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of Waterloo, and co-ops have

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Engineering Site Director

Google Canada

A one-stop shop for employee recruitment:

» Skilled students are available for year-round

co-op, part-time and summer work

» Talented graduating students at the

undergraduate, master’s, and PhD levels

are eager for full-time positions

» Experienced alumni are available year-round,

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“Google has an excellent

relationship with the University

of Waterloo, and co-ops have

consistently been able to come

in and hit the ground running

in Google’s fast-paced

environment. Even in short

amounts of time, Waterloo

co-op students make important

contributions to Google’s

products and culture.”

Steven Woods

Engineering Site Director

Google Canada

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“scales of innovation” cover artwork created by artist Andrew Kolb.

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Reproduction without written permission from AURP Canada is strictly forbidden.

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Welcome to Canada Now 2012, the magazine of the Canadian

Association of University Research Parks (AURP Canada). The

magazine is a collective entity representing 27 research parks

and thousands of voices across Canada. All are focused on one

singular, shared goal: creating a better Canada, inside and outside

our boundaries.

The world of this millennium began as a world beyond borders.

Technology took us from big to small in a heartbeat; we see and

know everything in the moment. We understand implicitly that

when something happens, that action has immediate implications,

rippling and refracting without geographic, economic or cultural

regard. Whether we are coping with the fallout from extreme

weather events or from political uprisings or from human failings

or fortune, we cope or we celebrate as citizens of the Earth.

The AURP collective comes from this place of consciousness. The

voices in this issue speak about innovation and discovery that

flow back and forth within communities of like-minded individuals,

wherever they originate in thought, location or expertise. This

community extends beyond and through boundaries that are there

to frame the discussions rather than to create parameters. This

third edition of Canada Now and the stories brought to life within

it illustrate that our world is where it should be in its dialogue, and

where it needs to be to solve the problems it faces.

As the voice of Canada’s research parks, AURP does not and will

not shy away from telling the stories that need to be shared to

solve tough challenges or from sharing the wins that need to be

celebrated. In this issue, discover what Canada’s research parks

are working on as they help take Canada’s innovation out into the

world at large.

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University of Guelph Research Park, Guelph, Ontario

Change: Discourse. Debate. Deliver.

“Innovation means change. It begins with a willingness to debate and take a leadership position that challenges the process.”

How things change with time...The university’s origins were grounded in three

areas - agriculture, veterinary science and domestic

science. In the 60s, there was a general push to

be like everyone else - a generalist more than

a specialist. So we expanded our focus into the

humanities and social sciences, moving away from

our roots.

Recently, we’ve re-examined this shift. We have

acknowledged that what the world needs us to be

now is different from other universities based on our

unique roots and what we do well. We acknowledge

our strengths are food, health, environment and

communities, as well as a pre-eminent approach to

teaching and learning. This is what we will take with

us moving into the future.

Alastair Summerlee is a man who refuses to shy away from taking on and speaking truths - and the University of Guelph is a better place for it.In 1988, Alastair Summerlee was lured away from his native Britain to the University of Guelph as a professor in the Department of Biomedical Science. Since his arrival, he has gone on to fill in the years with incredible depth, breadth and variety, taking on myriad roles including scholar, professor, researcher, and university administrator. For the last nine years, he has been known as President and Vice-Chancellor of the university.

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University of Guelph Research Park, Guelph, Ontario

University of Guelph’s DNA...I am proud of this university’s DNA.

We attract the type of person who wants to make a real

difference in the world. One of the principle reasons

students apply to Guelph includes a desire to be involved

in the community. Volunteering is a part of what we are.

This university draws and creates people who understand

the value and importance of volunteering.

What that means is we have a campus that is engaged

beyond studies and research. In fact, over 70% of the

university’s students, staff and faculty spend more than

five hours of their time per week volunteering. If you

use the number of hours in minimum wage dollar value,

that equates to a value of $10.6 million dollars within the

Guelph region.

This has incredible long-term repercussions. Just

imagine the social and economic impact that results

every time Guelph graduates leave the campus, spending

the rest of their lives giving of themselves wherever they

end up in the world.

The underlying meaning of innovation...This university has had a research park for over 20

years. It started in one place and has evolved beyond

its beginnings, becoming an integral outreach entity for

the campus. Its changes are entirely in line with how we

approach innovation.

Innovation means change. It begins with a willingness

to debate and take a leadership position that challenges

the process. This doesn’t always mean things are always

broken. If they are working well, people will tell you and

there will be reason not to change. But by constantly

asking the right questions, by challenging the status

quo and by rethinking the old ways, new ideas will arise.

The path towards doing things differently or better will

ultimately spark innovation.

Rethinking volunteerism...In doing our own rethinking about how we deliver

education and asking ourselves where the fit is for our

inclination toward volunteerism, we’ve sparked our own

new ideas.

We have begun a conversation around the establishment

of a school for civil society. Our vision re-imagines how

education and community engagement for credit can

create more active learning, going beyond traditional

teaching models.

Not shying away from truths...I land in tough situations sometimes.

Front and centre, we are an institution that works

aggressively on genetics. This causes immediate and

complete friction inside and outside the institution. But

it is imperative for universities and their leaders to speak

out - however challenging, awkward or difficult. And that

is what I do.

We must always stand up and be accountable for the

things that are good or need explaining. When we make

mistakes, we need to say sorry and learn from the

experience, knowing there are no right or wrong answers

today that will be the same tomorrow.

It is the confrontational, complex discussions that will

take us nearer the truth.

Talking to tough topics...As Canadians, we pride ourselves as being peacemakers,

even though there a lot of things we have done lately

that say otherwise. Then there are water, climate change,

and genetic modification to think about. These are all

big topics society needs to discuss.

Yet universities have abdicated on these discussions,

leaving the heavy lifting to the media, who have their

own motivation. We need everyone inside the tent when

we talk about these things and all voices talking. We need

to value debate and discourse in a productive, respectful

and professional manner.

What keeps you up at night...As an individual who does not sleep much in the first

place, I don’t worry about the things that might keep me

up, with one exception. What most distresses me is when

I have a level of trust in people and that trust is betrayed.

I am not speaking about failing at all. This is about

trusting a person or a process will be taken seriously and

someone deliberately and willfully lets me down. That is

what turns over and over in my mind.

Understanding the things you will never do...The one life ambition I will never realize is that I will

never sing opera on the stage. I am fascinated by music

and in particular, opera. I still find it hard to understand

how people can look at a score and not hear the music.

The very first time I was taken away by the “Ring” cycle,

I was in the library in Bristol, still a young veterinary

student. I was reading the music, and suddenly, as I read,

it was as if the score leapt off the page and became a full

orchestra. The music I heard from those pages was so

loud, I had to abandon the book and exit the library.

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A simple looking device is sitting on the precipice of a medical revolution. The inventor behind the device, Dr. Dennis Filips, Chief Executive Officer of Innovative Trauma Care, has spent the last two years designing this invention because he knew there had to be a better way. His fortitude in following his instinct will provide a solution to one of the most common causes of preventable death: Bleeding.As a Combat Trauma Surgeon with the Canadian Navy, including

five tours of duty in Afghanistan, Dr. Filips saw first-hand how

much difficulty physicians experience trying to control bleeding

in the field at the moment of injury. The best solution is to

temporize the situation by a trained physician sewing the wound

closed. But that is difficult, often impossible, to do at the moment

or place of injury.

Dr. Filips explains, “In the field, you are faced with a choice.

Suturing a wound takes time, experience and a trained doctor.

Faced with a choice between doing things in the field or getting

to a hospital, time wins out. In a combat zone or mass disaster

scenario, things are even more complex. Physicians assess the

injured using a triage approach, seeing everyone first before

even deciding on treatments.”

More often, one of three treatments is used to stabilize a wound

until the person can be transported to a medical facility. The

stabilizing treatments include using tourniquets, applying direct

pressure or packing the wound with blood clotting agents.

Depending on the severity of the wound, treatments are stop-

gaps that may provide only a few precious extra minutes to get

people the help they need.

Incredibly, these in-field treatments have not changed since

World War 2, which begs the question - why? Dr. Filips admits

that typically, “When people try to envision a better way of doing

things, they usually see this as an improvement of what already

exists versus doing it a different way. We get used to doing things

a particular way, and we assume these treatments are the best

we can do.”

Innovative Trauma Care, Edmonton Research Park, Edmonton, Alberta

Innovative Trauma Care

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“As a surgeon, I was only able to help people one person at a time. With this device, I have created the potential to help thousands - and then some.”

How revolutionary is the product?

The combination of effectiveness, ease of use and the fact

that anyone can be trained to use the device means others can

apply the treatment in the field or during triage, freeing up

physicians’ time for other treatments while saving lives.

Dr. Filips believes once the word is out and the concept seen

in the field, the treatment will catch fire. It may change first

aid protocol and perhaps become yet another medical device

waiting next to defibrillators for emergency use.

The company is located in the Advanced Technology Centre

in the Edmonton Research Park. Dr. Filips and Dr. Atkinson are

currently raising private financing to move the product to the

rollout phase. They are also thinking about different products

and devices that will address other life threatening problems.

As a man who knew from a young age he wanted to be a

surgeon, Dr. Filips’ entrepreneurial drive has taken his desire

to help others up a notch. Says Dr. Filips, “As a surgeon, I was

only able to help people one person at a time. With this device, I

have created the potential to help thousands - and then some.”

So what changed his thinking?

Four years ago, Dr. Filips retired from the military,

but not from trauma medicine. He took on volunteer

work with the Red Cross as well as contracts in trauma

medicine where he taught, assessed and recommended

other treatments. It was during this time that he started

to seriously consider that there might be a better

treatment - a way to instantly close a wound effectively

and efficiently. He began to think about the best solution

for trauma wounds - suturing.

Dr. Filips shared his thoughts with a close friend,

Dr. Ian Atkinson. Atkinson had 15 years experience

commercializing products in the bio-tech space in

California, and he got very excited when Dr. Filips

shared his idea. They launched Innovative Trauma

Care in 2010, personally funding the first product

development cycle. Today, Atkinson is Chief

Operating Officer of the company.

During the next two years, Dr. Filips broke down

the process of what a surgeon does when he

closes a wound, building those precise movements

into a device that could do the

job. At first glance, the device

looks simple enough. It employs

curved suture needles with a

rotational movement that lifts

the skin instead of pushing

it down, which is crucial to

successful suturing. Pressure

is applied to create a seal, and

the product remains stable until

removal. The end result is an

inexpensive intuitive device that

seals wounds within seconds,

which almost anyone can be

trained to use.

With field testing done, they

are set to launch the product

this year. The interest in the

device is high and the applications for it vast. Dr. Filips

has identified 14 market segments, which include First

Responder, Military and Hospital Emergency rooms. He

is working with both Canadian and US military, as well

as physicians, medical associations, veterinarian schools

and professionals, among others.

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Discovery Parks

many MINDS today’s technology playground

How many minds will the world need to solve the challenges of tomorrow? That number may be an unknown, but the place where many will gather to work on the answers is not. That place is the David Johnston Research + Technology Park at the University of Waterloo. The park is a hotspot that attracts intelligent voices, inquiring minds and unlimited imaginations. They are the many minds of tomorrow.

www.rtpark.uwaterloo.ca

Reaching out and collaborating has never been more important to economic success. In fact, it is imperative to the global economy. And that is exactly why the Association of University Research Parks is forming partnerships and collaborations that answer that need.

Voices of innovation and commercialization

Five years ago, the Association of University Research Parks

(AURP) brought 26 park voices together to speak as one. The

power of that one voice is helping Canada with an important

mandate: accelerating the commercialization process. AURP is

working smarter at the task by leveraging entities that already

exist and partnering where it makes sense.

Explains Ms. Carol Stewart, President of AURP Canada, “The

ultimate goal for all research parks is to build and sustain

cluster development in the

regions they are located.

Part of that is about

helping companies with

the commercialization

process, which all the

parks do, and another is

building tenant capacity and

identifying lead generation

opportunities. For both

goals, there are partners

out there who can act as

a funnel for us in this process. Two very important ones are

Canada’s Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade

(DFAIT) and the International Commercialization Alliance (ICA).”

Stewart believed partnering with DFAIT on the tenant needs of

research parks had win-win potential. DFAIT works on building

relationships and awareness of Canadian innovations inside

and outside the country, while focusing on making Canadian

offerings more comprehensive. Building partnerships in science

and technology with different countries worldwide requires a

comprehensive approach beyond government-to-government

interactions. Research parks connect business to academia with

a focus on commercialization of research. A partnership means

plugging real business, as well as university-based academics and

research via the parks, directly into DFAIT’s value proposition. At

the same time, DFAIT has plenty to offer AURP.

“Moving into the future means being a part of global plan,”

explains Stewart, “and DFAIT is working towards that already.

A large focus for their work is in and around innovation in

science and technology with an important tie-in: fostering R&D

partnerships within the country, and abroad, by leveraging

partnerships within Canada. Working together, we offer DFAIT

a soft landing spot to bring foreign investors that want to be

connected to business, academia and innovation, and they offer

us a pipeline to incoming investment.”

Recently, AURP invited another organization into the fold, the

Canadian Commercialization Consortium (C3). A committee of

the International Commercialization Alliance (ICA), the initiative

is designed to accelerate the commercialization process in

Canada through national and international partnerships and

sharing of best practices - a perfect fit for AURP Canada and its

mandate. C3 is comprised of a host of technology associations,

government representatives and academic researchers and

innovators linked to a particular geographic region. These groups

participate in different capacities in the commercialization of IP

developed in their region via universities, technology companies

and the public sector. All are experts in their particular node of

technology and innovation. C3 brings all the intellectual capacity

together to share best practices and international contacts with

the mutual goal to advance the country in start up activity.

Explains Stewart, “Working closely together, the goal is to

open up a communication highway that spans the country

and reaches beyond all borders. The collective voices of AURP

reflect a comprehensive story of Canadian commercialization

and innovation from coast to coast. We are taking these voices

beyond our borders and doing everything we can to have those

voices heard throughout the world.”

“Moving into the future

means being part of a

global plan”

Discovery Parks

today’s technology playground

RESEARCH PARKSASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY

ASSOCIATION DES PARCSUNIVERSITAIRES DE RECHERCHE

Creating Communities of Innovation

Creer des communautes d innovation

CANADA

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GasBuddy, Innovation Place, Regina, Saskatchewan

Filling Up On SavingsEntrepreneur Jason Toews always knew that someday he would have his own business. He has many fond memories of his younger years, sitting on a combine on the family farm brainstorming possible business ideas with his father.

But when he and his friend, Dustin Coupal, launched the website that eventually evolved into their company, GB Internet Solutions, Toews wasn’t thinking business at all. He was thinking solution.

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GasBuddy, Innovation Place, Regina, Saskatchewan

When Jason Toews moved from Saskatchewan to Minneapolis for his first

job, he quickly noticed something. Gas stations worked very differently in

the US as compared to Canada; fuel prices varied wildly due to competitive

factors. Stations, literally blocks apart, could be selling gas for significantly

less or more.

As a new grad just beginning his career, Toews felt that paying more when

he could have paid less was like throwing away money he couldn’t afford.

What most frustrated Toews was that he had no way to know, usually until

he had already filled up, where to get the best deal.

Toews pondered how people were supposed to know that gas prices were

different just down the street. Realizing that many others were also driving

by stations, likely feeling the same frustration, Toews had an idea. What if

there was a way to post gas price information and search it in real-time to

make filling up the gas tank into a savings proposition?

In 2000, Toews along with a friend, Dustin Coupal, started

a search engine-based website where people could post

gas price information and locations then search for the

best deals. They called it GasBuddy. They looked at the

site as a useful tool where people could connect to share

information that would make a big difference in their

daily commute by saving money.

Both Toews and Coupal kept their

day jobs as they developed the site,

viewing it more as a service than

a business. Each put in an initial

investment of $2000 and worked

on the site from their homes during evenings and on

weekends. Through a combination of word-of-mouth

and leveraging search engines, they attracted users,

early press coverage and revenue via Google and other

ad networks. By 2005 their business had grown enough

for them to quit their full-time jobs and return home to

Regina, Saskatchewan, and set up a full-time business.

As Toews explains, “When we started the company - it

wasn’t to start a business. We thought of it as a cool

thing to offer people, but it didn’t take long to get

bigger. We saw right from the beginning that it had

potential. What we learned was if you put your nose

down and do the work, a good idea can become a

business from its own momentum.”

Today their company, GB Internet Solutions, located

in Innovation Place, Regina, has 38 employees and

over 1 million volunteer spotters inputting gas price information on a daily

basis into a network of gas pricing websites throughout Canada and the

US. In addition to the advertising revenue stream, with 12 years experience

watching gas prices, they now sell data to organizations with large fleets of

vehicles. Not bad for a small idea on how to save money at the pumps.

Through the years, the partners have added features to the GasBuddy site

including trip costs calculators, maps charting gas prices, local statistics and

more. To encourage the volunteer gas spotters who provide the gas price

data, they’ve also gamified GasBuddy, creating a point system users can

exchange for opportunities to win free gas. In 2010, they also created a new

delivery system for GasBuddy, a Smartphone application.

