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Opinions differ on the outcome
The federal government’s best chance for transforming the way it performs science and technology (S&T) appears to have been cut off at the knees just weeks before the submission of a memorandum to Cabinet (MC) seeking approval of new funds.
New funding required
The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) is seeking a one-time budget increase to help it engage in innovative new ventures and assume an enhanced leadership role for the embattled domestic space industry.
Industry Canada target “not achievable”
A new report is adding more compelling evidence that Ottawa’s innovation target for creating at least 10 internationally recognized technology clusters is unrealistic and should be changed.
The Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC) has issued a wake up call to the federal government, warning that its much vaunted innovation targets are unattainable unless university research spending triples over the next nine years.
Ontario’s largest university continues to occupy the number one spot for sponsored research income while Quebec’s two biggest post-secondary institutions are the most research intensive, according to new data released this week.
The federal S&T community is primed for new challenges but it may have to face them without significant new resources. The uneasy balance between opportunity and fiscal constraint provided a potent undercurrent to a recent two-day federal S&T forum near Ottawa earlier this month.
Ingenuity Fund
The Alberta Ingenuity Fund (AIF) has launched its flagship Research Centres program with the funding of two centres at the Univ of Alberta (U of A). It marks the beginning of AIF’s objective of creating up to 15 centres focusing on areas of research considered strategic to the province’s future economic growth and well being.
National research strategy proposed
The Alberta government has unveiled an ambitious proposal for a new approach to energy research in Canada, one that includes new multi-year funding commitments from government and industry and the creation of a new network linking provincial, national and global researchers.
Funding reallocation increasingly likely
The S&T community breathed a collective if tentative sigh of relief following the September 30 Speech from the Throne and prime minister Jean Chretien’s official reply.
Gingras vs Godin
The Observatoire des sciences et des technologies (OST) is about to be merged with a research unit of the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). The move is the apparent culmination of a bitter powerplay between the two principal researchers at OST, Canada’s premier organization for producing and measuring bibliometric science and technology (S&T) indicators.
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December 12, 2018: Requiem for a National Network Program
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