Ontario Centers of Excellence (OCE), The Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters (CME) and Colleges Ontario are holding a workshop to discuss the CME’s Action Plan for Manufacturing. This workshop will be a great opportunity for Manufacturers and Exporters to share their opinions on the Action Plan and contribute to its objectives. Event Details: Date & Time: [...]

The National Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC)  is a key organization for promoting learning and innovation between students and universities with industry helping support Canada’s growth in innovation development.  Significant technological advancements have arisen from the post-secondary collaboration with  industry, and so NSERC has created several initiatives to help support their collaboration through a [...]

The Southern Ontario Smart Computing Innovation Platform (SOSCIP) Program is a consortium of IBM, the Canadian and Ontario governments along with seven universities led by the University of Toronto and Western University.   The Ontario Centre of Excellence (OCE) will help facilitate SME participation with academia in this applied research consortium and help SME’s leverage the [...]

The Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE) will be holding another edition of their annual Discovery Event Series. OCE Discovery attracts some of Canada’s leading innovators from all industries for a two day networking conference at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. When: May 27-28, 2013 Where: Metro Toronto Convention Centre – 255 Front St. W. – [...]

The OCE Market Readiness Program offers preliminary support and funding grants for small business to transfer academic based research into a new market-viable service or technology. Funding is intended to accelerate innovation and help Ontario-based SMEs bring a new product to market or to use the academic research as a basis for a new start-up [...]

If you possess an innovative healthcare, biotechnology, or life sciences product or service technology be sure to register for The Sanofi Pasteur Healthcare and Biotechnology Venture Challenge. The Ontario Network of Excellence, ventureLAB, has announced a competition open to technology innovators all across Ontario. This unique competition will: Foster an entrepreneurial culture Encourage collaboration to [...]

The Martin Walmsley Fellowship for Technological Entrepreneurship facilitates the transition of Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE) funded research into new business ventures. This competition fosters an entrepreneurial spirit within Ontario and honours the vision of Dr. Martin Walmsley in developing new innovative institutional structures. It will fund a post-secondary research student who has been associated with [...]