Creating a Smartphone app was a logical next step. The duo had observed

a fundamental transformation was changing the way people accessed and

generated information, especially the younger generation.

Being connected was the new normal.

The next generation had grown up with Smartphones as more than

communication or convenience devices; Smartphones were simply the go-to

choice they turn to for everything, convenience trumping all other devices

such as desktop, lab top, tablet and even camera. The two believed the shift

would be absorbed into the culture and society as Smartphones continued

to dominate the market. Eventually, it would be harder for hold outs not to

change their habits.

Their decision to develop a Smartphone app was bang on. At the start of

2012, GasBuddy had 16 million downloads and Toews estimates the number

will reach 30 million by the end of 2012.

Towes and Coupal are also expanding their business via other solutions,

such as Open Store. Launched in 2009, it offers a website and Smartphone

application for convenience stores that provides an online industry solution.

Says Toews, “With GasBuddy, we created a whole new market. Taking the

GasBuddy concept and the idea of working with localized data, we created a

web solution custom-branded for specific convenience stores, allowing them

to highlight their gas information and run contests and coupons to attract

or increase business.”

The business proposition is different from GasBuddy in that the software is

licensed to companies. The app is downloaded by travellers, allowing them

to find the nearest convenience store location on the road. Convenience

stores use the app to send electronic coupons to potential customers that

can be cashed in at the location. The partners secured their first client

before they actively marketed the software. In 2011, they secured Love’s

Travel Stops, which have over 300 truck stops across the US.

As with GasBuddy, Open Store has created a brand new market. “A

lot of application development is cost prohibitive to do it one-off with

a developer,” explains Toews. “We offer a theme solution. The cost of

development is lower because we don’t redevelop from the ground up. It’s

a win-win in that we can offer a cost-effective solution to customers and

develop a new product line for us.”

While Toews and Coupal continue to grow their business across North

America, they are also harvesting mind power to fuel their expansion

with a local flavour. In their research park office location, they are near the

University of Regina, which offers easy access for university talent.

The park also offers a great space in a like-minded entrepreneurial

environment, which is exactly the kind of place Toews envisioned himself

during his days back on the farm.

“When you are young, you aren’t really sure how you are going to get there,” says Toews. “But when you start something and work hard, suddenly you find yourself there.”

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UNDERSTANDING OUR OCEANS

Can you explain why experts attribute climate change to humans’ activity on earth?

The measurements on our planet clearly demonstrate the entire planet is

warming. As paleontological science shows, ice ages and warming trends have

come and gone, but these are not random events. The trends are a result of

slight changes in the earth’s orbit around the sun, affecting the way solar

energy hits the earth. The phenomenon is measurable and predictable. The

warming trend we are experiencing now is not due to the earth’s orbit. What

we are seeing is an extreme event resulting from carbon dioxide entering the

atmosphere at a pace eight times faster than ever before.

How is the warming trend affecting North America?

Many ways, but one of the most obvious is a large reduction in perennial

white sea ice in the Arctic Ocean. The ice acts as a thermostat for the planet,

reflecting sunlight particularly in the summer. Likely, summertime sea ice may

disappear entirely within the next 15 - 18 years. The ice is an important piece of

the climate system. Its loss may be a tipping point with far-reaching impacts.

Can you explain some of the impacts of the ice loss?

The oceans are taking over the Arctic ice’s job. As ice melts, sunlight going

into the oceans is accelerating. It is easily observed, and there is no question

it is occurring. Warmer water actually expands. This warm water expansion

combined with the entry of fresh water, formerly captured in glaciers, into

ocean waters is helping coastline levels rise by 3 millimetres/yr. Fifty percent

of the world’s population live within 50 miles of coastal areas. As coastlines

become waterlogged or submerged, how we live will have to change.

PH levels are also changing because the ocean has been absorbing 1/3 of the

carbon dioxide created through the burning of fossil fuels. Ocean life forms

rely on a certain environment. Small animals that grow shells and are an

integral part of the food web may not be able to survive. We are observing

some this already at scallop fisheries.

What can we do now?

Even if we changed everything we are doing right now, the warming trend is

locked in. We are left with three choices: we can mitigate, we can cope or we

can suffer.

Mitigation begins by accepting climate change and our responsibility for

causing it as truth. This is sometimes difficult. Even as scientists attempt

to alert the population, they are up against a very well-funded industry

campaign that trades truth for economic gain; data is wrong, misrepresented

and/or manipulated. Climate change is not something we want to be true, so

it is very easy to believe that which puts our mind at ease.

We need to turn things around and see things differently. We start when we

admit that yes, humans have caused this. Fortunately, humans have a unique

ability to think, respond and make change. Change will happen when the

costs of ignoring the situation and the catastrophic outcomes of extreme

weather, tsunamis, moving cities or loss of lives outweigh the economics of

complacency.

It is exciting - albeit scary - times. Our human ability is being challenged to

determine what the world can and will look like. We have the capacity, the

ingenuity and the unrelenting drive. Now we need to accept, move on and

get to it.

Ready to get her hands back into real science and earth observation, world-renowned ocean engineer, Dr. Kate Moran, joined Neptune Canada as Director in 2011, after two years in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy in Washington, DC, advising the Obama administration on the oceans, the Arctic and Global Warming. Dr. Moran’s research focuses on marine geotechnics and its application to the study of paleoclimate, tectonics and ocean floor stability. Moran has led several major oceanographic expeditions, including the first drilling expedition to the Arctic Ocean in 2004.

Dr. Moran shares some difficult truths on climate change, our oceans and the fate of humankind.

Our oceans. Our Fate. Our choice.Neptune Canada, Vancouver Island Technology Park, Victoria, British Columbia

Talking nepTune Canadaneptune Canada was designed by scientists for scientists to address some of the key challenges and questions in the oceans. Traditionally, ocean scientists have relied on infrequent ship cruises or space-based satellites to carry out their research. neptune Canada is the world’s first regional-scale underwater observatory network plugged directly into the internet.

Research at the centre and data collection covers changes in deep water temperatures, tsunami wave modeling, plate tectonics and ocean volcanoes, marine life movement, acoustics and species, gas hydrate activity, and much more. located off the west coast of Vancouver island, British Columbia, in the Vancouver island Technology park, the network

extends across the Juan de Fuca plate, gathering live data from an array of instruments deployed in a broad spectrum of undersea environments. data is transmitted via high-speed fibre optics from the sea floor to a data archival system at the university of Victoria, providing live and archived data.

With continuous data, interactive laboratories and remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) positioned in multiple sites spanning a full range of marine environments, nepTune lets researchers study processes previously beyond the capabilities of traditional oceanography. Via the web, people can view ocean floor views direct from neptune’s underwater cameras while ocean scientists can run deep-water experiment from labs and universities anywhere in the world. www.neptunecanada.ca

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“It’s important to understand what is beneath the ocean. It is the biosphere of our planet; it takes up 70% of the earth’s surface and contains 99% of all life forms. The ocean also gives us 15% of the protein we consume and new life forms are being discovered every day. Within the ocean is a river that begins in the coldest, deepest part of the North Atlantic and travels south around the world, ending up in the North Pacific. This river helps moderate the temperature of the world while the waters absorb the extra heat

generated by greenhouse gases, helping to mitigate climate change.

From tectonic activity of the plates of the ocean floor to the movement of the waves at the top, the ocean has much to tell us about what

is happening and what is to come. We need to know more

about the sea beneath the surface to help us make decisions

about managing greenhouse gases, assessing changes to marine life,

creating better models to predict the impact of natural disasters such as earthquakes and tsunamis and much, much more.”Kate Moran, Executive Director, Neptune Canada

UNDERSTANDING OUR OCEANS

Amit Chakma, University of Western Ontario Research and Development Park, London, Ontario

Our oceans. Our Fate. Our choice.Neptune Canada, Vancouver Island Technology Park, Victoria, British Columbia

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Social CollisionsHow does listening give rise to change? By someone putting together all the stories and envisioning a new ending.

That is exactly what University of New Brunswick President, Eddy Campbell, did. And his new ending culminated into the Pond- Deshpande Centre, a new home for present and future entrepreneurs.Eddy Campbell is a university president intimately

aware of the many goings-on at his campus.

Appointed to a five-year term, one of his first jobs

was leading the university through the development

of a strategic plan. As he led the team through the

process, Campbell heard many interesting stories.

His ears perked up listening to an entrepreneur,

Robert Morrow tell his tale about his MBA at UNB. In

one of Morrow’s classes in the Activator Program (a

course for those specifically interested in start ups)

a professor came in to talk about an idea he had to

create paper-wrap that would not carry an electrical

charge. Morrow thought this was a great idea and

eventually the two spun that idea into Morrow’s

current company, Knowcharge.

Campbell also heard stories from the social side. He

cites a unique promise partnership UNB made with

150 K-8 students in St. John. All of the students have

mentors from the St. John campus who commit an

hour a week to meet with and talk to their assigned

students. There are homework camps, reading

camps and healthy snack camps. A local company,

New Brunswick Pipeline, has donated $80,000 in

scholarships for those students who go on to post-

secondary education.

Then there was the work of the Community Health

Clinic where a group of nurses noticed that certain

parts of the population - new immigrants and those

experiencing homelessness or addictions - were

being under-served by the health system. The nurses

put together a “jump in and do it - worry about the

details later” solution to the problem, creating a

healthcare clinic for these individuals.

Everywhere he looked, Campbell noticed the get

up and go attitude distinctive to innovative and

entrepreneurial individuals, no matter the sector.

A notion began to crystallize in his

mind. “From my perspective, the

social and economic development

of our province includes everything.

Innovation is about more than

technology; it is about an

entrepreneurial culture. And that

was exactly the culture I found at

UNB.”

“The university was very good at

resisting fads and really great at

developing areas of expertise,”

continues Campbell. “Through our

Engineering and Business Faculties,

we had developed great strength

in supporting innovation and

entrepreneurship, with a unique

spin that came from our teaching

and learning environment. Other

Faculties, such as Arts on both

campuses, had similar features.

We were in a great position to

integrate social innovation with

entrepreneurship.”

Working with colleagues, ideas began to bubble up

on how they could more formally create a culture of

entrepreneurship, with entrepreneurship as a defined

career choice during a student’s experience in any

degree program. To help with this task, Campbell

brought together a group of both traditional and

social entrepreneurs to explore these ideas and

embed them in the Strategic Plan. One of the

entrepreneurs who made such a contribution is

Gururaj (Desh) Deshpande, an influential technology

entrepreneur based in Boston who is widely

respected also for his contributions to education

and community.

A big part of the conversation revolved around

social entrepreneurship. “We wanted to create a

synergy between business and social concerns,”

explains Campbell. “Social entrepreneurship

addresses social problems with innovations, new

ways of thinking. We believed we could create an

environment where new commercial enterprises

could be created that are scalable and measurable,

but also allow entities that are intended to effect

significant positive social change.”

At a meeting on April 22, 2011, Campbell visited

Deshpande in Boston to deliver the result: UNB’s

new strategic plan. But the meeting was hijacked by

Deshpande. Desh Deshpande had been doing some

thinking about UNB and the strategic plan, and he

Pond-Deshpande Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick

“We wanted to create

a collision between business

and social concerns.”

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had his own plan to present.

As Campbell recalls, “Desh explained he wanted to

create a centre at UNB that encompassed traditional

economic forms of innovation and enterprise as well

as their analogues on the social side. He offered to

donate $2.5 million, told me he wanted his contribution

matched, and he wanted the centre to be up and

running by the fall. After my shocked faded, I was left

wondering if we had been given a gift or a problem!”

Campbell didn’t spend much time wondering. Rather,

he got busy. The first person that popped into his mind

to match the funds was Gerry Pond. Pond was known

as the godfather of hi-tech start-ups in New Brunswick,

and he was also extremely interested in the social

good and the role social enterprises could play. Once

Pond heard the proposal for the centre, not only was he interested, he

was ready to put up the matching funds.

In record time, Campbell had the concept through and approved by

university senate and board, ready for fall start up, as requested

by Deshpande and as delivered by Campbell and his team, with the

mandate for the centre in place.

Goals for the Pond-Deshpande Centre for Innovation and

Entrepreneurship at the University of New Brunswick include providing

funding and support to advance commercializable ideas that will have

a real impact on society and/or create a social good. Programs for the

centre will foster a culture of innovation, providing tools and resources

necessary to get ideas off the ground.

Says Campbell, “The prospect of taking social sector values around

doing good and the survival instincts of the private sector, then

marrying those with innovation and entrepreneurship is exciting.

There is, of course, a potential for a clash of values from both sides,

and it will be important to monitor and mediate the exchanges that

take place across that divide.”

He has confidence they will get there. They have hired their first

Executive Director, Karina LeBlanc. ”Karina is charged with creating

this entity,” continues Campbell. “In essence, the centre itself is

actually a start up. We know we are going to probably make mistakes

getting there, but just like a start up, we will fix them on the fly.”

Karina LeBlanc, Executive DirectorKarina LeBlanc, Executive Director at the Pond-Deshpande Centre, is hard at

work starting up the new centre - for start ups.

Goals for her first 90 days on the job included clarifying the vision for

the centre and communicating that to faculty, students, successful and

experienced stakeholders, and as she explains, a little bit more.

“I see the centre as playing a role in two key areas,” says LeBlanc. “We

want to generate a greater culture of entrepreneurship as a career choice,

so if someone has the bug, they know to come to us to help incubate that

educational process. We’re also here to help inventors get their ideas off

the ground because often the inventor is not necessarily the person to

navigate invention to market. So part of what we will offer is our knowledge

of the innovation landscape in the province to find a match that can help

commercialize the ideas.”

To date, deliverables from the centre are proposed to include a new activator

program developed in conjunction with UNB’s International Business and

Entrepreneurship Centre focusing on social entrepreneurship, micro-

financing opportunities for non-profits, grant opportunities for students

with social innovation ideas, match-making between innovators and those

with commercialization skill-sets, entrepreneurial boot camps, a traveling

road show educating high school students on the centre and entrepreneurial

thinking, and more. Already, people are pointing to the centre and noting work

is far beyond planning and well into doing.

Not bad for an idea that is barely a year old.

“Right now, our scale is small but active,” LeBLanc continues. “We are a start

up, and it is important that we act as one. We need to be testing, changing and

following the same path of entrepreneurship we are promoting. We’ll learn

what works best to develop the triangle - people, money and ideas - that helps

innovation take off. And then we will take it and duplicate it in other places.”

Pond-Deshpande Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick

“We wanted to create

a collision between business

and social concerns.”

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Innovations constantly fall through

the cracks. The gap between discovery

and sale is wide and expensive and, for

universities, not a defined mandate.

Making ideas into product often

requires years of research and testing,

notwithstanding time for government

compliance, regulations and more.

But if a university’s contribution to

the world is to take the knowledge its

members produce and convert that to

societal good, at some point that entails

commercialization. Sam Visaisouk,

Entrepreneur in Residence at the

University of Waterloo, is the current

middle man helping UW do just that.

“There exists a true disconnect between

academia and business,” explains

Visaisouk. “Research happens without

a commercial end goal. Universities are

about proving concept, not about selling

or developing research for a specific

business market.”

Conversely, in business, although many

companies want innovation, either they

don’t know where to find it or don’t

have the funds required for research

and development. More often, they are

positioned to make a product for sale

rather than find new solutions. Without

a direct line to research, finding

and integrating potentially radical

technology is difficult, if not impossible.

Visaisouk’s job at the university is to

create connections between the two.

His role is to search amongst UW’s

IP for technology that has problem-

solving potential and business viability.

Successful match-making initiates the

commercialization sequence.

“We work towards spinning off a start

up with the skills to take the IP out of

academia into the world for future sale

and good. Once a concept is sound,

someone has to verify it works, can

be built and can be scaled up for the

market. That takes funds and people.”

Visaisouk does know that “nothing

happens overnight and there a lots

of no’s before a yes.” But he also

recognizes, “the potential for success

is certainly helped by the fact that it

starts at a university in tune with where

the world is going.”

Sam Visaisouk helped make two plus two equal a technology start

up, Tyromer. While reviewing the University of Waterloo’s tech

transfer files, he recognized the potential for UW professor Costas Tzoganakis’ patented

process. The world will be a little cleaner for it.

Tyromer, David Johnston Research + Technology Park, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario

Visaisouk + tzoganakis = startup

“I’m not the brain, but I have good peripheral vision.”

Inventions don’t always become products, no matter how much good they might do the world. Unfortunately, the cost involved in taking an

idea to market is often not a profitable exercise. And at universities, where innovation and invention are natural outcomes to new

knowledge, many answers to big problems end up gathering dust.

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Tyromer, David Johnston Research + Technology Park, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario

Visaisouk + tzoganakis = startupTires are manufactured with virgin rubber subjected

to a vulcanization process using sulphur to harden

the material, giving it the properties required in tire

production. Until now, there was not a process to

reverse the vulcanization that was not expensive or

did not require toxic materials. Instead, tire recycling

operations focused on grinding tires into tire crumb,

which is energy intensive and has few applications.

