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2017 HIGHLIGHTS
WHAT IF... CANADA COULD BRING TOGETHER THE BEST MINDS TO TACKLE THE TOUGHEST CHALLENGES?
CANADIANS DID
It’s the Networks of Centres of Excellence.
And it’s working!
Helping Canadians Innovate
The prosperity and well-being of Canadians depends on making new discoveries and transforming them into products, services, policies, and processes that improve people’s lives. The NCE’s strategic support of incubators, accelerators, and other knowledge translation initiatives helps mobilize Canada’s best research, development, and entrepreneurial expertise and focus it on issues of strategic importance.
There are no quick fixes when it comes to complex challenges around job creation, environmental sustainability, and the health, safety and well-being of Canadians. That’s why the NCE takes a flexible approach to supporting research excellence and innovation through its various strategic initiatives.
By the numbers (2015-2016)
Who are we?
Canada’s go-to networks and centres for research, commercialization and knowledge mobilization.
What we do?
We connect entrepreneurs, researchers, investors, accelerators and innovators from across Canada to create a critical mass of expertise to develop, test and evaluate proven solutions. We then share, adapt and scale up those solutions nationally and globally.
Why it works?
Diversity and inclusion are Canada’s strengths. The NCE brings together diverse scientific fields, industry sectors and public and local partners to develop practical solutions that empower Canadian families, communities and job-creators.
Here are our achievements
Personalized cancer treatment can match experimental drugs with the patients who would benefit the most. Read more
More than 190 countries adopted an agreement in 2016 to curb rising emissions from international air travel. Read more
Telecommunications companies won’t gamble on network security and reliability. Read more
KalGene Pharmaceuticals Inc. and the National Research Council discovered how to deliver drugs past the blood-brain barrier – a critical obstacle to treating Alzheimer’s and other neurological diseases. Read more
Canada’s clean tech sector has generated more than 55,000 jobs with about 800 mostly small or medium-sized companies. Read more
Several countries are preparing for the opening of Arctic waterways caused by climate change, and the resulting opportunities for resource development and shipping. Read more
Consumers are increasingly demanding products derived from natural sources based on their health and environmental benefits. Read more
Despite having a reputation of inclusion and tolerance, Canada ranks in the bottom third of 28 developed countries for preventing bullying and victimization. Read more
The World Bank ranks Canada the second easiest place in the world to start a business. Read more
Frail older adults living in rural areas often don’t have access to the same health and social services available in big cities. Read more
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a chronic progressive disease affecting more than 700,000 people. Read more
Expanding into international markets is a daunting prospect for cash-strapped startups. Read more
Each year millions of patients receive radiopharmaceuticals – drugs that contain a medical isotope used to both diagnose and treat cancer and other diseases. Read more
Developing a new drug starts with identifying the molecule – or target – involved in a disease. Read more
In June 2016, GHGSat launched “Claire,” the world’s first monitoring satellite designed to help companies measure greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from industrial sites more safely, reliably and cost-effectively. Read more
Montréal’s pharmaceutical research cluster was under threat as global companies began shuttering their R&D facilities earlier this decade in response to rising drug development costs and fewer blockbuster drugs. Read more
Whales, dolphins and porpoises off British Columbia’s coast face many threats, including underwater noise from vessels. Read more
Canada’s biotechnology sector is fueled by a pipeline of world-class university science, but a lack of capital and experienced business leaders has resulted in many young firms failing or being sold to foreign companies. Read more
Organizations that work with youth want to know that the programs they deliver are having a positive impact. Read more
The development of nanoparticles—tiny, virus-sized elements developed in a laboratory—is moving us closer to a new age of precision medicine for cancer and other diseases. Read more
