by Reza Akhlaghi | Mar 22, 2018 | Government Funding
Amir Feizpour is a Senior Manager at the Enterprise Data Science team at the Royal Bank of Canada. He is also a Scientific Advisor at SEMA Lab. At RBC, Amir manages a small team with a focus on enabling internal clients with data science tools and practices. Prior to...
by Brian Cookson | Feb 21, 2018 | Government Funding
Introduction: John Lester is a former federal government economist who writes on public policy issues. John’s last public service assignment was Director of Research for the Expert Panel Review of Federal Support to Research and Development. Prior to that, he managed...
by Andrea McPhail | Feb 20, 2018 | Government Funding
The following Piece was originally published in IT World Canada. What is needed to sustain momentum and success in Canada’s innovation superclusters? In February 2018, Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development, Navdeep Bains, introduced the five winners...
by Larry Arshoff | Jan 7, 2018 | Government Funding
Editor’s Note: Larry Arshoff is president and founder of Diagnosis, Solutions & Results Inc. (DS&R). He has over 30 years of experience in building and growing medical device and pharma businesses. Larry has over two decades executive and management...
by John Robinson | Dec 4, 2017 | Government Funding, Grants
In June and July of 2017 the Canadian Manufacturing Exporters (CME), in partnership with the Government of Ontario launched a $25 million fund known as CME SMART Green Program. The Fund was designed to assist eligible small- and medium-sized enterprise (SME)...
by Brian Cookson | Sep 13, 2017 | Government Funding
Since its opening, program officials responsible for the Strategic Innovation Fund (SIF) have been inundated with Statements of Interest, application requests and a whole range of inquiries from Canadian businesses about their eligibility. My sources tell me that...