While working at the University of Waterloo,

Professor Costas Tzoganakis had a visit from a tire

recycling operation. They wanted to know if there

was a way to improve rubber. That visit began

Tzoganakis’s exploration into the use of carbon

dioxide to help break sulphur bonds. He found a

method that worked and filed a patent in 2003 for a

revolutionary rubber devulcanization process. The

rubber from the process could be mixed with virgin

rubber during tire production.

After that, Tzoganakis got back to the business of

teaching.

Tzoganakis explains, “When the

patent was originally filed, the

university did not have any part of

it. But technology requires a vast

array of expertise and money to

bring it to birth. I elected to turn

it over to the university because

I could not take it to the next

level, but I thought someday the

university could.”

Then Visaisouk arrived on

campus. Nosing around the

technology transfer office,

Visaisouk reviewed Tzoganakis’

patent, saw its potential and knew

what to do. Utilizing relationships

with the R + T Park, government

funding agencies and business

partners, he got the funding to

launch a company that could take

the patented process to market.

“Sam saw the value in the technology,” recalls

Tzoganakis. “Before I knew it, he had launched

Tyromer. I became re-involved working on

technology and optimization to increase the

production rate, ensuring the process was

economical, while Sam focused on the business

end.” Today, Visaisouk and Tzoganakis are already

working to install their first plant.

Their efforts will make a huge impact on the

recycling and reuse of rubber. The timing is right.

Aside from obvious environmental benefits, the

price of natural rubber has surged due to too many

rainy years and ever-increasing demand. It also

happens not to be an offshore option, with the cost

of moving rubber making shipment prohibitive.

Plants must be local, recycling rubber at the place

of origin. That’s an extra win for a world where

offshore thinking is commonplace, regardless of

environmental cost.

You can take the research out of this professor, but

in Tzoganakis’ case, you can’t take him out of the

classroom. Even as he works on revolutionizing the

rubber business, he continues to teach full-time. To

fit it all in, Tzoganakis says, “You have to be a multi-

tasker, very efficient and well-supported. And you

need to work with good people. Those - I’ve got.”

A single tire weighs about 25 pounds. A

billion tires are thrown out every year. 95%

of this waste can’t be recycled. So what

happens? 50% is burned to generate

cheap, but dirty, energy while the balance is

destined for landfills. University of Waterloo

professor Costas Tzoganakis is working to

change that story.

“You have to be a multi-tasker and very efficient. But you also need to work with good people. Those - I’ve got.”

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Imagine having access to locally grown, clean and sustainable produce 365 days a year.

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Gregg Curwin, Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer

of TruLeaf Sustainable Agriculture Limited, became aware of

the healthcare crisis from the inside out. After being in the

clinical and surgical field for 18 years with his own medical

distribution company, he saw crisis hitting overdrive.

Curwin observed there were significant issues around chronic

disease that could not be solved with prescription pills. What

he also noticed was a profound amount of evidence that

indicated the consumption of bad food combined with lack of

exercise and toxic environment generated a lot of illness.

With a growing desire to help, Curwin sat on boards covering

topics such as health, food strategy for hospitals and

schools, and food projects to better understand the missing

link between healthcare and

nutrition. Eventually, that link

led him to the source of medical

funding: private, profit-based

industry. What Curwin saw was

a system that was incapable

of and resistant to change.

What it needed was direct and

blunt discussions. Yet speaking

contrarian viewpoints was not

enough for him.

“Once I immersed myself in the health system,” explains

Curwin, “it mattered that it bothered me. I quickly saw the

issues and problems as I watched budgets continue to rise

to treat increases in disease. But focusing the solution on

treatment is backwards and cost-prohibitive, especially when

there is a logical solution: prevention. Food can help - bad

food can cause problems, but good food can fix problems.”

In 2009, Curwin left the medical field to launch TruLeaf

Sustainable Agriculture. His intention was to give healthcare

the medicine he thought could help: nutrient rich, locally

grown, and economically priced food.

“I made a decision that I was going to start a company that

could help solve the problem, skipping over working within

the system,” says Curwin. “I believe everyone wants to eat

clean, nutritious food, and many understand the importance.

I wanted to focus on the problems of people who eat too

much of the wrong foods in western societies and those who

do not eat enough at all in the developing world.”

Curwin also kept Canada’s short growing season in mind.

His challenge was how to meet growing demand for fresh

nutritious food without environmental disaster and food

degradation. Far away foods spend an average of 7-10 days in

transport. By the time food reaches the table, nutrient value

is compromised, not to mention carbon cost incurred to the

environment.

“Getting good food to the table faster makes more than good

sense,” says Curwin. “When you add in climate change and its

impact on agricultural production, it is almost like the perfect

storm is brewing in a very worrisome way.”

What that meant was finding a way to grow nutritious food

locally and year round. That was the elusive carrot he was

chasing. He worked on the assumption that the world is going

to need a predictable supply of plants - all demanding safer

compounds in a cost effective, efficient, pesticide-free and

controlled environments closer to the place of consumption

with maximum efficiency in resources of land and water.

Curwin felt it was important to work with a partner. Working

in development with the Nova Scotia Agricultural College,

they developed a smart plant system. The system integrates

current growing technology from the hydroponic world,

with new innovations with LED lighting, underpinned with IP

around precision control growing of specific plants through

light, water, temperature and nutrients in a high yield multi

level format.

“We went to the Agricultural College to create an optimal

R&D partnership,” he explains. “To make nutrition a part of

the solution will require government policy firmly behind it.

Government is just starting to look at it and understand the

business case for local sustainable foods - economically and

health wise.”

Currently, TruLeaf has an R&D facility operating as a micro-

firm to demonstrate the value proposition of growing plants

commercially on a large scale with their system. The company

plans to open their first large-scale Vertical Farm in 2013 in

Atlantic Canada, working in tandem with a large supermarket

chain. They also have active conversations going in Moscow,

the Arctic, and the Bahamas, locations that import foods

from far distances.

In his heart, Curwin believes medical policy and knowledge

will eventually move to food as a line of treatment, segueing

with a self-care tide as individuals come to their own similar

conclusions about the role food and nutrition play in good

health. He believes the consumer will begin to demand

change. He plans to make sure his company is working one

step ahead of that movement.

TruLeaf Sustainable, AgriTECH Park, Bible Hill, Nova Scotia

Few would disagree that Canada is facing a looming healthcare crisis that needs fixing from the bottom up. The question is where and how to start tackling the problem. Entrepreneur Gregg Curwin has begun to face the situation head on with a new twist to a tried and true saying: “You are what you eat - and where it comes from matters.” If things work out, his Nova Scotia-based venture may start a wave of change in how and what we eat that will roll across the country, providing nutritious, economically-priced foods grown in the same region they are consumed - year round.

Real food. Real close.

Finding a way to grow nutritious food

locally, year round was the carrot

Curwin was chasing.

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Cleantech Fund LP, MaRS Discovery District, Toronto, Ontario

Cleaning Up Climate ChangeTom Rand has been passionate about the

environment for as long as he can remember. And

after founding two successful businesses, Voice

Courier and VCI Funds, he understood the many

challenges entrepreneurs face. In 2005, after selling

his company, Rand joined MaRS as a Practice Lead,

founding a cleantech practice that married his

entrepreneurial experiences and his passion.

The cleantech sector focuses on ventures that are

based on low-carbon technologies and supporting

infrastructures like energy and energy efficiency. The

new practice at MaRS provided support and a range

of services to help entrepreneurs in the

sector launch and grow their companies.

It wasn’t long after the launch of

the practice that companies came

flocking, along with someone else.

In 2011, Murray McCaig was looking

to make a positive contribution

to the world. He had first-hand

experience with the toll modern

society was taking on the

environment.

In his youth, McCaig was on the

Canadian Wind Surfing Olympic team.

Out on the ocean, he saw up close the

amount of garbage in the waters and

the destruction of natural

wetlands due to

general development

of coastlines. Once

he was working,

he travelled

to developing

countries where he

noticed extremes

in pollution levels.

McCaig went on to

found and sell two

successful start

ups, Spotnik and

Envirotower,

before working

in private

equity in New

York building

a global water

business. He

returned to

Toronto for

good.

Looking to make a postive contribution by assisting

with early stage cleantech companies, McCaig

connected with MaRS as a volunteer advisor,

sharing his experiences as a start up CEO. MaRS was

the perfect place to realize his goal to help clean

technologies get to market and create meaningful

change. McCaig and Rand met at MaRS and

discovered they shared similar philosophies around

start ups in the cleantech space.

McCaig was very impressed with the number of

interesting companies in the cleantech sector coming

through the doors at MaRS. But he also noticed

something that bothered him.

“There was a common issue around venture capital

in the cleantech sector,” explains McCaig. “Not many

investors want to take the risk investing in early

stage companies. Tom noticed this too. As former

entrepreneurs, we quickly figured out this was due to

a combination of factors.

But showing value was a conundrum for the

emerging field. Entrepreneurs needed to bring value,

but in order to do that, they required the capital to

get to the next stage and to market.

It soon became apparent to Rand and McCaig that

no one in the venture capital world was willing to

fund the capital needed to get there. And that was

a problem. But Rand and McCaig soon thought up a

solution.

Working with MaRS, they had access to enormous

firepower and connections to capital, corporate

partners, a pipeline of cleantech start ups as well as

the knowledge and experience to broker meetings to

create a qualified deal flow.

Explains Rand, “Murray and I both saw that cleantech

was a large and growing piece of the economy, and

we needed to support and develop it. We came up

with the idea to establish a strategic fund that would

fill the gap for early stage companies in the MaRS

Two successful Toronto businessmen met at a crossroads in their careers and discovered a mutual passion to make a difference.That culminated into the MaRS Cleantech Fund LP, a new model of collaboration between MaRS Discovery District and the private sector.

If things work out as they hope, the cleantech businesses they help fund and support may one day provide solutions to some of the biggest problems the world is now facing.

Too many venture capitalists are financial, with little experience or understanding of early

stage companies, let alone a new sector like

cleantech. They needed to see real economic value in the sector.”

MURRAY MCCAIG, SENIOR CLEANTEC ADVISOR, MARS

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Rand and McCaig acknowledge that

they have a couple of strong advantages

with the networks they bring with

them as well as their relationship with

MaRS. They are able to take advantage of a

pipeline that is ready to go while relying

on the assistance of MaRS in nurturing the

company, essentially de-risking the

investment.

Cleantech Fund LP, MaRS Discovery District, Toronto, Ontario

pipeline. The fund is a reaction to the risk

adversity of investors, and we’re using the

fund to help solve that problem.”

In 2012, Rand and McCaig formally launched

the $30 million MaRS Cleantech Fund LP. The

fund sits outside of but is in partnership with

MaRS, a new model for collaboration between

MaRS and the private sector. The privately

backed fund will focus on early-stage

cleantech companies in the MaRS Cleantech

Practice pipeline.

Already, the fund has some wins, providing

support to cleantech companies such as

Green Mantra, developers of a proprietary

catalytic process to economically produce

commercial quality waxes and fuels by

recycling plastics, and Smart Energy

Instruments, developers of game-changing

measurement technologies for the

burgeoning “Smart Grid” to address energy-

environment challenges.

Cleantech Economics Tom Rand is Senior Cleantech advisor at MaRS Discovery District and author of kick the Fossil Fuel Habit: 10 Clean Technologies to Save Our world. He has also helped to build North america’s greenest hotel, Planet Traveller.

Rand talks to Canada Now about the current climate situation, why no one is listening and how change will arrive.

“We are facing the potential heat death of our planet.

We are currently on track for six degrees of warming

in this century. The experts are talking about it, but

nobody is listening with much attention or interest.

The question is why?

The reality is that it is hard to take on a real belief

because it gives us no pleasure or comfort in

admitting the truth. Our fundamental belief is the

world of tomorrow will be better; climate change

threatens that belief.

The mind will look for any and all ways it can to

avoid beliefs that make it uncomfortable. That

natural human inclination is amplified by a well-paid

and sophisticated industry using PR to whitewash

the truth about climate change. It is not difficult to

understand that sowing seeds of doubt falls on

fertile minds.

But even when we open our eyes to the

truth, the problem in front of us is so

deep and so endemic that fixing

it will be the hardest thing we

have ever done. Once you

realize how big and difficult

it is to solve - considering

the capital and coordination

required to change a fossil

fuel-powered society -

throwing your hands in the

air and choosing to ignore

the situation seems a fitting

response.

where to start?

Climate change is a systemic problem that will impact

everything including current economics. And the

traditional economic model deeply embedded in

everything is a system incapable of dealing with the

situation. Economic models have not caught up to the

big problem. It is complex and non-linear.

It is our generations’ turn to make the world a

better place. There are not two sides to this story;

decarbonizing our economy is not optional. We have

to make moral decisions about our future. With

enormous problems come enormous solutions and

incredible new economic

possibilities. Innovative

companies with research

and IP can be the

sources of enormous

economic possibilities

and the solutions

we need to clean

up the world. Those

organizations who

understand the value

of new markets in a

cleantech space are

where and how we will

start to build the

solutions.”

TOM RAND, SENIOR CLEANTECH ADVISOR, MARS

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www.discoveryparks.com

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Government of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario

Minister Goodyear Talks the Business of InnovationThe Honourable Gary Goodyear, Minister of State (Science and Technology) (Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario), spoke with Canada NOW on the country, innovation and the role of research parks in the mix.

Our long-term economic

competitiveness depends on

supporting businesses that

innovate and create jobs. Our

government has invested in science

and technology, not only to create

jobs and growth at home, but also

to encourage ingenuity for the

benefit of this country and the

world.

The competition today for research,

talent and ideas is global. A successful innovation system requires

a mix of complementary elements. The role of government is to

establish marketplace policies and frameworks that provide the

climate for private-sector competition and investment. We are

as a Government committed to supporting advanced research at

universities and other leading research institutions to remain at

the forefront of technological changes and innovation.

In the 21st century economy, it is increasingly important to create

high-performing and dynamic hubs of innovative activity, where

innovative ideas can emerge and be brought into use through

practice and commercialized goods and services.

University research parks provide companies with specialized

research facilities and expose them to a critical mass of ideas,

expertise and a pool of highly qualified talent. Research parks

play a key role in promoting a given institution’s research and

development through industry partnerships and facilitating the

transfer of technology and business skills between university and

industry teams.

Engagement with firms within research parks could shorten

the time for technology commercialization for university-

based innovations. As the activities of these research parks

grow, I expect we will see a positive impact in terms of the

commercialization and application of new knowledge and

facilitating the entry of highly qualified people into industry.

Working in such close proximity reduces costs, but more

importantly it creates the opportunity to share strategic

information on topics from technology and business development

to investment and funding support. Given the increased focus

on research partnerships, Canada’s research parks may play a

valuable role in providing a hub to facilitate new partnerships, to

foster research collaborations, and bring new ideas to market.

The competition today for research,

talent & ideas is global.

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Green Imaging Technologies Inc., Knowledge Park, Fredericton, New Brunswick

Stepping Stones to Commercialization

Step One: PassionDr. Bruce BalcomIn the late 1980s, when Dr. Bruce Balcom started to think

seriously about Magnetic Resonance Imaging research, the

field was blossoming in the medical world. MRI technology

was exceptionally well-suited to imaging people. But what

Balcom wanted to explore was imaging other materials, on

less obvious subjects than humans.

He was thinking about porous

materials, such as concrete. But

then, he began to think about

porous rocks.

At first glance, rock seems

a far less suitable subject

matter compared to humans.

But although analytical

analysis might be difficult, it

was not impossible. Because

rock cores are porous, often

containing water and oil, the

possibility for imaging existed.

In 1993, Balcom was charged with developing a state-of-

the-art MRI lab at the University of New Brunswick. As

Balcom established the lab, he brought in research and

infrastructure funding allowing further, more in depth

exploration of alternate MRI applications. Balcom’s early

ideas were well recognized academically, and he was also

awarded the prestigious NSERC Steacie Fellowship for

2000/2002, of which only four were awarded nationally

per year.

“One of the outcomes of university research is research

papers,” explains Balcom. “If the ideas that are the subject

of these research papers have commercial or potential merit,

at a very early stage we apply for patent protection. If the

idea is good, we can follow up with it later.”

Balcom’s thriving lab began turning out papers, students

and ideas. Many of the ideas generated in the lab had

potential, and a few in particular seemed almost ready to

go. Balcom and his colleagues recognized that potential,

and they were also astute enough to know inventing IP and

commercializing IP requires entirely different skill sets.

Luckily, Balcom happened to know just who to reach out to

get things moving in a commercialization direction, Derrick

Green, a former PhD student Balcom had supervised in the

UNB MRI lab.

Step Two: PeopleJill and Derrick GreenIn 2005, Balcom made a call to Derrick Green to propose a

start up venture to commercialize the technology coming out

of the lab.

