This work will help stakeholders gain an understanding of what deliberate interventions related to clean tech were made (by leading global jurisdictions) to foster innovation, attract investment, diversify the supply chain, and enhance long-term environmental performance within the industry. This is compared to the regulatory and innovation support ecosystem in Atlantic Canada, and a series of recommendations are made to drive and/or enable clean growth within the local industry.
This research compiled and thematically represented the R&D and innovation capacity of Canada’s offshore oil and gas industry as it relates to clean technology. This included an identification of areas of strength or emerging strength in the Atlantic region (e.g. by specific subject matter and/or collective capabilities) that could be leveraged to drive clean growth within the industry.
Understanding the related emerging requirements and expectations for supply chain participants will help ensure the competitiveness of firms in Atlantic Canada – or help local firms gain a competitive advantage. This is important from both the perspective of firms maintaining their market share in domestic oil and gas supply chains, and for firms engaging internationally.
Through B2R (business-to-research) matchmaking, the Cleantech Innovation Connector matched environmental challenges and opportunities within key Newfoundland and Labrador industries… with those interested in helping pursue solutions – researchers, entrepreneurs, and intrapreneurs within established innovative firms.
NEIA worked with its members to identify specific business challenges, identified local relevant research expertise, and set up meetings between the two to discuss potential collaborations. Conversely, NEIA worked with its academic institutional partners to identify exciting new clean technology research, and connected this expertise with interested firms and industry representatives to help chart possible pathways to commercialization.
Meetings took place at the Cleantech Innovation Connector, and participants were provided with information on funding programs that could assist in any potential collaborations that were explored.
The Innovation Connector matched clean technology opportunities within key Newfoundland and Labrador industries – oil and gas, forestry, mining, and aquaculture – with those interested in helping pursue solutions: researchers, entrepreneurs, and intrapreneurs within established innovative firms.
At the 2018 Clean Tech Innovation Connector, representatives from industry provided insight on the challenges they face from an environmental, sustainability, and/or clean growth perspective that, if solved, will contribute to the long-term success of their sectors.
The event aimed to help communicate industry needs and set the stage for targeted and deliberate clean technology development in Newfoundland and Labrador – by providing general guidance to the startup, business, research, and sector development communities.
The Clean Tech Innovation Connector featured presentations from:
Ed Moriarity – Executive Director – Mining Industry Newfoundland and Labrador
Bill Dawson – Executive Director – Newfoundland and Labrador Forestry Industry Association
Mark Lane – Executive Director – Newfoundland Aquaculture Industry Association
Kieran Hanley – Executive Director – Newfoundland and Labrador Environmental Industry Association
The Innovation Connector event matched clean technology research across multiple sectors of Newfoundland and Labrador’s economy with market opportunities and business needs.
The event helped discover local research expertise within our university and colleges with an eye to solving existing challenges or generating new business ideas and initiatives.
The event was part of Newfoundland and Labrador’s Innovation Week, a province-wide celebration focusing on furthering growth and developing new opportunities in sectors that include information technology, ocean technology, oil and gas and the green economy.
The Newfoundland and Labrador Environmental Industry Association (NEIA)’s Newleef 2015 conference featured a research matching event as part of its agenda.
The objective of this session was to provide businesses with the opportunity to present specific environmental challenges and opportunities that they were facing, while researchers from Memorial University and the College of the North Atlantic presented on their ongoing research projects and interests.
Presenters in both cases were pre-qualified in advance with the intention to allow for ‘matches’ to be made between business and academia on specific topics. Funding agencies participated in the event to provide information on the resources that they had available to support matches that were being explored.
The event agenda can be downloaded here, with a summary of research presentations here.
The Newfoundland and Labrador Environmental Industry Association (NEIA)’s Newleef 2014 conference featured a research matching event as part of its agenda.
The objective of this session was to provide businesses with the opportunity to present specific environmental challenges and opportunities that they were facing, while researchers from Memorial University and the College of the North Atlantic presented on their ongoing research projects and interests.
Presenters in both cases were pre-qualified in advance with the intention to allow for ‘matches’ to be made between business and academia on specific topics. Funding agencies participated in the event to provide information on the resources that they had available to support matches that were being explored.
The event agenda can be downloaded here, with a summary of research presentations here.
