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A national consortium led by the MITACS Network of Centres of Excellence (NCE) has won the competition to manage the NCE’s Industrial Research and Development Internship (IRDI) pilot program with $8.64 million in funding.

A funding shortfall at Statistics Canada is undermining its ability to generate new and existing data sets for science, technology and innovation (STI) and threatening Canada’s preeminent position in the field internationally.

Canada’s success in achieving leadership in science, technology and innovation (STI) statistics is largely due to the tenacity of Dr Fred Gault, who retired this week after a 24-year career at Statistics Canada.

Targeting coal and oil sands production

The federal government has issued calls for proposals to deal with two of the dirtiest sources of energy production as part of its $230-million EcoEnergy Technology Initiative (ETI).

CECR Profiles

Advances in the scientific underpinnings of personalized medicine are being focused on the growing epidemic in organ failure with a new Centre of Excellence for Commercialization and Research (CECR) based in Vancouver.

A consortium of more than 75 research groups has received new funding to accelerate the development of new and innovative medicines combatting cancer. The Unit for the Discovery of Medicines at the Univ of Montreal (UDM2) is establishing a commercialization unit to move innovative discoveries along the drug discovery chain more quickly and effectively by linking its discovery portfolio and technological platforms to new partners that include innovative pharmaceutical companies.

The Univ of Toronto is seeking to boost its commercialization output with major changes in its inventions policy including an enhanced rewards system and greater flexibility in the assignment of intellectual property (IP).

May 21, 2008
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