Innovating Canada
CAMPAIGN: Innovative Partnerships (2022)
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New Alliances Emerge to Tackle Tough Problems
From climate change to health care, the challenges we face require innovative new coalitions. Imagine being able to repair damaged organs by printing replacement human tissues. In November, scientists at Toronto’s McEwen Stem Cell Institute announced a partnership to do just that. Working with Aspect Biosystems, a Vancouver biotech company, they’re developing a way to...
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National Research Council of Canada and the University of Waterloo to Engineer Next-Generation Quantum Sensors
The first generation of quantum devices, among them lasers and semiconductor-based transistors, brought on a technological revolution in the early 2000s and transformed society forever. The first generation of quantum devices, among them lasers and semiconductor-based transistors, brought on a technological revolution in the early 2000s and transformed society forever. Today, a new generation of...
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How to Create Future Changemakers? Give Them Real-World Experience
The University of Calgary’s Hunter Hub for Entrepreneurial Thinking is bridging the gap between students and the new economy nationwide. One of the biggest issues that innovation ventures face is a lack of easy accessibility to skilled talent. Establishing firm connections with talented individuals opens doors for collaboration, economic development, and continued prosperity for Canada. ...
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The Power of Innovative Partnerships: When One Plus One Equals Three
The Ericsson-Carleton University Strategic Partnership for Research, Talent Development, and Leadership in Wireless Networks is a strategic collaboration amplifying the strengths of industry and academia. The best partnerships are ones where each partner amplifies the strengths of the other, bringing out the best in each other and adding up to more than the sum of...
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Addressing Complex Sustainability Issues Head on with SLICE
Saskatchewan Polytechnic’s innovative new Sustainability-Led Integrated Centres of Excellence (SLICE) is empowering a better Saskatchewan. Saskatchewan Polytechnic (Sask Polytech) engages in applied research, drawing on faculty expertise to support innovation by employers and providing students the opportunity to develop critical thinking skills. The institution’s new Sustainability-Led Integrated Centre of Excellence (SLICE) is an industry-centric, solution-oriented...
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uOttawa and IBM Join Forces with Exciting New Partnership
The University of Ottawa and IBM have partnered up to launch a Cyber Range. There’s a major cybersecurity skills gap in Canada. The data varies, but reports show roughly three to four million unfilled jobs in that field. Trained cybersecurity professionals are desperately needed to fill the void. The forthcoming Cyber Range, located within the...
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Loyalist Leads the Way in Fostering Innovative Bioeconomy Partnerships
Loyalist College has taken a leadership role in the bioeconomy sector through a series of innovative partnerships. Could food “waste” be used in natural beauty products? What are the opportunities for horticulture in deep space exploration? What secrets does the genome hold for the future of farming? As industry becomes increasingly concerned with sustainable development,...
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Mitacs Supporting Partnerships to Fast Track Canadian Innovations
Sometimes necessity is the mother of invention. The need to protect people from COVID-19 inspired researcher’s innovation in face mask coatings. In March 2020, Dr. Seyyedarash (Arash) Haddadi was pursuing postdoctoral research at the University of British Columbia (UBC)’s Okanagan Campus on anticorrosion coatings for metallic parts. Then the pandemic hit — prompting him to...
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Sheridan Partnerships Find Innovative Solutions to Industry and Community Challenges
By bringing their issues, challenges and innovation needs to Sheridan, industry and community partners are growing their economic and social impact.
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The Innovative Cancer Treatments of Tomorrow are Born Through Collaboration at Queen’s University
Ground-breaking cancer treatment innovations like cell therapy are extraordinarily complex endeavours. It takes expertise from every corner of Canada to bring these scientific revolutions to the bedside. Queen’s University is where collaboration begins. Medical research has always been an all-hands-on-deck proposition. Innovative new developments and discoveries that save lives and improve outcomes can originate in...
