Canada
Economic Development (CED)
Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions emphasizes innovation in order to fully implement its mandate, which is to promote the economic development of Quebec regions.
National
Research Council of Canada (NRC) -
Industrial
Research Assistance Program (IRAP)
As a key enabler within Canada's innovation system,
NRC-IRAP provides Canadian SMEs with value-added technological and
business advice, financial assistance and a range of other innovation
assistance. NRC-IRAP helps SMEs realize their full potential, converting
knowledge and innovation into strategic opportunities, jobs and
prosperity for all Canadians.
CANMET
Energy Technology Centre - Ottawa (CETC-O) The
CANMET Energy Technology Centre - Ottawa (CETC-O) is a key research
arm of Natural Resources Canada and is one of Canada's premier organizations
in the field of energy, science and technology. CETC-O works with
private and public sector partners to develop and deploy leading-edge
energy products. The result of these technologies is reduction of
environmental impacts, increased productivity and generated economic
growth in Canada.
Centre
québécois de valorisation des biotechnologies - CQVB
The CQVB is a key actor at the start of the commercialization process.
Through its network, the CQVB has a mandate to encourage innovation
among Quebec SMEs in the bio-industry sector and to support the
development and transfer of technologies resulting from research,
in order to generate new sources of collective wealth. The CQVB
is a general partner of the Bio-innovation Fund, which offers Quebec
companies in the bio-industry field, risk capital to help them in
the initial stage of technological innovation and development.
Natural
Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
Idea
to Innovation (I2I) Program
The role of the NSERC is to invest in people,
discovery and innovation for the benefit of all Canadians. The objective
of the Idea to Innovation (I2I) program is to accelerate the pre-competitive
development of promising technology and promote its transfer to
Canadian companies. The program supports research and development
projects with recognized technology transfer potential by providing
crucial assistance to university researchers in the early stages
of technology validation and commercial networking.
Ministère
de l'Agriculture, des Pêcheries et de l'Alimentation du Québec -
MAPAQ MAPAQ, the Quebec ministry of agriculture,
fisheries and foods, has revised its offer of services to support
aquaculture. It aims to develop this activity sector, banking on
the emergence of an industrial sector able to supply quality products
and on the use of technology for both commercial and sports fishing.
Under Quebec's Fisheries and Aquaculture Policy, aquaculture is
one of the avenues fostered by the Quebec government to reach its
objective of increasing the province's aquatic biomass.
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