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Sep 19, 2008; ... The demand for hospital research infrastructure greatly exceeds supply. One of Canada's most respected entrepreneurs says the high-tech sector is in danger of being shipped offshore. Canada's innovation system is under severe pressure and there doesn't appear to be any willingness on the part of ...
Ontario scores big with six awards in CFI's Research Hospital Fund competition
Sep 19, 2008; ... $1.1 billion worth of research infrastructure The Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) has announced the winner of its Research Hospital Fund (RHF) more than five years after it was created to deal with a severe shortage of medical research space across the country. Eight ...
IP STUDY RECOMMENDATIONS
Sep 19, 2008; ... (selected) For Government * Seek other methods of encouraging innovation including health and environmental regulations, tax rules and the judicial system; * Create entities in conjunction with industry to mediate disputes and assist indigenous and local communities in ...
New CSA president's first task is to develop Long-Term Space Plan
Sep 19, 2008; ... The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) has a new president, a proposed new governance structure and marching orders to develop a new Long-Term Space Plan. Dr Steve MacLean takes the reins at the CSA after an extended period of turmoil and strategic drift with a mandate from Industry minister Jim ...
Alberta opens nanotech commercialization centre
Sep 19, 2008; ... The Alberta and federal governments are contributing $8 million and $3.5 million respectively to establish the Alberta Centre for Advanced Microsystems and Nanotechnology Products (ACAMP) in Edmonton. The Centre plans to assist the province's nascent nanotech sector by supporting ...
Aerospace funding dominates flurry of pre-election spending announcements
Sep 19, 2008; ... In the days preceding the September 7 election call, the Conservative government made a flurry of S&T related announcements across Ontario and Quebec and into Manitoba, including $75 million from the Strategic Aerospace and Defence Initiative (SADI) and an additional $80 million in Ford ...
Group calls for 10-years of funding for diabetes
Sep 19, 2008; ... The Juvenile Diabetes4s Research Foundation (JDRF) is using the election campaign to renew its call for a 10-year funding commitment from the federal government for a strategic partnership with the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (ClHR). The JDRF first made the recommendation last June ...
Nortel to sell Metro Ethernet unit
Sep 19, 2008; ... Nortel Networks Corp is shrinking again, this time through the sale of its Metro Ethernet business. The decision coincided with third quarter earnings of $2.3 billion, lower than ...
York Univ joins TRIUMF as associate member
Sep 19, 2008; ... York Univ is the latest post-secondary institution to join TRIUMF as an associate member. The membership will give Yorkbased researchers access to large-scale research facilities and expertise in the physical and life sciences. In ...
New models urgently required to replace outdated management of biotechnology IP
Sep 19, 2008; ... Seven-year study funded by SSHRC The biotechnology industry must change its outdated approach to managing intellectual property (IP) or face increasing legal gridlock and decreasing financial returns, according to a new Canadian study released September 9. Headed by McGill Univ's Dr ...
TRIUMF signs MOU with Indian cyclotron
Sep 19, 2008; ... TRIUMF has signed an MOU with India's Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre to share resources and technical expertise in superconducting radio-frequency accelerator technology. There will also be an exchange of scientists to share knowledge and experience in ...
Drop of industrial R&D in Ontario pulls down national total: Statistics Canada
Sep 19, 2008; ... Industrial R&D is expected to inch up just 1% in 2008, dampening expectations that last year's 2.7% gain was the beginning of a more substantial recovery and reflecting deepening weakness in Ontario's manufacturing and services sectors. The data are from Statistics Canada and based on its ...
Natrix raises $19 million for commercialization
Sep 19, 2008; ... Burlington ON-based Natrix Separations Inc has closed a $19-million, series B financing to support commercialization of its separation products and complete construction of its ISO9001-compliant manufacturing facility. DE Shaw Venture Capital, Cupertino CA, is the lead investors with ...
GM Canada commits more funding to R&D
Sep 19, 2008; ... General Motors of Canada Ltd (GMCL) has agreed to invest an additional $290 million in three projects in Oshawa and St Catharines in return for being let off the hook for an early payment provision for federal and provincial assistance to the $2.5-billion Beacon Project (R$, March 9/05). The ...
U of T and IBM partner to build supercomputer
Sep 19, 2008; ... The Univ of Toronto has vaulted up the list of the world's most powerful supercomputers with an agreement between IBM and the university's SciNet Consortium to build Canada's most powerful and energy efficient machine. The machine has an innovative ...
Telecom titan urges action to stave off collapse of Canadian high-tech sector
Sep 19, 2008; ... The ongoing collapse of the Ottawa telecom cluster may be the "canary in the coal mine" signaling imminent danger for all Canadian high-tech industries, says a new report authored by Dr Terry Matthews. The chairman of Mitel Corp and March Networks says that without urgent policy and program ...
Westport raises $54 million for engine development
Sep 19, 2008; ... Westport Innovations Inc has completed a US$54-million equity offering of 4.5 million common shares which it will use for R&D and market development of its lowemissions diesel engines that burn natural gas. The financing is the second in just two months and follows ...
Calendar
Sep 19, 2008; ... November 25-27 in Longueuil QC: 6th Canadian Space Exploration Workshop. Sponsored by the Canadian Space Agency, the workshop will focus on ...
Calgary's Canterris Inc to expand in Waterloo
Sep 19, 2008; ... Calgary-based Canterris Inc has opened an office in the Waterloo region to tap into its deep pool of software talent. Once hiring begins, certain products and services will be transferred to the region ...
PEOPLE
Sep 19, 2008; ... Susan Baldwin has been appointed executive director of Compute Canada, the organization that coordinates and promotes high-performance computing in Canadian research. Baldwin joins Compute Canada from CANARIE Inc where she was chief administrative officer. She has previously held senior ...