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The Univ of Ottawa is hoping that a integrated collaborative R&D initiative with Natural Resources Canada’s Geological Survey of Canada (GSC) will help to revive a once-proud Canadian institution and train a new generation of world class geologists.

Two of five candidates to move forward

The federal government will move forward on only two of the five federal laboratories identified by an Expert Panel as early candidates for collaboration with a range of academic, institutional and industry partners.

Alberta takes aim at province’s high-tech sectors with aggressive action plan

Alberta has unveiled an integrated action plan to stimulate technology company creation and commercialization, highlighted by a $100-million contribution to seed a fund of funds through the recently created Alberta Enterprise Corp.

RE$EARCH MONEY Conference

Canada’s ability to grow global flagship companies from start-ups is being threatened by the precarious state of the Canadian high-tech sector and government must shoulder much of the blame says the country’s most prolific and successful serial entrepreneur.

An interview with Terry Matthew’s

RE$EARCH MONEY sat down with Terry Matthew’s, Canada’s foremost serial entrepreneur and chairman of Mitel Corp, a company he founded in 1972 and re-acquired in 2001.

Report due this fall

A high level panel examining Canada’s potential for competitive advantage in new and emerging areas will report this fall on ways in which the country can enhance its ability to build innovative capacity through increased commerce.

Mike Lazaridis has boosted his personal support for the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (PI) to $150 million with a new $50-million donation to the Waterloo ON-based research institution. The latest donation from the president and co-CEO of Research in Motion closely follows the appointment of Dr Neil Turok as PI’s new executive director (R$ May 20/08).

Efforts to enhance and measure the benefits of federal S&T are constrained by the current high-tech industrial landscape and a lack of tools for accurately measuring the impact of government labs in the economy and society, a gathering of federal technology transfer officials were told this week.

The selection of Toronto’s as the global and data headquarters for an ambitious $1-billion global genome consortium to combat cancer promises to dramatically increase the city’s life sciences activity and profile, says the researcher who led the effort to attract the initiative to the region.

A new consortium created to bring critical yet commercially promising vaccines to market is bolstering Saskatoon’s growing reputation as a global powerhouse for human and animal vaccine development. Supported by the federal Centres of Excellence in Commercialization and Research (CECR) program, the Pan-Provincial Vaccine Enterprise (PREVENT) intends to draw on vaccine research strengths from at least three organizations

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