competition that will see $135 million invested to move personalized medicine from the lab to the clinic.
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