Derrick and wife Jill, both engineers, were well established

in promising careers in Cleveland, Ohio. But they had stayed

in regular contact with Balcom on return visits to their home

province. Although they were taken aback at his pitch, they

were interested enough to mull over the concept of coming

back to launch an entrepreneurial venture.

The couple visited UNB to explore how a business

arrangement might work between a start up and the lab as

well as what support was available to help launch. Together

with Balcom, his lab, and the university, they developed

a framework agreement that laid out how research from

the lab would flow into a company. The

agreement allowed for

open communication

necessary to

commercialize research.

The Greens then

examined the lab’s IP

and honed in on one idea

in particular, visualizing

rock core samples with

MRI technology.

Being imaginative has a lot to do with doing what others are not doing, especially in a research environment. Often, one lone person starts the engine. But commercializing the ideas that spin out of doing things differently takes a team.

LEFT TO RIGHT:

DERRICK GREEN

JILL GREEN

DR. BRUCE BALCOM

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Green Imaging Technologies Inc., Knowledge Park, Fredericton, New Brunswick

Stepping Stones to Commercialization Delving into market potential, the Greens saw the idea held a lot of

promise in real-world application as a product for the oil and gas

industry.

The process for locating and developing new oil reservoirs involves

core sampling, and analysis takes a lot of time, money and

industry expertise. In hard to reach locations or difficult extraction

materials, the oil harvested from a reservoir needs to justify the

upfront infrastructure investment.

Using MRI on rock core samples had potential to offer new

measurements for the industry that were faster, shortening the

analysis time frame while providing more accurate data The

Greens selected the IP knowing there was a sound business

case for further development. In 2006, they moved back to New

Brunswick and launched Green Imaging Technologies Inc. They hit

the ground running.

Their first task was to develop the product concept; proof of

concept is a stop-gap process that sits between research and

getting a product to market. Jill Green explains, “There is a lot

of heavy lifting in the middle that requires a team and a lot of

expertise. We worked in tandem with Dr. Balcom and UNB to do

test measurements. That trial gave us the technical standing that

would give us a product to sell.”

When they achieved that goal, the Greens spent the next six years

developing a software product to operate the MRI instrument

and convert data acquired in core analysis specifically for the oil

and gas sector. Working in partnership with Oxford Instruments,

who hold the largest share of MRI

instrumentation in the rock core

market, they launched their first

product in 2011.

Step Three: ProductGreen Imaging Technologies Inc.Today, Green Imaging Technologies Inc. is making a mark in the

oil and gas industry with Jill Green, Chief Executive Officer, and

Derrick Green, President and Chief Technology Officer, at the helm.

To date, Green Imaging is the first and only company in the

industry to employ MRI technology for rock core analysis. The

technology is most useful in rock formations, such as shale, where

extraction is difficult.

The analysis is not only more accurate and detailed, it is faster

than other analysis methods and does not require experts to

analyze the data. Rock core samples are put in the MRI instrument

to provide data to help determine how much petroleum is in the

ground and how best to get it. The MRI measures the quantity

of fluid present, water and hydrocarbons, and the porous

environment.

In an industry that is losing scientific expertise

to retirement demographics, the product

also solves yet another problem. Explains Jill

Green, “Right now there is a growing gap in

the sector, with fewer experienced scientists

and new hires yet to make up the deficit. Our

software fills that gap. It takes complicated

MRI information and allows non-experts to

do the measurements and compile useful

information for the companies, freeing up

experts to work in other areas.”

Working in partnership with UNB, Balcom and

Oxford Instruments, the Greens are currently

looking at other IP from Balcom’s lab to

develop into products.

Balcom and the Greens agree the credit for

Green Imaging’s success must be shared with the university. As

Balcom points out, “It is difficult for one person to do everything

- you really need the whole package to achieve a worthwhile

end. We connected the university and lab to business and to

industry. Green Imaging’s success shows and will continue to

show the importance of pure research and how it keeps the whole

commercialization system fed from the ground up.”

“It is difficult for

one person to do

everything - you

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package to achieve

a worthwhile end.

We connected the

university and lab

to business and

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The measurement of bacteria in drinking water is

a tricky proposition at the best of times. Part of

the Walkerton story involved a time lapse between

noticing, confirming and analyzing the problem.

Essentially, it came down to the people and time

elements around water testing.

When a problem occurs at a water plant, a water

sample is taken to a lab for analysis, which requires 18 -

24 hours to complete, not including the transportation

time. As per government water safety regulations,

tests can only be conducted in certified labs. In remote

communities, samples have to travel further to a lab,

delaying testing.

Analysis is also subject to a lab’s hours of business,

often regular Monday to Friday day hours, a

phenomenon particularly common in smaller

communities. When problems occur on weekends or

during the night, delays can create health havoc.

The process is also impacted by other factors. At the

lab, samples are placed in an incubator for 18 - 24

hours. Once incubation is complete, the sample must

be analyzed visually. The process is just complicated

enough that the analysis must be conducted by a

trained technician who is experienced in checking the

water for glow, specks, colour and other criteria.

What happened in Walkerton involved a sequence of

delays that culminated in catastrophic consequences.

It was clear something had to happen to avoid future

tragedies. Canada thought the same thing, and they

put the quest for a solution into overdrive. Precarn,

a non-profit group in Ottawa that had been funding

other high-tech research, was one of the organizations

charged with finding and funding water testing

research projects to respond.

In 1999 Dr. Stephen Brown, professor at Queen’s University, became a part of a new, informal research collective comprised of individuals from across the campus. Each member shared a common interest: water.Shortly after the group’s first few meetings, the Walkerton tragedy occurred, setting off a series of events that eventually resulted in a new approach to water testing.

Endetech, Innovation Park at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario

Endetech

IT IS OFTEN SAID THAT ADvERSITY AND TRAGEDY ARE FERTILE

BREEDING GROUNDS FOR INNOvATION. THE EvENTS AT

WALkERTON, ONTARIO IN MAY, 2000 - IN WHICH A PATHOGENIC

STRAIN OF E. COLI BACTERIA CONTAMINATED THE TOWN’S WATER

DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM, CAUSING 7 DEATHS AND THOUSANDS

OF ILLNESSES - LED TO ONE OF THE MOST SIGNIFICANT PUBLIC

HEALTH INvESTIGATIONS IN CANADA’S HISTORY.

THIS TRAGEDY FUELED

THE SEARCH FOR NEW

TECHNOLOGIES TO MONITOR

WATER SYSTEMS AND BETTER

PROTECT PUBLIC HEALTH.

DR. PETER GALLANT

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Dr. Brown’s collective put a proposal together

applying for funding. Their goal for the

project was to explore whether current

research on toxicity of oil spills on fish could

be reworked via analysis equipment to

detect bacteria in water. By the summer of

2000, Precarn had approved their proposal.

Soon after, Dr. Brown’s group had additional

resources and funds committed, bringing the

total to 6 million for the 3-year project. They

also had a second well-defined goal in place -

commercialization.

“Because of Walkerton, we were working

in one direction,” explains Dr. Brown. “By

2002/2003, we had our first proof-of-concept

prototypes and formed a separate company,

Pathogen Detection Systems (PDS). Then we

had to make a decision - did we want to learn

to become business people or did we want

to bring someone in? We realized we could

not afford the wait for one of us to learn the

business skills. We needed to find someone.”

The group was sitting on important

technology, and the faster it got to the

market the better for public health. Also,

others were working on water technologies,

and they wanted to get there first.

Working with each other’s contacts

and Parteq Innovations, Queen’s

commercialization arm located in the

institution’s research park, they eventually

found Peter Gallant. Gallant was an electrical

engineer who also had experience with his

own start ups. In fact, he had everything

they needed to take the technology the next

step - a PhD plus business and research

experience. Once Gallant was in place as their

president, they were able to focus exclusively

on developing the technology.

Dr. Brown and the group acknowledged there

were many potential break-down points

during the water analysis process. They

wanted to decrease those risks by automating

the process while ensuring results were quick

and accurate. By 2003, they had attained

their goal, developing a prototype advanced

water quality testing system with the

potential to revolutionize water monitoring.

The system is comprised of a machine that

performs the full analysis process. A water

sample is poured into a cartridge, and

then inserted into the machine where it is

incubated and results are then interpreted -

by the machine. With an automated system,

water can be monitored as effectively, but

without limitation to how often, when or

where. The machine can be located anywhere,

and since it doesn’t require a technician for

analysis, that location could be onsite at

water treatment facilities, in close proximity

to sample sources.

On the business end, PDS developed in

tandem with the technology. Although

PDS still remains located at the Queen’s

Innovation Park, the company was acquired

by multi-national water leader, Veolia Water

Solutions & Technology, and now operates

within a separate unit in the company called

ENDETEC.

Next step is waiting for regulation to catch

up to the technology, so the solution can be

put to work. Currently, all water analysis must

occur in government approved labs. Because

the new method is automated and does

not require a lab expert, it can be located

anywhere. But that is not how things work

from a regulatory perspective.

Dave Dolphin, Managing Director at ENDETEC

explains, “The trend towards more innovation

in the water sector has been driven by

many factors - pharmaceuticals and other

contaminants in water, intensity of resource

usage for treating and pumping of water,

chemicals and more. But even as we face

these increased stresses, we have to apply

innovation safely, making sure we never put

public health at risk. Integrating innovation

requires government to adapt regulations

carefully and prudently. This is a must.”

Dolphin is working closely with federal and

provincial governments to work through

changes that will include technology

adoption. In 2009/20010, Ontario developed

the Water Opportunities Act to enable

legislation for water technology acceleration.

Dolphin is a member of the board. He

continues, “The government’s job is to

protect health, so you want a regulator that

works on a process that does not lower the

bar in order to move forward. I have found

there is an incredible level of openness with

the government to adopt technology and

work on the compliance laws that will allow

change to happen - without risking public

health.”

Things have been progressing very well.

Dolphin’s conversation with the province

now includes discussion beyond their newest

innovation, making room for what is yet to

come.

Endetech, Innovation Park at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario

Endetech AN IP EVOLUTION2000: In response to the walkerton tragedy, a

team at Queen’s university developed an innovative

approach to detecting E.coli and coliform bacteria

in drinking water supplies, dramatically improving the

often lengthy turnaround time of microbiological test

results on samples sent to laboratories by enabling

automated, on-site analysis.

2003: Pathogen Detection Systems, Inc. was formed

in 2003 to commercialize the technology licensed

to them on an exclusive, worldwide basis by Parteq

Innovations, the technology-transfer office at Queen’s

university. ELORIN (the forerunner to Kingston-based

Launch Lab) provided access to critical research support

funding to develop the core technology from proof-of-

concept to prototypes that could be demonstrated to

potential customers and investors.

2003 - 2006: angel investor and venture capital

funding enabled the company to achieve several

critical start-up milestones, including refinement of

the technology, successful field trials of a prototype

instrument, first patents, and initial approvals of the new

method by the Ontario Ministry of the Environment, one

of the most influential drinking water regulators in the

world.

2009: The company had a viable technology, but

faced several major, capital-intensive challenges

to enter the marketplace, challenges that venture

investors can be wary of - such as often long and

unpredictable regulatory approval processes and

the potential for long sales cycles in the notoriously

conservative drinking water industry. The company was

acquired by global water leader, Veolia Water Solutions

& Technology, in 2009.

2011: with the support of Sustainable Development

Technologies Canada (SDTC) and the Ontario

Ministry of Economic Development and Innovation,

the company is now ENDETEC™. Based at the

Queen’s University Innovation Park, ENDETEC has

become the global sensor platform for Veolia Water,

engaging a global marketplace for its technology. The

company recently completed development of its lead

microbiological testing instrument and is developing

global demonstration sites and sales channels through

the Veolia network.

2012: ENDETEC continues to execute major

research contracts in conjunction with researchers

at Queen’s university, and recently completed a

successful project with the support of kingston-

based green Center Canada. The expertise in water

quality monitoring developed within ENDETEC™ and

the broader company has led to joint development

of additional water quality monitoring solutions that

will soon be protecting drinking water for Ontarians,

Canadians, and ultimately the world.

By: Dr. Peter Gallant

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London, Ontario, Canada’s new Advanced Manufacturing Park will reinvent the way we manufacture in the renewable energy, transportation, building materials and medical device sectors.

Strategically located on North America’s busiest highway, the 130-acre Park specializes in emerging technologies related to solar energy, wind engineering, lightweight composite materials and advanced manufacturing processes.

It builds on 20 years of successful economic impact by Western’s multi-campus Research Park – home to more than 100 innovative organizations and two of Canada’s largest commercialization centres.

Having already attracted more than $50 million to establish the Fraunhofer Project Centre and the WindEEE Research Institute, the Park assembles in one place the world’s premiere facilities for developing, validating and industrial-scale testing of lightweight materials, products and related applications.

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London, Ontario, Canada’s new Advanced Manufacturing Park will reinvent the way we manufacture in the renewable energy, transportation, building materials and medical device sectors.

Strategically located on North America’s busiest highway, the 130-acre Park specializes in emerging technologies related to solar energy, wind engineering, lightweight composite materials and advanced manufacturing processes.

It builds on 20 years of successful economic impact by Western’s multi-campus Research Park – home to more than 100 innovative organizations and two of Canada’s largest commercialization centres.

Having already attracted more than $50 million to establish the Fraunhofer Project Centre and the WindEEE Research Institute, the Park assembles in one place the world’s premiere facilities for developing, validating and industrial-scale testing of lightweight materials, products and related applications.

Our team includes a growing list of private-sector companies and partner institutions from around the world who are committed to working in real-time on industry projects that have impact on job creation, wealth, the environment and quality of life for Canadians. Join our team. Transform your company. Visit us today.

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At the Association of University Research Parks’ (AURP) 2011 international conference in New Orleans, Quebec-based organization, Saint-Hyacinthe Science Park, was presented the excellence award for the Best Emerging Research/Science Park Award.

Ten other science parks worldwide were nominated for the award. In winning, the park became the first in Quebec and the third in Canada to be granted an award at the prestigious competition, which marked its 16th anniversary this year.

AURP President Harold Strong explained at the awards that,”The strength of a university research park is its impact on the community and its ability to drive economic growth, create jobs and improve the quality of life.” In recognizing Saint-Hyacinthe Science Park as the 2011 award winner, Strong said of the park, “We know that the progress of the park has only just begun and look forward to the continued success and community impact of Saint-Hyacinthe Technopole.”

The Saint-Hyacinthe Science Park, covering biotechnology, agri-food, veterinary and agri-environment, is one of North America’s first technology parks exclusively dedicated to the bio-food sector.

Launched in 2007, the park’s goals are to build synergy between the spheres of research and industry while supporting innovation in the sector. The park was developed around two major research and higher education institutions, Université de Montréal’s Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (off the main campus) and the federal Food Research and Development Centre.

Although still in its early years, the technology park already includes two business incubators, a biotechnology development centre, 22 research chairs and centres, and 17 development support organizations, all associated with the agri-food industry.

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“Research parks are an essential component of

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parts that also acts as a magnet.

Innovation drives discovery. Canada’s research

parks have established themselves not as

experiments, but as a vital part of what we are

attempting to do to increase the prosperity

and competitiveness of this country through

innovation.

Research and technology parks create a

clustering phenomenon that brings proximity

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with one another and have regular formal

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Innovation can be the brilliant idea that comes

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time. These are the gears.

At the same time, by nature of their association

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parks move back and forth between as needed,

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Research parks are two-way streets that allow

innovation to happen. They draw talent and

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erase the expectations of what talent needs to

do and opens it up to the wonderful curiosity of

how we can do things better.”

His Excellency Governor General of Canada, David Johnston, Ottawa, Ontario

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FrederictonIn Fredericton, we don’t just lay out the welcome mat. We’ve rolled out a world-class business park, built for smart companies looking to grow and succeed in Atlantic Canada’s most award-winning small city for business.

The Knowledge Park, home to the national Centre of Excellence in Advanced Learning Technology, provides the intellectual infrastructure and innovative environment for businesses to thrive. This is where companies come to catalyze their ideas into game-changing products and services.

Named one of the most cost-competitive places to do business on the eastern seaboard by KPMG, Fredericton can add international recognition from the prestigious fDi Magazine for best business investment strategy in the Americas to their impressive list of awards.

So if you’re ready to build on our success, contact us at: [email protected] or [email protected]

fredericton.ca/economicdevelopment 1-877-460-8326

knowledgepark.ca • 1 (506) 462-5021

knows that teamwork wins the game.

The Innoparc is a new park in science and technology in Levis and the first space of higher learning both of which are part of a sustainable development perspective in Quebec. The Innoparc is designed to offer businesses an advance site resolutely distinctive with an unsurpassed quality of work/life environment. The Innopark offers a total of 2 million pc in the first phase of development and 5million pc term. Organizations of the following areas are preferred, although the city of Levis is open to any company contributing to the economic development of science and technology sectors: energy efficienty, robotics, agricultural biotechnology, nutraceuticals and functional foods, and transport logistics.

