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The Canada Foundation for Innovation (CF) is about to embark on a thorough re-examination of its program delivery to determine how it can best contribute to Canada’s branding as an internationally competitive player in the science and technology arena.

Inadequate public funding for information and communications technologies (ICT) research at the university level is drying up the discovery pipeline and threatening one of the fastest growing sectors of the Canadian economy, says a new study sponsored by the Canadian Institute for Telecommunications Research (CITR).

The Medical Research Council’s much vaunted joint research program with the pharmaceutical sector has finally been renewed for a second five-year term with provision for significantly higher contributions from the public purse.

The Networks of Centres of Excellence (NCE) program has awarded $52 million over four years to three new networks following a long and exhaustive selection and review process, bringing to 18 the number of networks within the widely respected program .

Three-year-old Statistics Canada data detailing the geographic distribution of federal S&T spending provide a revealing snapshot of the negative impact of Program Review on government outlays. After reaching a historic high of $4.

Problems and delays continue to plague Statistics Canada’s showcase industrial R&D survey following the decision two years ago to use Revenue Canada data for firms spending less than $1 million s year on R&D.

Top 15 Recipient Institutions
($ millions)

Institution Amount

Sunnybrook Health Science Centre 83.711
McMaster Univ 32.715
Univ of Western Ontario 30.602
Univ of British Columbia 24.344
Univ of Alberta 20.