A f f i l i At i O n :

Ville De lévisl O C At i O n :

Québec

INNOPARC DE LÉVISwww.innoparc.ca

AgriTECH Park is Atlantic Canada’s “Bio-economy Village” serving as the commercialization wing of its neighbouring academic institution, the Nova Scotia Agricultural College (NSAC). The Park’s mandate is to provide the fertile environment necessary to grow and develop innovative bio-economy products, services and technologies within the agri-food, marine and environmental sectors. Located on a 65 hectare section of rural property, the park offers flexible leasing and business support services for new bio-science enterprises and growing businesses.


nova Scotia Agricultural Collegel O C At i O n :

Bible Hill, nova Scotia

The Knowledge Park is designed to grow the knowledge industry in the Province of New Brunswick. Its principle objective is to provide clustering opportunities for companies that are engaged in the research, development and application of technologies related to such fields as information technology (IT), biotechnology, education, engineering, health care, forestry and agriculture.


University of new Brunswickl O C At i O n :

fredericton, new Brunswick

AGRITECH PARKwww.agritechpark.com

KNOWLEDGE PARK www.knowledgepark.ca

O v E R v I E w Canadian research & technology parks

TMQ is intent on creating a stimulating environment for the sustainable development of marine resources, sciences and technologies by promoting and reinforcing the capabilities and competencies of the Quebec Maritime’s institutions and industries. TMQ plays a leading role in developing the network by building bridges between researchers, entrepreneurs, innovators and experts to convert marine know-how into high added value products, goods and services.


l’Université du Québec à Rimouskil O C At i O n :

Rimouski, Québec

TECHNOPOLE MARITIME DU QUEBEC www.tmq.ca

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TECHNOPOLE DE THETFORDwww.technopolethetford.ca

The Technopole de la région de Thetford facilitates the development of strategic partners by fostering new research opportunities and technological development with the ultimate goal to advance discoveries through the commercialization process. The park creates new possibilities by collaborating with different researchers, evaluating technological transfer opportunities, and protecting the intellectual properties of researchers.


Cégap de thetfordl O C At i O n : thetford Mines, Québec

The Quebec Metro High Tech Park is where people work, live, and create. The park boasts nearly one hundred business and research centres. The focus of expertise in the park encompasses optics, phototonics, electronics, life sciences, new materials, environment technology, information technology, and wood technology. With its partnerships, the park is able to provide profound research and development services and support the development of new and recognizable organizations.


Université lavall O C At i O n :

Quebec City, Québec

QUEBEC METRO HIGH TECH PARK www.parctechno.qc.ca

The Innovation Park provides a hub for regional, national, and international scientific research and development activities.The Park’s networking efforts between private companies, government entities, and researchers from Université de Sherbrooke have stimulated and created unprecedented breakthroughs in the clean tech, sustainable development, environment, IT, communication technology, and micro- nanotechnology sectors.


Université de Sherbrookel O C At i O n :

Sherbrooke, Québec

INNOVATION PARK AT THE UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE www.usherbrooke.ca/recherche/en/

The Saint-Maurice Valley Technology Park’s mission is to support and promote technological innovation. The park supports and promotes technological innovation and focuses on the development of new responsive business practices. Actions are guided through the supporat and development of innovating companies, networking initiatives with key players, contributions to the development of regional technological procedures, and the promotion of innovation within Trois-Rivières.


University of Quebéc at trois-Rivièresl O C At i O n :

trois-Rivières, Québec

ST. MAURICE VALLEY TECHNOLOGY PARKwww.researchpark.ca

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SAINT-HYACINTHE SCIENCE PARK www.st-hyacinthetechnopole.qc.ca


The Saint-Hyacinthe Science Park supports and promotes over 150 businesses involved in agricultural production and processing, equipment manufacturing and distribution, and specialized agri-food services. The park aids 16 organizations involved in such operations as economic development and technology transfers, and has opened thousands of specialized agri-food employment opportunities. With more than 20 advanced research and development centres and over 200 internationally renowned researchers on permanent staff, to name a few; Saint-Hyacinthe is sure to be a world-class science park.

A f f i l i At i O n : the Université de Montréal, the itA and the Cégep de Saint-Hyacinthel O C At i O n : Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec

The mission of Longueuil Economic Development (LED) is to strengthen its role and economic significance in the Greater Montreal area by maintaining, developing and attracting businesses, and creating quality jobs.


University of Quebec at trois-Revières, Champlain Regional College, University of laval, McGill University, Université de Sherbrooke, University of Quebec at Montreall O C At i O n :

Boucherville, Québec

LONGUEUIL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT www.del.longueuil.ca

Mandated by the City of Laval, Laval Technopole promotes economic development by attracting new investments, hosting companies and supporting those in its region. Services offered to businesses in Laval include internationalization, real estate development, financing, marketing, consulting and training. Laval Technopole’s goal

is to promote and ensure economic development.


Collège Montremorency, McGill University, University of Montreal, University of Quebecl O C At i O n :

laval, Québec

LAVAL TECHNOPOLE www.lavaltechnopole.com

The Varennes Novoparc is a green and renewable energy innovation centre. The Novoparc merges the vision of its executive team with the scientific and industrial know-how of leading sustainable development corporations. Novoparc’s expertise in this sector, combined with its world-class infrastructure, available land, tailored regulations, and support for new businesses has allowed the area to become a North American leader in

alternative and renewable energies.


Centre d’études collégiales de Varennes (Sorel-tracy CÉGEP)l O C At i O n :

Varennes, Québec

NOVOPARC VARENNESwww.ville.varennes.qc.ca/investisseurs/en/novoparc-en

TECHNOPARC BROMONT www.technoparcbromont.com/en/index.php

Located in the region with the highest concentration of employment in the microelectronics sector in Québec, the Technoparc is home to businesses in microelectronics, aeronautics, environment, nanotechnology, new materials, and renewable energy. Committed to establishing an environment conducive to the consolidation and development of leading edge companies, the Technoparc acts as a planned research and prototyping centre, provides incubation programs, and places high priority on IP protection.

A f f i l i At i O n :Université de Sherbrookel O C At i O n :

Bromont,Québec

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MaRS Discovery District began with a vision to foster social and economic prosperity by creating Canada’s next generation of high-growth technology companies. MaRS works closely with entrepreneurs to grow and scale their ventures into global market leaders in life sciences and health care, information, communications and digital media technologies, clean tech, advanced materials and engineering, as well as innovative social purpose business. The innovations that have emerged from MaRS have stemmed from the collaboration and exploration of like-minded people sharing new ideas to create new technologies.


University of torontol O C At i O n :

toronto, Ontario

MARS DISCOVERY DISTRICT www.marsdd.com

Innovation Park at Queen’s University is a community of innovators and specialists where academic, industrial and government researchers work together to cultivate ideas, identify and transform important technological discoveries and, with the aid of commercialization and market development experts, propel innovations onto the marketplace. Innovation Park has emerged as the vehicle to drive and accelerate university-industry interaction and create vibrant research and innovation forums.


Queen’s Universityl O C At i O n :

Kingston, Ontario

INNOVATION PARK AT QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY www.innovationpark.ca

The University of Waterloo is committed to creating a unique community-based Research Park, whose mandate is to foster radical innovation. The high ambition of the park is supported by a comprehensive partnership among the University, the Government of Canada, the Province of Ontario, the Region of Waterloo, the City of Waterloo, Communitech Technology Association, and Canada’s Technology Triangle.


University of Waterlool O C At i O n :

Waterloo, Ontario

Technoparc Montreal at St. Laurent is the City of Montreal’s research and development site and Canada’s largest operating R&D park. It has achieved one of the highest rates of growth in North America over the past few years. Technoparc Montreal is also a strategic partner with the City of Montreal and is helping to realize Montreal’s vision of being a world-class, knowledge-based city and a hub of creativity and innovation.


Concordia University, McGill University, Collège Vanier, Cégep Saint-laurentl O C At i O n :

Montreal, Québec

DAVID JOHNSTON RESEARCH + TECHNOLOGY PARK UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOOwww.rtpark.uwaterloo.ca

TECHNOPARC MONTREAL www.technoparc.com

LAVAL TECHNOPOLE www.lavaltechnopole.com

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The Sault Ste. Marie Innovation Centre acts as a catalyst for change in the Algoma District. Committed to strengthening and diversifying the regional economy, the Centre supports science and IT start-ups in the alternative energy, bio-economy, water, video gaming, GIS and health informatics sectors, directs leading edge research between academia, industry and government, and develops strategic sectors aligned with areas of community strength.


Algoma Universityl O C At i O n :

Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario

McMaster Innovation Park is the place where visions are realized, and ideas are transformed into commercial opportunities. Branching off its reputation as a prestigious research centre, McMaster University is transforming vacant fields and warehouses into a research centre of excellence. McMaster Innovation Park will create an environment that facilitates innovation, encourages successful collaboration and aligns with the research strengths of McMaster University.


McMaster Universityl O C At i O n :

Hamilton, Ontario

Sunnybrook Research Institute (SRI) is dedicated not only to leading world-class research, but also to ensuring that the results of that research lead to tangible positive impactrs. We are actively engaged in moving our technology from the lab to the mainstream by parterning with industry, licensing technolgoy to companies and creating spinoff companies..


University of torontol O C At i O n :

toronto, Ontario

SAULT STE. MARIE INNOVATION CENTRE www.ssmic.com

MCMASTER INNOVATION PARK www.mcmasterinnovationpark.ca

SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTEwww.sunnybrook.ca/research


The University of Guelph Research Park is anchored by three key institutions, including the University of Guelph, one of Canada’s most acclaimed and research intensive universities. The University’s research influence, partnered with provincial and federal support, has impelled strong and manageable growth. Park tenants’ interests include medical and pharmaceutical research and development, agriculture, technical services, environmental services and information technology.


University of Guelphl O C At i O n :

Guelph, Ontario

UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH RESEARCH PARK www.uoguelph.ca/realestate

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Western University’s Research Park supports innovation from three locations: the 50-acre London Campus, the 80-acre Sarnia-Lambton Campus, and the new 130-acre Advanced Manufacturing Park. The Research Park is home to 100 organizations and operates two of Canada’s largest technology incubators: the award winning Stiller Centre in London, focused on life sciences, and the Bowman Centre in Sarnia, Canada’s largest cleantech incubator, focused on industrial biotechnology. The Advanced Manufacturing Park is home to the Fraunhofer Project Centre for lightweight materials and to the world’s most advanced wind tunnel. From turnkey labs to serviced industrial land, the Research Park supports entrepreneurs from startup to full-scale production.

A f f i l i At i O n : University of Western Ontariol O C At i O n : london, Ontario & Sarnia, Ontario

UOIT’s founding mission called on the university to advance the highest quality of research in order to create the highest quality intellectual property. Consider it mission accomplished to date as UOIT has exceeded all expectations in building a strong reputation for research excellence. The University’s commitment to research excellence has resulted in millions of dollars in research awards and grants, including five prestigious Canada Research Chairs (CRCs), with another four in development, and six industrial research chairs. Since 2006, UOIT has had more than 80 invention disclosures; submitted more than 35 patent applications, four of which have been issued; entered into five licence agreements and supported two spinoff companies.


University of Ontario institute of technologyl O C At i O n : Oshawa, Ontario

Smartpark’s high-tech focus contributes to an environment and culture that encourages entrepreneurs and university graduates across many disciplines to stay in Winnipeg and Manitoba. Over the last five years, Smartpark Research and Technology Park has stimulated over $100 million in capital developments. The park is home to 20 growing companies in various high-tech sectors.


University of Manitobal O C At i O n :

Winnipeg, Manitoba

WESTERN UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT PARKwww.researchpark.ca

UNIVERSITY OF ONTARIO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY www.research.uoit.ca

SMARTPARKwww.umanitoba.ca/research/smartpark

Established in 1980, Innovation Place is one of the most successful university-related research parks in North America. The main park is located in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, on 80 acres adjacent to the University of Saskatchewan. The park builds on the institution’s strengths in agriculture, information technology, and environmental and life sciences. Innovation Place in Regina is home to 33 clients and employs more than 1,000 people.


University of Saskatoon & University of Reginal O C At i O n :

Saskatoon, Regina and Prince Albert, Saskatchewan

INNOVATION PLACE www.innovationplace.com

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Innovate Calgary is a full service organization offering technology transfer and business incubator services to researchers, entrepreneurs and businesses within the advanced technology sector. We support commercialization by providing a variety of services and programs including: business and technical advice, workshops, screening of technologies for commercial potential, access to sector resources and networking events, licensing and intellectual property protection strategy, company creation/incubation programs and office and lab space - tenancy and business resources and facilities for technology companies.

A f f i l i At i O n : University of Calgaryl O C At i O n :

Calgary, Alberta

The Edmonton Research Park (ERP) is a world-leading hub of innovation. The park is set in a beautiful, spacious campus in south Edmonton, 15 minutes from the centre of Alberta’s capital city. More than 1,500 people work for nearly 55 companies at ERP, engaged in advanced research in medicine, biotechnology, software, petroleum research, nanotechnology and clean energy.

l O C At i O n : Edmonton, Alberta

Great Northern Way Campus (GNWC) is an emerging digital village destined to change the way people think about art, science, learning and commerce. GNWC is a collaboration of British Columbia’s best educational institutions and some of the most creative businesses in the world. GNWC will act as a catalyst that generates jobs, ideas and applications.

A f f i l i At i O n : University of British Columbia, Simon fraser University, British Columbia institute of technology, Emily Carr University of Art + Designl O C At i O n :

Vancouver, British Columbia

INNOVATE CALGARY www.innovatecalgary.com

EDMONTON RESEARCH PARK www.edmonton.com/researchpark

GREAT NORTHERN WAY CAMPUS www.gnwc.ca

The Park is a major centre for technological activity, and is easily accessible from Vancouver, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco and other Pacific Rim locations. VITP concentrates on partnerships with organizations such as the IDC, VIATeC, NRC-IRAP, and universities and colleges to better assist the hi-tech community. VITP remains passionate about creating jobs for the people of the province.

A f f i l i At i O n : University of Victorial O C At i O n :

Victoria, British Columbia

VANCOUVER ISLAND TECHNOLOGY PARK www.vitp.ca

A University of Victoria Enterprise

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D I R E C T O R y Canada’s research & technology park tenants

NOVA SCOTIA agRiTeCH paRk

AgraPoint International Incorporatedwww.agrapoint.ca

Atlantic Bio-Venture Centrewww.atlanticbioventure.com

Atlantic New Technology Development Inc.www.agritechpark.com/anTd.asp

Christmas Tree Research Centrewww.nsac.ca/acc

Nova Scotia Federation of Agriculturensfa-fane.ca

Nova Scotia Department of Agriculturewww.gov.ns.ca/agri

Pizza Mewww.agritechpark.com/pizza.asp

TruLeaf SustainableTruleaf.ca

NEW BRUNSWICKknOWledge paRk

Acceleration Centre www.knowledgepark.ca

Centre of Excellence for Advanced Learning Technology www.cealt.ca

CGI Group Incorporated www.cgi.com

CMS Enterprise Fredericton www.enterprisefredericton.ca

Mother’s Care Education Centre

New Brunswick Health Research Foundation www.nbhrf.com

Research In Motionwww.rim.com

Radian6 www.radian6.com

Skillsoft www.skillsoft.com

GR8Mediawww.gr8media.gr

Introhive www.introhive.com

Bluedrop Inc www.bluedrop.ca

CAE Inc www.cae.com

QUEBECnOVOpaRC VaRenneS

ABBwww.abb.ca

ADA editions INCwww.ada-inc.com

AET Filmswww.aetfilms.com

Air Liquidewww.airliquide.com

Bauval Tech-mix www.bauval.com

Benvas

Biogaz EG

Canmet ÉNERGIEhttp://canmetenergy.nrcan.gc.ca/home

Clic Demix www.clicdemix.com

DOWwww.dow.com/canada

Enerkem www.enerkem.com/fr/accueil.html

FATI Steelwww.fatisteel.com

Greenfield Éthanolwww.greenfieldethanol.com

INRS www.inrs.ca

Kemirawww.kemira.com

Kronos Canada Inc.www.kronostio2.com

Mometal Structures Inc. www.mometal.com

NUVO Researchwww.nuvoresearch.com

Praxair Canada Inc.www.praxair.com

Precicor inc.www.precicor.com

Provalcid Inc.www.provalcid.com

Rail Cantech Inc. Recyc RPM Inc.www.recycrpm.com

Refrabec inc.www.refrabec.qc.ca

Sanexen sevices environnementaux Inc. www.sanexen.com

S.C. Johnson & Fils Ltéewww.scjohnson.com/en/ home.aspx

Scène Éthique Inc.www.sceneethique.com

Services Mécanique Taschereau

Solmax Internationalwww.solmax.com

Soudures Duphily Inc.

Soudure Deguise

Soudures Varennes

Structures Gialaywww.gialay.com/projetus.html

Transax Technologies inc.www.transax.net

Tyco Valves & Controls Canada Inc. www.tycovalves.com

Usinage Revitech Inc.www.usinagerevitech.com/ index.html

TeCHnOpOle MaRiTiMe du QueBeC

ADRA Groupe Conseil (Université du Québec à Rimouski (UQAR)www.groupeadra.com

AECOM Tecsult Inc.www.aecom.com

Atelier Daniel St-Pierre Biocean Canada Inc.www.oceanplus.info

C.B.E.M Ltd

Centre de recherche en biotechnologies marines (CRBM)www.crbm-mbrc.com

Centre de recherche en biotechnologies marines (CRBM) R&Dwww.crbm-mbrc.com

Centre Interdisciplinaire de Dé veloppement en Cartographie des Océans (CIDCO)www.cidco.ca

Chaire de recherche en transport maritime Université du Québec à Rimouski) www.uqar.uquebec.ca/chaires/transportMaritime

CIMA+www.cima.ca

Cogema - Chermins de fer Canadien National www.cn.ca

Contrôle Électrique R.K. Inc.www.controlerk.com

Département de Biologie, chimie et géographie à l’UQARwww.uqar.uquebec.ca

Département de mathématiques, informatique et génie à l’UQAR www.uqar.qc.ca/recherche/unites

DIVETECKwww.diveteck.com

Esterline CMC Électroniquewww.cmcelectronics.ca

GELL’AIR GREMTRAK Inc.www.gremtrak.com

Groupe Maritime Verreault Inc.www.groupeverreault.com

Groupe SYGIF Inc. - SYGIF International Inc.www.sygif.qc.ca

Groupe TRIFIDE Inc.www.groupetrifide.com

HYDROSOFT S.A.www.hydrosoft.ca

innoVactiv Inc.www.innovactiv.com

Innovation maritimewww.innovationmaritime.ca

Institut des sciences de la mer de Rimouski - UQAR- ISMERwww.ismer.ca

Institut maritime du Québec (IMQ)www.imq.qc.ca

Institut Maurice-Lamontagne de Pêches et Océans Canadawww.osl.gc.ca

Le Groupe Internationlwww.legroupeinternational.com

Les Industries FILMAR Inc.www.filmar.qc.ca

Les Industries Rilec Inc.www.rilec.com

Méridien Maritime réparation et inspection

Métal en Feuilles de Matane (1989) Inc.www.metalenfeuilles.com

Multi-Électronique (MTE) Inc.www.multi-electronique.com

Nouvelles Technologies Index Inc.www.ntindex.ca

NutrOcéan Inc.www.nutrocean.com

Observatoire global du Saint- Laurent (OGSL)http://ogsl.ca

Ocean NutraScienceswww.oceanns.ca

Océanide Inc.www.oceanide.ca

Oceatec Inc.www.oceatec.com

OpDAQ Systèmes Inc.www.opdaq.com

OrganicOcean Inc.www.organicocean.ca

PESCA Environnementwww.pescaenvironnement.com

Pro-Algue Marine Inc.www.pro-alguemarine.com

REFORMAR Incorporatedwww.reformar.ca

Réparations maritimes B.N.R. Inc.

Réseau d’observation des mammifères marinswww.romm.ca

Roche Ltd. Groupe conseilwww.roche.ca

Roche Ltd. Groupe conseil (Succursale Rivière-du-Loup)www.roche.ca

SPS Marinewww.spsmarine.net

St-Pierre Pinsonnault Young Consultants Maritimeswww.spyconsultants.com

Technopole Maritime du Québecwww.tmq.ca

Terminaux portuaires du Québec Inc.

Traverse Rimouski-Forestvillewww.traversier.com

Verreault Navigation Inc.www.groupeverreault.com

TeCHnOpaRC MOnTReal

Accedian Networkswww.accedian.com

Agilent Technologieswww.home.agilent.com

AMDOCSwww.amdocs.com

ART Recherches et Technolgies Avancée Inc.www.art.ca

Astra Zeneca R&D Montréalwww.astrazeneca.ca

Aveos Performancewww.aveos.com

Beiersdorfwww.beiersdorf.com

Beldenwww.belden.com

Bombardierwww.bombardier.com

Bristol-Myers Squibbwww.bmscanada.ca

CAEwww.cae.com

Cienawww.ciena.com

Cologicwww.cologix.com

Conglomwww.conglom.com

DAI (Discovery Air Innovations)www.discoveryair.com/operating-companies/dai

EXFOwww.exfo.com

Garderie K.I.D.S.www.kids-dc.com

Genetec Inc.www.genetec.com

Hewlett-Packardwww.hp.ca

Hôtel Novotelwww.novotel.com

Lockheed Martinwww.lockheedmartin.com

Magentawww.magenta-research.com

Maxxamwww.maxxam.ca

Mecachrome Canadawww.mecachrome.com

MethylGene Incwww.methylgene.com

Otsukawww.otsuka.co.jp/en

Philips Santéwww.philips.ca

Shire Canada Inc.www.shirecanada.com

Smith & Nephewhttp://global.smith-nephew.com

Thaleswww.thalesgroup.com

The Medicines Companywww.themedicinescompany.com

Theratechnologieswww.theratech.com

ONTARIOdaVid JOHnSTOn ReSeaRCH + TeCHnOlOgY paRk uniVeRSiTY OF WaTeRlOO

Accelerator Centrewww.acceleratorcentre.com

ActivDoxwww.activdox.com

AIM Health Groupwww.aimhealthgroup.com

ANTVibes, Inc.www.antvibes.com

Avenir Medical Inc.www.avenirmedical.com

Axonifywww.axonify.com

BigRoadwww.bigroad.com

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Bonfire Interactivewww.bonfireinteractive.net

Business & Education Partnershipwww.bus-edpartnership.org

Canadian Digital Media Networkwww.cdmn.ca

Canadian Innovation Centrewww.innovationcentre.ca

Canadian Water Networkwww.cwn-rce.ca

CAP Solutions Inc.www.capsoln.ca

CISCO Systems Incwww.cisco.com

Capacity Waterloo Regionwww.capacitywr.ca

Conrad Business, Entrepreneurship and Technology Centrewww.cbet.uwaterloo.ca

CellScale Biomaterials Testingwww.cell-scale.com

Columbia Lake Health Clubwww.columbialakehealthclub.com

Columbia Lake Indoor Golfwww.columbialackhealthclub.com/main3.cfm

Communitechwww.communitech.ca

Delta Technology Inc.

Dyverga Energy Corporationwww.dyverga.com

Education Credit Unionwww.ecusolutions.com

Enflick Incwww.enflick.com

Gainsterswww.gainsters.com

Giftopia Inc.www.giftopia.me

I Think Security Ltd.www.ithinksecurity.com

iNotForProfitwww.inotforprofit.com

Institute for Quantum Computingwww.iqc.ca

JADsoftware Inc.www.jadsoftware.com

Kids & Companywww.kidsandcompany.ca

Knowledge in Developmentwww.knowledgeindevelopment.ca

Lantern Hill ITwww.lanternhillit.com

Mespere Lifesciences Inc.www.mespere.com

Miller Thomson LLPwww.millerthomson.com

Monstercat Mediawww.monstercat.com

Nanotechnology Engineeringwww.nanotech.uwaterloo.ca

National Research Council - Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC-IRAP)www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca

Navtechwww.navtech.aero

Ontario Centres of Excellencewww.oce-ontario.org

Open Text Corporationwww.opentext.com

POHSA Inc.www.pohsa.com

PRIMEwww.primewaterloo.ca

ProductWiki Inc.www.productwiki.com

Qwalifywww.qwalify.com

Quantum Workswww.quantumworks.ca

Reply.iowww.reply.io

Research In Motionwww.rim.com

Security Governance Group

Social Venture Partners Waterloo Regionwww.svpwr.org

Snapsort Inc.www.snapsort.com

Sober Steering Sensorswww.sobersteering.com

Sweet Toothwww.sweettoothrewards.com

Sybase, An SAP Companywww.sybase.com

TechTown Caféwww.techtowncafe.com

TechTown Dentistrywww.techtowndentistry.com

Tyromer, Inc.www.tyromer.com

Universal Quantum Deviceshttp://uqdevices.com

WaterlooSecurity Ltd.www.watsec.com

innOVaTiOn paRk aT Queen’S uniVeRSiTY

14 Theories Inc.www.14theories.com

Analytical Services UnitBKIN Technologieswww.bkintechnologies.com

CMC Microsystems (Canada Microelectronics Corporation)www.cmc.ca

DMT Microsystemswww.dmtmicrosystems.ca

ENDETECwww.endetec.com

Greater Kingston Chamber of Commercewww.kingstonchamber.on.ca

GreenCentre Canada (GCC)www.greencentrecanada.com

High Performance Computing Virtual Laboratory (HPCVL)www.hpcvl.org

Interactive Audio Visualwww.interactiveaudiovisual.com

KalGene Pharmaceuticals Inc.www.kalgene.com

Kingston Economic Development Corporation (KEDCO)www.kingstoncanada.com/en

Lab-2-Clinic Solutions Inc.

Launch Labwww.launchlab.ca

Marlay Professional Corp.www.marlay.ca

Medizone International Inc.http://medizoneint.com

MEGS Specialty Gases & Equipmentwww.megs.ca

Mitacs Inc.www.mitacs.ca

National Research Council - Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC - IRAP)www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/index.html

Novelis Global Technology Centrewww.novelis.com

Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE)www.oce-ontario.org

Ontario East Economic Development Corporation (OEEDC)www.onteast.com

PARTEQ Innovations Inc.www.parteqinnovations.com

Queen’s University - RMC Fuel Cell Research Centre www.fcrc.ca

Queen’s Universitywww.cs.queensu.ca/applicants/biomed

Queen’s University Solar Calorimetry Lab

RS Multimediawww.rsmultimedia.ca

RT09 (Region 9 Regional Tourism Organization)www.region9tourism.ca

Snieckus Innovationswww.snieckusinnovations.ca

Strategic Benefits & Insurance Services Ltd.www.strategicins.ca

The Sustainable Bioeconomy Centre at Queen’s Universitywww.queensu.ca/sbc

SWITCH, The Sustainable Energy Peoplewww.switchkingston.ca

Tanget MTW Inc.www.tangentmtw.com

MaRS diSCOVeRY diSTRiCT

AIM Therapeutics Inc.www.aimtherapeutics.com

ArcticDx Inc.www.arcticdx.com

BioQuest Innovations Inc.www.bioquestinnovations.com

Business Acceleration Program (BAP)www.marsdd.com/aboutmars/partners/bap

Business Development Bank of Canadawww.bdc.ca/en/pages/home.aspx

Canada’s Venture Capital & Private Equity Association (CVCA)www.cvca.ca

Canadian Film Centre Media Labwww.cfccreates.com

Cassandra Capital L.P.

Celtic House Venture Partnerswww.celtic-house.com

GE Healthcare - PICOEwww.gehealthcare.com/canada/it/HCiT/digitalpathology.html

GlaxoSmithKline Inc.www.gsk.ca

Grand Challenges Canadawww.grandchallenges.ca

Greater Peterborough Innovation Clusterwww.innovationcluster.ca

Institute for Diagnostic Imaging Research (IDIR)www.idirresearch.com

Innovate LLPwww.innovatellp.com

Investment Accelerator Fundwww.marsdd.com/aboutmars/partners/iaf

MaRS Commonshttp://marscommons.marsdd.com

MaRS Innovationwww.marsinnovation.com

MaRS Studioswww.mars-studios.com

McEwen Centre for Regenerative Medicinewww.mcewencentre.com/home

McLaughlin Centre for Molecular Medicinewww.mcmm.ca

Merckwww.merck.ca

Miller Thomson LLPwww.millerthomson.com

National Angel Capital Organizationwww.angelinvestor.ca

Network of Angel Organizations - Ontario (NAO - Ontario)http://nao-ontario.ca

National Research Council - Industrial Research Assistance Programhttp://irap-pari.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca

Norton Rose OR LLPwww.nortonrose.com

Ontario Genomics Institutewww.ontariogenomics.ca

Ontario Health Studyhttps://ontariohealthstudy.ca

Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR)www.oicr.on.ca

Ozmosis Researchwww.ozmosisresearch.ca

Pentarc Groupwww.pentarcgroup.com

RBC Royal Bankwww.rbc.com

Rosetta Capital (Canada) Limitedwww.rosettacapital.com

Sandra Rotman Centrewww.srcglobal.org

SiG @ MaRSwww.marsdd.com/aboutmars/partners/sig

SiG Nationalhttp://sigeneration.ca

Sigma Analysis & Management Ltd.www.sigmanalysis.com

Stem Cell Therapeutics Corp.www.stemcellthera.com

The Hospital for Sick Kidswww.sickkids.ca

Innovations Group & Partnership Office, University of Torontowww.research.utoronto.ca/innovations-partnerships

The Martin Prosperity Institutewww.martinprosperity.org

Tower Labs @ MaRShttp://towerlabs.org/site

Transition Therapeutics Inc.www.transitiontherapeutics.com

UHN Technology Development & Commercializationwww.uhnres.utoronto.ca/rbdo

University Health Network (UHN)www.uhn.ca

University of Toronto Asset Management Corporationwww.utam.utoronto.ca

MaRS inCuBaTOR

Alpha Cancer Technologieswww.alpha-cancer.com

Ambit Bioscienceswww.ambitbio.com

Beside Clinical Systems Inc.http://bedsideclinical.com

Cytochroma Inc.www.cytochroma.com

Distility Brandingwww.distility.com

Ethical Oceanwww.ethicalocean.com

Fluorinov Pharma Inc.www.fluorinovpharma.com

GreenMantra Recycling Technologieswww.greenmantra.ca

Hb Products Inc

Highland Therapeutics Inc.www.highlandtherapeutics.com

inMotivewww.inmotive.com

Interface Biologics Inc.www.interfacebiologics.com

IPT Smarter Alloyswww.ipti.ca

In Vitro Drug Safety and Biotechnology

Kanata Chemical Technologies Inc.www.kctchem.com

Nevex Virtual Technologieswww.nevex.com

Ontario Cancer Biomarker Network (OCBN)www.ocbn.ca

D I R E C T O R y Canadian research & technology park tenants

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Ontario Government Innovation Lab @ MaRS

OtoSim Inc.www.otosim.com

PointerWare Innovations Ltd.www.pointerware.com

Prodal-Gwww.prodalg.com

Receptor Therapeutics Inc.www.receptor.ca

Rocksteady Investments Ltd.www.rocksteadyinvestments.com

Segasist Technologieswww.segasist.com

Self Care Catalysts Inc.www.selfcarecatalysts.com

Skymeter Corporationwww.skymetercorp.com

Transition Therapeutics Drug Discovery Groupwww.transitiontherapeutics.com

Xagenic Inc.www.xagenic.com

XYZ Interactive Technologies Inc.www.xyzinteractive.com

MCMaSTeR innOVaTiOn paRk

Assante Wealth Managementwww.assante.com

Ballagh and Edward Intellectual Property Lawwww.ballaghedward.ca

CANMET Materials Technology Lab (CANMET-MTL)www.nrcan.gc.ca/minerals-metals/materials-technology/2945

Dynamic Functional Solutionswww.dynamicfunc.com

EnviroSim Associates Ltd.www.envirosim.com

Fluid Mediawww.fluidmedia.com/global_login

Greening Marketingwww.greeningmarketing.ca

Health & Social Service Utilizationwww.fhs.mcmaster.ca/slru

Hy-Power Nano Inc.www.hy-powernano.com

Innovation Factorywww.innovationfactory.ca

INO (National Optics Institute)www.ino.ca

Luther Holton Associates Inc.www.lutherholtonassoc.com

Master’s Insurancewww.mastersinsurance.com

McMaster Credit Unionwww.maccu.com

McMaster Department of Family Medicinewww.fhs.mcmaster.ca

McMaster University Industrial Liaison Office (MILO)http://milo.mcmaster.ca

MIIRC@M, Medical Imaging Informatics Research at McMasterwww.miircam.com

Mohawk College Enterprisewww.mohawkcollegeenterprise.ca

National Research Council Canada (NRCC)www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca

Norjohn Limitedwww.walkerind.com/norjohn/index.html

Specialized NDEwww.specializednde.com

TransHub Ontariowww.transhub.ca

UNU-INWEH, United Nations University, Institute for Water, Environment and Healthwww.inweh.unu.edu

Xerox Centre for Engineering Entrepreneurship and Innovation (XCEEI)www.businessinnovation.ca/pether/index.html

Weever Appswww.weeverapps.com

uniVeRSiTY OF guelpH ReSeaRCH paRk

ACC Farmer’s Financial/ Management Services Inc./ FARMwww.accfarmersfinancial.ca

AdFarmwww.adfarmonline.com

Advanced Foods & Materials Network www.afmnet.ca

AGCare (Agricultural Groups Concerned About Resources and the Environment) www.agcare.org

Agricultural Adaptation Council www.adaptcouncil.org

Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada www.agr.gc.ca

AgriTours Canada Inc.www.agritourscanada.comBayer CropSciencewww.bayercropscience.ca

Beckhoff Automation Canada Ltd. www.beckhoff.com

BioEnterprise Corp.www.bioenterprise.ca

Business Improvement Groupwww.busimpgroup.ca

Canada’s Outdoor Farm Showwww.outdoorfarmshow.com

Canadian Animal Health Institute www.cahi-icsa.ca

Canadian Food Inspection Agency www.inspection.gc.ca

Delta Guelph Hotel & Conference Centre www.deltahotels.com

eBiz Professionals Inc.www.ebpros.com

Elanco Animal Healthwww.elanco.com

Eleviewwww.eleview.ca

Farm Credit Canadawww.fcc-fac.ca

Foundation for Rural Livingwww.frl.on.ca

George Morris Centrewww.georgemorris.org

Geosyntec Consultants International Inc. www.geosyntec.com

Grain Farmers Of Ontariowww.gfo.ca

GranDi Company Ltd

Institute of Agri-Food Policy Innovation www.iafpi.ca

International Credential Assessment Service of Canada Inc www.icascanada.ca

Ipsos Reid Corp.www.ipsos.ca

Lipid Analytical Laboratorieswww.lipidanalytical.com

Marketing911www.marketing911.ca

Miller Thompson LLPwww.millerthomson.com

Monsanto Canada Inc.www.monsanto.com

Novus Environmental Inc.www.novusenv.com

Nutrasource Diagnostics Incwww.nutrasource.ca

Nutrecowww.nutreco.com

Ontario Agri Business Association www.oaba.on.ca

Ontario Association of Veterinary Technicians www.oavt.org

Ontario BioAuto Councilwww.bioautocouncil.com

Ontario Canola Growers Association www.ontariocanola growers.ca

Ontario Farm Animal Councilwww.ofac.org

Ontario Federation of Agriculture www.ofa.on.ca

Ontario Institute of Agrologists www.oia.on.ca

Ontario Problem Gambling Research Centre www.gamblingresearch.org

Ontario Universities’ Application Centre www.ouac.on.ca

Parrish & Heimbecker, Ltd.www.parishand heimbecker.com

Principal Water Resources

Public Health Agency of Canada www.phac-aspc.gc.ca

RKD Web Studioswww.rkd.ca

Rothsay/ Rothsay Biodieselwww.rothsay.ca

Semex Alliancewww.semex.com

Strategic Research Associates www.sraresearch.com

Syngenta Crop Protection Canada Inc. www.syngenta.ca

Synthesis Agri-Food Networkwww.synthesis-network.com

TD Canada Trustwww.tdcanadatrust.ca

The Athletic Clubwww.theathleticclubs.ca

The Ontario Rural Councilwww.torc.on.ca

University of Guelph Business Development Office www.uoguelph.ca/ research/bdo

Veterinary Skills Training and Enhancement Program www.vstepontario.org

Vets without Borderswww.vwb-vsf.ca

Wellmark Internationalwww.wellmark international.comWorkplace Safety & Insurance Boardwww.wsib.on.ca

uniVeRSiTY OF WeSTeRn OnTaRiO ReSeaRCH and deVelOpMenT paRk

Accufusion Inc.www.accufusion.com

Advanced Mineral Technology Laboratory (AMTEL)

Agri-Therm Inc.www.agri-therm.com

Autism Ontariowww.autismontario.com

Axcelon Biopolymers Corporationwww.axcelonbp.com

Azule Fuelwww.azulefuel.ca

Bilagot Energywww.bilagotenergy.com

Bioindustrial Innovation Centrewww.bicsarnia.ca

BIOMAR Inc.www.biomar.com

Biotricity Technologies Inc.

Boray Technologies Inc.

Bowman Centre for Technology Commercializationwww.bowmancentre.com

Brion Raffoul Patents & Trademarkswww.clancybrionraffoul.com

Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC)www.bdc.ca/en/business-centres/ontario/sarnia/pages/default.aspx

CAMH Centre for Prevention Science (“The Fourth R”)www.youthrelationships.org

CANOE Study (Canadian Normoglycemica Outcomes Evaluation)

CanWeb Internet Services Ltd.www.canweb.ca

CENNTEK Bioanalytical Services Inc.www.cennatek.ca

Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH)www.camh.net

Centre for Automotive Materials and Manufacturing (NRC-CAMM)www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/eng/facilities/imi/camm.html

Centre for Education Scholarship & Innovation

Centre for Studies in Family Medicinewww.familymedicineuwo.ca

CimTeC (Centre for Imaging Technology Commercialization)www.cimtec-canada.ca

Continuing Medical Education, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistrywww.schulich.uwo.ca/education/CMe

Dell Tech Laboratories Ltd.www.delltech.com

DQE Instrumentswww.dqeinstruments.com

DynIPwww.dynip.com

Eating Disorders Foundation of Canadawww.edfofcanada.com

Ecoelectrons Renewable Energywww.ecoelectrons.com

Endra, Inc.ENT Simulation Technologies Inc.

Fischer Scientificwww.fishe/rsci.ca

Global Research & Development, Business Unity Butyl Rubber, LANXESSwww.lanxess.ca

Gourmet Café

Group for the Advocacy and Advancement of Medical/Dental Education Scholarships (GAMES)www.schulich.uwo.ca/education/erru/gameswhoweare

Health Management Clinic

ID Labs Biotechnologywww.idlabs.com

Inferrex

Integra-Medical Inc.www.integra-medical.com

Integrated Strategic Alliances & Networkwww.lhsc.on.ca/about_us/Spl

Intellectual Asset Management Incwww.iami.ca

IT Architecture Management Institutewww.it-ami.org

iWare, Division of CanWebwww.iware.canweb.com

Junior Achievement Southwestern Ontariowww.south-western-ontario.jacan.org

Laboratory Connection Serviceswww.labconserv.com

LHSC ITS Departmentwww.lhsc.on.ca

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MaRS Business Advisory Serviceswww.marsdd.com/working-with-mars/advisors

MedQUEST Health Career Exploration Campwww.medquestwestern.ca

Medtrode Inc.www.medtrode.com

MOVES

National Research Council (NRC) (London Research Facilities)www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/eng/locations/cities/london.html

NetworkSafeguardwww.networksafeguard.com

NRC Automotive Sector Officewww.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/eng/sectors/automotive.html

NRC Canada Institute for Scientific & Technical Informationwww.cisti-icist.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca

NRC Centre for Computer-assisted Construction Technologies (NRC-CCCT)www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/eng/ibp/irc/ccct/index.html

NRC Industrial Materials Institute (NRC-IMI London Facilities)www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/imi-imi/index.html

NRC Industrial Research Assistance Program (IRAP)www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/index.html

NRC Institute for Research in Construction (NRC-IRC London Facilities)www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/irc-irc/index.html

Ontario Centre of Excellence for Materials & Manufacturingwww.oce-ontario.org/404.htm?aspxerrorpath=/pages/COeMaterials.aspx

Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE)www.oce-ontario.org

Ontario Telemedicine Network (OTN)www.otn.ca

PC Healthcare Communications Inc.www.pchealthcare.info

Philip King, Law Office

PolyAnalytikwww.polyanalytik.com

Priv-IT Inc.www.priv-it.com

Rajiv Varma Energy Project

Rapid BI Consutlingwww.rapid-bi.com

REACH-ESA

RedCat Filmwww.redcatfilm.com

Redox Technologies Inc.www.redoxtech.com

Renix Inc.www.renix.ca

REO Energywww.reoenergy.ca

Return the Landscape

RIA Labswww.rialabs.ca

Sarnia Lambton Economic Partnershipwww.sarnialambton.on.ca

Sarnia Lambton Industrial Alliancewww. sarnialambtonindustrial alliance.com

Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry Information Serviceswww.schulich.uwo.ca/informationServices

Science & Technology Integration Inc.

Sensory Technologies, Inc.www.sensorytech.ca

Sernova Corpwww.sernova.com

SGS Canada Inc.www.ca.sgs.com

Southwestern Ontario Angels Groupwww.swoangels.com

Southwestern Ontario Medical Educational Networkwww.swomen.ca

Stiller Centre for Technology Commercializationwww.stillercentre.com

Strategy and Project Leadershipwww.lhsc.on.ca/about_us/Spl

Stroke Editorial Officewww.stroke.ahajournals.orgSurface Science Westernwww.surfacesciencewestern.com

Sustainable Chemistry Alliancewww.suschemalliance.ca

TechAlliance of Southwestern Ontariowww.techalliance.ca

Thames Valley Family Practice Research Unitwww.uwo.ca/fammed/tvfpru

The Family Counselling Centre, social Service Bureau of Sarnia-Lambtonwww.familycounsellingctr.com

The National Diabetes Management Strategywww.tndms.ca

The NCO Groupwww.ncogroup.com

Trafalgar Associates Limitedwww.trafalgar-associates.com

Traxion Consultingwww.traxionconsulting.com

UnLab (UnLondon)www.unlondon.ca

Veritagen Inc.www.veritagen.com

Viron Therapeutics Inc.www.vironinc.com

Volumetrics Medical Corporationweb.isode.es

Windermere Manor Hotel & Conference Centrewww.windermeremanor.com

Windermere’s Caféwww.windermeremanor.com

WORLDiscoverieswww.worldiscoveries.ca

WorleyParsonswww.colteng.com

XLR Imaging Incwww.xlrimaging.com

MANITOBASMaRTpaRk

Apptius Computer Solutions Inc.www.apptius.com

BASF Canadawww.basf.com

BioMark Technologies Inc.www.biomarktech.com

Cangene Corporationwww.cangene.com

DiaMedica Inc.www.diamedica.com

DMT Development Systems Group Inc.www.dmt.ca

Edna Fedya Restaurant

Global Wind Group Inc.www.globalwindgroup.com

IDERS Inc.www.iders.ca

Industrial Technology Centrewww.it.mb.ca

Manitoba Rural Adaptation Councilwww.mrac.ca

MERLINwww.merlin.mb.ca

Monsanto Canada Inc.www.monsanto.ca

Monteris Medical Inc.www.monteris.com

Prairie Agricultural Machinery Institute (PAMI)www.pami.ca

ProfitMaster Canadawww.pmcanada.com

Richardson Centre for Functional Foods and Nutraceuticalswww.rcffn.ca

RTDS Technologies Inc.www.rtds.com

TransGrid Solutions Inc.www.transgridsolutions.com

Telecommunications Research Laboratories (TRLabs)www.trlabs.ca

WESTESTwww.westest.ca

Wolf Traxwww.wolftrax.com

SASKATCHEWANinnOVaTiOn plaCe SaSkaTOOn

2020 IT Solutions Corporationwww.2020its.com

2WEBDESIGN.comwww.2webdesign.com

Ade Therapeutics Incorporated

Advance-Tek Consulting Incorporatedwww.advance-tek.ca

AED Advantagewww.aedadvantage.ca

Agnelum R & D Solutionswww.agnelum.com

Agriculture Council of Saskatchewan Incorporatedwww.agcouncil.ca

Ag-West Bio Incorporatedwww.agwest.sk.ca

Allyn Development Group

AMEC Americas Limitedwww.amec.com

Axon Development Corporationwww.axonsoftware.com

BASF Canada Incoporatedwww.basf.com

Bayer CropScience Incorporatedwww.bayercropscience.com

Bioriginal Food & Science Coporationwww.bioriginal.com

BlackNova Internet Serviceswww.blacknova.ca

BlackSun Incorporatedwww.blacksun.ca

Blaq MAP Incorporatedwww.blaqmap.com

Boffins Clubwww.boffinsclub.com

Boffins Food Serviceswww.boffins.ca/foodservices

Bourgault Industrieswww.bourgault.com

Bretech Engineeringwww.bretech.com

Business 2 Business E-Commerce Systemswww.ecsglobal.com

Canada Food Inspection Agency - Operations & Programswww.inspection.gc.ca

Canadian food Inspection Agency - Saskatoon Laboratorywww.inspection.gc.on

Canadian Grain Commissionwww.grainscanada.gc.ca

Canola Council of Canadawww.canolacouncil.org

Clevor Technologies Inc.www.clevor.com

Coconut Calendarwww.coconutcalendar.com

Contango Strategieswww.contangostrategies.com

Core Data Recovery Inc.www.coredatarecovery.co

CropLife Canadawww.croplife.ca

Delta Point Wireless Inc.www.deltapoint.ca

Digital Planimetrics Inc.www.planimetrics.com

Dow AgroSciences Canada Inc.www.dowagro.com

Ecofish Research Ltd.www.ecofishresearch.com

EcoLibra Systems Inc.www.ecolibrasystems.com

EcoMetrix Incoporatedwww.ecometrix.ca

Enterprise Saskatchewanwww.enterprisesaskatchewan.ca

Environment Canadawww.ec.gc.ca

EventPro Softwarewww.eventpro.net

Farmers of North Americawww.fna.ca

Fisher Scientific Companywww.fishersci.ca

Foragen Technologies Managementwww.foragen.com

FundNET Systems Inc.www.fundnet.com

FWS Industrial Projects Ltd.www.fwsgroup.com

Garven and Associates

GB Internet Solutions Inc.www.gbsolutions.com

GE Healthcare IITSwww.gemedicalsystems.com

GENIVARwww.genivar.com

Genome Prairiewww.genomeprairie.ca

Harvest Foods Ltd.http://harvestfoodsltd.com

Hatchwww.hatch.ca

Health Quality Controlwww.hqc.sk.ca

Helix BioPharma Corp.www.helixbiopharma.com

Imprimis Secretarial Services Inc.www.imprimisfirst.ca

Innovation Placewww.innovationplace.com

Innovation Place - Bio Processing Centrewww.bioprocessing.ca

Innovation Saskatchewan

Innovation Wellnesswww.innovationmassagetherapy.com

Integrated Designswww.i-designs.ca

Intergraph Canada Ltd.www.intergraph.com

International Bioresources Research Group Inc. (IBRG)www.ibrg.ca

International Plant Nutrition Institutewww.ipni.net

Interra Biosciences Inc.www.interra.ca

IRON Solutions, Inc.www.ironsolutions.com

K3 Kensulting Inc.

Kinzel Cadrin & Associates Consulting Inc.www.kinzelcadrin.com

MacPherson Leslie & Tyerman LLPwww.mlt.com


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Maxxam Analytics International Corporation www.maxxam.ca

McDougall Gauleywww.mcdougallgauley.com

MDH Engineered Solutions Corp.www.mdhsolutions.com

Metabolixwww.metabolix.com

MPT Mustard Products and Technologieswww.mptmustardproducts.com

MWH Canada, Inc.www.mwhglobal.com

National Research Council - Industrial Research Assistance Programwww.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca

National Research Council - Plant Biotechnology Institutewww.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca

Nixin IT Systems Management Ltd.www.nixinit.com

Novozymes BioAg Limitedwww.bioag.novozymes.com

Numa Technologies Corporationwww.numacorp.ca

O’Kane Consultants Inc.www.okane-consultants.com

One World Café

PCS Inc. Technical Services Pilot Plantwww.potashcorp.com

Performance Evaluation Group Inc.

Petro-Find Geochemwww.gasoilgeochem.com

Pharmalytics Ltd.www.pharmalytics.ca

Phenomenome Discoveries Inc.www.phenomenome.com

Pioneer Hi-Bred Limitedwww.pioneer.com

Prairie Agricultural Machinery Institute (PAMI)www.pami.ca

Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administrationwww.agr.ca/pfra

Quantum Genetics Canada Inc.

Radiation Safety Institue of Canada - National Laboratories www.radiationsafety.ca

Rescan Environmental Services Ltd.www.rescan.com

Ritenburg & Associateswww.ritenburg.com

Rochon Associatedwww.rochonassociated.com

Sakina Information Scienceswww.sakinasciences.com

Saskatchewan Alfalfa Seed Producerswww.saspa.com

Saskatchewan Cancer Agencywww.saskcancer.ca

Saskatchewan Canola Development Commissionwww.saskcanola.com

Saskatchewan Emergency Medical Services Associationwww.semsa.org

Saskatchewan Health Research Foundationwww.shrf.ca

Saskatchewan Ministry of Environmentwww.environment.gov.sk.ca

Saskatchewan Pulse Growerswww.saskpulse.com

Saskatchewan Research Councilwww.src.sk.ca

Saskatchewan Research Council - Analytical Laboratorieswww.src.sk.ca

Saskatchewan Watershed Authoritywww.swa.ca

Saskatoon Police Service - K9 Unitwww.police.saskatoon.sk.ca

Saskaweb IT Solutionswww.saskaweb.com

Schulte Industries Ltd.www.schulte.ca

SED Systems Ltd.www.sedsystems.ca

Shane Resourceswww.shaneresources.com

SNC Lavalin Inc.www.snclavalin.com

Solido Design Automation Inc.www.solidodesign.com

Springboard West Innovations Inc.www.springboardwest.ca

Sunwest Food Laboratory Ltd.www.sunwestlab.ca

Synodon Inc.www.synodon.com

System Ecotechnologies Inc.www.systemechotechnologies.com

Technology Management Corporation (TMC)www.tmctech.com

Telecommunciations Research Laboratories (TRLabs)www.trlabs.com

TinyEYE Technologies Corporationwww.tinyeye.com

University of Regina - Faculty of Social Workwww.uregina.ca

University of Saskatchewan - Global Institute for Water Securitywww.usask.ca/water

University of Saskatchewan - Industry Liaison Officewww.usask.ca/research/ilo

University of Saskatchewan - Neural Systems & Plasticity Research Groupwww.medicine.usask.ca/research/health-research-groups/neural-systems-and-plasticity-research-group-1

University of Saskatchewan/Saskatchewan Health Region - Health Research & Innovation Office

University of Saskatchewan - School of Public Healthwww.usask.ca/sph

University of Saskatchewan - SK Cancer Control Research Programwww.medicine.usask.ca/che/research/saskatchewan-cancer-control-research-program.html

University of Saskatchewan - University Advancementwww.alumni.usask.ca

University of Saskatchewan - VP Researchwww.usask.ca/vpresearch

University of Saskatchewan - SK Population & Research Unitwww.spheru.ca

Vantec Design and Manufacturing Inc.

VDC Virtual Data Corp.www.virtualdata.com

Viterrawww.viterra.com

Western Ag Innovations Inc.www.westernag.ca

Western Grains Research Foundationwww.westerngrains.com

Williams Engineeringwww.williamsengineering.com

innOVaTiOn plaCe Regina

Acrodex Inc.www.acrodex.com

Asmoteknologies Ltd.www.asmotek.com

Communities of Tomorrowwww.communititesoftomorrow.ca

eHealth Saskatchewanwww.health.gov.sk.ca/ehealth-saskatchewan

ESRI Canadawww.esri.ca

Fujitsu Canadawww.fujitsu.ca

GB Internet Solutions Inc.www.gbsolutions.com

Information Services Corporation of Saskatchewan (ISC)www.isc.ca

Information Technology Officewww.ito.gov.sk.ca

Innovation Placewww.innovationplace.com

Innovation Saskatchewan

IPAC-CO2 Research Inc.www.ipac-co2.com

ISM Canadawww.ismcanada.com

Kingsland Energy Corp.www.kingslandenergy.com

Mera Groupwww.meragroup.net

Office of Energy Consevationwww.src.sk.ca/html/research_technology/energy_conservation/index.cfm

Petroleum Technology Research Centre (PTRC)www.ptrc.caPraxis

Public Policy Forum/Forum des politiqueswww.ppforum.ca

Saskatchewan Disease Control Laboratorywww.health.gov.sk.ca/lab

Saskatchewan Research Council (SRC)www.src.sk.ca

Saskatchewan Telecommunications (SaskTel)www.sasktel.com

Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC Canada)www.saic.com

SpringBoard West Innovations Inc.www.springboardwest.ca

Sprossil Industries Inc.www.sprossil.com

SRNetwww.srnet.ca

Terrance Café

Telecommunications Research Laboratory (TRLabs)www.trlabs.ca

University of Regina - Canadian Plains Research Center (CPRC)www.cprc.ca

University of Regina - Faculty of Engineeringwww.urengineering.ca

University of Regina - Institute for Energy, Environment and Sustainable Communitieshttp://env.uregina.ca/ieesc

University of Regina - Johnson-Shoyama graduate School of Public Policywww.schoolofpublicpolicy.sk.ca

University of Regina - Prairie Adaptation Research Collaborative (PARC)www.parc.ca

University of Regina - Saskatchewan Justice Institutewww.skjusticeinsitute.ca

WestSourcewww.westsource.ca

W. Shupe & Companywww.shupeandco.ca

innOVaTiOn plaCe pRinCe alBeRT

Assante Capital Management Ltd.www.assante.com

Associated Engineering (Sask) Ltd.www.ae.ca

Association of Saskatchewan Forestry Professionalswww.asfp.ca

BioForest Technologies Inc.www.bioforest.ca

Enterprise Saskatchewan PA Regional Officeswww.enterprisesaskatchewan.ca

FPInnovationswww.fpinnovations.ca

Government of SK Ministry of Energy and Resources, Forestry Development Division

Government of SK Ministry of Environmentwww.se.gov.sk.ca

Government of SK Ministry of Justice, Crown Prosecutionswww.justice.gov.sk.ca

Government of SK Ministry of Justice, Victim/Witness Serviceswww.justice.gov.sk.ca

Hamel International Consulting Inc.www.hamelinternational.com

KBM Resources Groupwww.kbmrg.com

Meadow Lake OSB Limited Partnershipwww.tolko.com

MNP LLPwww.mnp.ca

North Central Enterprise Regionwww.ncer.ca

Prince Albert Model Forest Association Inc.www.pamodelforest.sk.ca

Saskatchewan Forestry Associationwww.whitebirch.ca

Saskatchewan Research Councilwww.src.sk.ca

Zatlyn Law Office

ALBERTAedMOnTOn ReSeaRCH paRk

ABSA (Alberta Boilers Safety Association)www.absa.ca

Advance-Tek Consultingwww.advance-tek.ca

Afexa Life Sciences Inc.www.afexa.com

Alberta Innovates Technology Futures (AITF)www.albertatechfutures.ca

All Construction Design Inc.www.allconstructiondesign.com

Apex Engineering Inc.www.apex-engineering.com

AVAC Ltd.www.avacltd.com

Bentley Nevadawww.ge-mcs.com/en/bently-nevada.html

BioNeutra Inc.www.bioneutra.ca

Bramm Technologies Inc.www.brammtech.com

C-FER Technologies Inc.www.cfertech.com

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Cliniysiswww.clinisys.co.uk

CSA Internationalwww.csa-international.org

Coole Immersive Inc.www.cooleimmersive.com

Digital Fracture Technologies

Dycor Technologies Ltd.www.dycor.com

EMD Serono Canada Inc.www.emdserono.ca

Epsilon Chemicals Ltd.www.echem.ca

Fission Media Groupwww.fissionmedia.com

Frontech Solutions Inc.www.frontech.ca

GlycAlta Chemical and Technical Services

HeadCount Corporationwww.headcount.com

IMBiotechnologies Ltd.www.imbiotechnologies.com

Innovative Trauma Carewww.innovativetraumacare.com

Innovotechwww.innovotech.ca

Intellimediawww.intellimedia.ca

Intertek Testingwww.intertek-cb.com

Intriga Mobilitywww.berryworx.com

i-Wellsite Technology Inc.

Learn Energy

Koradian Trade

Logican Technologies Inc.www.logican.com

McMole Technologies Inc.

Micralyne Inc.www.micralyne.com

MiTAB Inc.

National Research Council Canadawww.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/irap-pari/index.html

Obsidian Researchwww.obsidianresearch.com

OSEEDS Inc.

Phytovox

PKL Technologieswww.pkltechnologies.com

Project 39http://project39.net

PureInboxwww.pureinbox.com

Quantiam Technologies Inc.www.quantiam.com

QUEST Quality Managementwww.crownrelo.com/quest

Quest PharmaTech Inc.www.questpharmatech.com

Schlumberger DBR Research Centrewww.slb.com

SciMed Technologies Inc.www.scimedtechnologies.com

Serene Tech Inc.www.serenetechnologies.ca

SinoVeda Canada Inc.www.sinoveda.com

Syncrude Canada Inc.www.syncrude.ca

Syngar Technologies Ltd.www.syngar.com

TC Scientificwww.tcscientific.com

The Carbon Basis Company Ltd.www.carbonbasis.com

VRStorm - Spectrum Cloud Computingwww.vrstorm.com

ZEDIwww.zedisolutions.com

innOVaTe CalgaRY

Accumol Inc.www.accumol.com

Aksys Networks Inc.www.aksysnetworks.com

Alberta Advanced Education and Technologywww.aet.alberta.ca

Alberta Enterprise Corporation (AEC)www.alberta-enterprise.ca

Alberta ICT Councilwww.albertaict.ca

AMIS International Agriculture Consultingwww.amisinterag.com

Area 51 Machine Designwww.area51machinedesign.com

Argon Venture Partners

Asequa Inc.www.asequa.com

ASTech Foundationwww.astech.ab.ca

Axial Information Technologieswww.axitg.com

Baseband Technologies Inc.www.basebandtech.com

Betach Solutions Inc.www.betach.com

Blubrown Communications Incwww.blubrown.com

Brightsquid Inc.www.brightsquid.com

Business Maestros Information Technology Inc

Business Productivity Groupwww.calgaryinternetmarketing.ca

Calgary Council for Advanced Technology (CCAT)www.ccat.org

CANATEC Associates International Ltd.www.canatec.ca

Clear View Communications Canada Corpwww.clrv.ca

CLINICARE Corporationwww.clinicare.com

Coalese Corporationwww.coalese.com

codeExcellence Incwww.codeexcellence.com

Complex System Incwww.complexsysteminc.com

Computer Modelling Group (CMG) Ltd.www.cmgl.ca

CTI Refining Inc.www.cti-advantage.com

Digital Albertawww.digitalalberta.com

Digital Homes Canada Inc.www.digitalhomes.com

E.M. Ashmore & Associates Inc.www.ashmore-assoc.com

EcDev Solutions Ltd.

Eli Lilly Canada Inc.www.lilly.ca

Fame Biorefinery Corp.www.famebiorefinery.com

Floodtech

Gennum Corporationwww.gennum.com

Genome Albertawww.genomealberta.ca

Globegeti Enterprises

Glue Solutionswww.gluehq.com

Goforth Institutewww.goforthinstitute.com

Graham Davies Geological Consultantswww.gdgc.com

Harvest Ventures Inc.www.harvestvi.com

Hatsoft Inc.http://hatsoft.ca

Hybrid Wireless Inc.www.hybridwirelessinc.com

iConnectivitywww.iconnectivity.com

Impac Canadawww.impacservices.com

InfoTech Alberta

Inico Technologies Ltd.www.inicotech.com

Innervision Medial Technologies Inc.www.innermed.com

Innovate Calgarywww.innovatecalgary.com

Innovative Licensing & Promotionwww.2innovative.net

iNovia Capital - Calgarywww.inoviacaptial.com

Intellog Inc.www.intellog.com

The Investment Exchange Corporationwww.theinvestmentexchange.com

ITRES Research Ltd.www.itres.com

Kirchner Private Capital Groupwww.kirchnerpcg.com

Level Up Society

MacKenCo Consultingwww.mackenco.com

Marketing Directionswww.marketingdirectons.org

MathWitwww.mathwit.com

Maxima Divestitures Group Incwww.maximadivestitures.com

Mirano Systems Incwww.mirano.ca

Mobile Dexterity Inc

Mobizouwww.mobizou.com

Nalco Canada Inc.www.nalco.com

National Research Council (NRC) - Calgarywww.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca

New Energy Corporation Inc.www.newenergycorp.ca

North Loudoun Corporationwww.northloudon.com

O.G.C. Inc.www.ogcinc.ca

OME Group Consultants

Omnibus IP Inc.

OptEM Engineering Inc.www.optem.com

Orpyx Medical Technologieswww.orpyx.com

Osborne Interim Managementwww.osborne-group.com

PCCabling (Canada) Limitedwww.pccgroup.ca

Pontis Energy Inc.www.pontisenergy.com

Pragmatic Solutions Ltd.www.safety.pragmatic-solutions.com/index.php

Preo Software Inc.www.preosoftware.com

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PWC) - Calgarywww.pwc.com

Process Pathwayswww.processpathways.com

Protroleum Technologies Ltd.www.pvtprop.com

Psyko Audio Labs Inc.www.psykoaudo.com

PYXIS Innovation - Calgarywww.pyxisinnovation.com

QuIC Financial Technologies Inc.www.quic.com

Rad3 Communicationswww.rad3comm.com

Redwood Technologieswww.redwoodtech.com

Resverlogix Corp.www.resverlogix.com

RightsX Inc.www.rightsx.ca

RxWave International Inc.

Smart Muffler Coporationwww.smartmuffler.com

SMB Phonehttp://hookflash.com

Society for Technical Communication (STC Alberta)www.stc-alberta.org

Solar Engineering Group Ltd.www.solarengineeringgroup.com

Sparta Capital Ltd.www.spartacapital.com

Standing Stones Consulting Ltd.www.standing-stones.com

Synovate International Inc.

Tech Avenue Ventures (TAV)www.taventures.ca

Technology Tax Credits Ltd.www.sredservices.ca

Tecterrawww.tecterra.com

Telligent Corporationwww.telligent.ca

The Calgary Science Networkwww.calgarysciencenetworkca

The Centre for Innovation Studies (THECIS)www.thecis.ca

TheraCarb Inc.www.theracarb.com

Trusted Positioning Inc.www.trustedpositioning.com

Tycrid Platform Technologies Inc.www.tycrid.com

Udaxwww.udax.com

Ulistic Inc.www.ulistic.com

Van Horne Institutewww.vanhorne.info

Venture Albertawww.venturealberta.com

Wedge Networkswww.wedgenetworks.com

Wmode Inc.www.wmode.com

Xpan Interactive Ltd.www.xpan.ca

Yaletown Venture Partnerswww.yaletown.com

ZST Holdings Inc. (Zephyr)

BRITISH COLUMBIAdiSCOVeRY paRkS

1-800-GOT-JUNK? www.1800gotjunk.com

3AG Systems Inc.www.3agsystems.com

Acuere Consulting www.acuere.ca

Augurex Life Sciences Corpwww.augurex.com

Awesense Wireless www.awesense.com

Backbone Systems www.backbonesystems.ca

BC Aquatic Food Resources

BioteQ Environmental Technologies Inc. www.bioteq.ca/water- treatment

Bishop & Company

BN Pharmaceuticals Inc. www.bnpharma.com

Business Alliance Technologies www.batinc.ca

Conquer Mobile www.conquermobile.com


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Danz Gourmet www.danzgourmet.com

Dynamic Energy Solutions dynamicenergysolutions.net

Fuseforward www.fuseforward.com

Goodall Rubber Corporation of Canada www.goodallonline.com

Hothead Games www.hotheadgames.com

Industrious Nature Technologies

Innovative Targeting Solutions Inc. www.innovativetargeting.com

JML Biopharm Inc. www.jmlbiopharm.com

Lifebank Cryogenics Corporationwww.lifebank.com

Lignol Energy Corporation www.lignol.ca

Mark Anthony Group www.markanthony.com

Mark Betteridge & Associates

Mavi Innovations www.mavi-innovations.ca

Mold & Bacteria Consulting Services www.moldbacteria.com

Methylation Sciences Inc. (MSI)www.methylationsciences.com

MyArtChannel Canadawww.myartchannel.com

Nanocritical Corp.

New Energy Corporation www.newenergycorp.ca

Nova-BioRubber Green Technologies Inc www.novabiorubber.com

Novation Pharmaceuticals Inc. www.novation-pharma.com

Philips Ledalite architectural Products www.ledalite.com

QLT Inc. www.qltinc.com

Qu Biologics www.qubiologics.com

Rayonnant Imaging Systems Inc.

Secodix www.secodix.com

SFU Venture Labs ventureconnection.sfu.ca

Shailah Interactive Inchttp://shailahinteractive.com

Square Data Facilities www.square.ca

SterileCare Inc.

Superna Life Sciences www.supernapharma.comSustaiNet Software Solutions Inc. www.sustainet.com

Synganix Science Inc.

Tech BA www.techba.org/en/Vancouver

Terramera BioSciences www.terramera.com

Troowin Canada

viDA Therapeutics www.vidatherapeutics.com

ViewsIQ www.viewsiq.ca

Welichem Biotech Inc. www.welichem.com

VanCOuVeR iSland TeCHnOlOgY paRk

Alberta Innovates Technology Futureswww.albertainnovates.ca

BC Ambulance 911 Dispatchwww.healthservices.gov bc.ca/bcas/index/html

Boardwalk Communicationswww.bdwalk.biz

Canadian Gene Cure Foundationwww.genecure.ca

CISCO Systems Inc.www.cisco.com/web/Ca

Compugen Inc.www.compugen.com

Cebas Visual Technology Incwww.cebas.com

Youneeq Personalization Enginewww.youneeq.ca

Fixstars Canada

Gas Power Technologies

Geffen Gourmet Catering and the HardDrive Caféwww.geffencatering.ca

Genologics Life Sciences Software Inc.www.genologics.com

Gerbrecht Consulting Services

HP Advanced Solutions Inc.www.hpadvancedsolutions.com

HP Enterprise Services Canadahttp://h10134.www1.hp.com

ImmunoPrecise Antibodies Ltd.www.immuno-precise.com

JASCO Research Ltd.www.jasco.com

LifeLabs Medical Laboratory Serviceswww.lifelabs.com

OA Solutionswww.oasolutions.ca

Maxxam Analyticswww.maxxam.ca

CityView | Harris Computerwww.harriscomputer.com

Plus ROIwww.plusroi.com

Poncho Wilcox Engineering

RevenueWire Inc.www.revenuewire.com

SOHO Computer Services Ltd.www.sohoservices.com

Uberdavewww.uberdave.com

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