Canadian Government R

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Canadian Government RD Support for the ICT
sectorWWRF4 November 2004

• Veena Rawat
• Communications Research Centre

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Content

• Canadian Government Innovation Strategy
• Federal RD Support
• Communications Research Centre (CRC)
• CRCs Key Strength in Wireless RD
• Commercialization
• Summary

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We must strive for Canada to become one of the
top five countries for RD by 2010 (Speech from
the Throne, Jan 2001)
The Government will develop policies to foster
Canadian capability in key enabling technologies
which will be drivers of innovation and
productivity in the 21st century economy (Speech
from the Throne, October 2004)
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Canadas RD Target

• Canadas goal is to be recognized as one of the
  most innovative countries in the world.
• In responding to the Speech from the Throne, the
  Prime Minister committed to at least double the
  current federal investment in research and
  development by the year 2010.

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CANADAS RD Goals -- Implications

• top five countries interpreted to mean within
  the OECD
• Canada is in 15th place with GERD/GDP of 1.85
• Trends in GERD/GDP indicate that to reach 5th
  place, Canadas GERD/GDP would have to exceed
  3.00 by 2010
• If federal spending on RD were to double by
  2010, business and university RD spending would
  have to almost triple to reach the 3.00 GERD/GDP
  target

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Canadas International Standing in RD

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Gross expenditure (M) on RD in 2003
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Prime Minister Strengthens Commitment to
Innovation

• Prime Minister Paul Martin emphasised the
  importance of innovation in building a 21st
  century economy when he announced a continuing
  focus on science and technology
• A new position of National Science Advisor to the
  Prime Minister (Dr. Arthur Carty)

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March 2004 Budget - Focus on Commercialization

• an increase of 90M/year for granting councils,
  with direction to triple current 10M/yr support
  for commercialization
• additional 20M/year to universities and research
  hospitals for their indirect costs with respect
  to commercialization
• 250M for the BDC to augment pre-seed and seed
  funding, specialized venture capital, and risk
  capital
• 50M/5 years to Industry Canada for a new pilot
  competitive commercialization fund
• 25M/5 years to Industry Canada for a pilot
  competitive commercialization fund for federal
  (non-regulatory) research labs

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RD Players in the Canadian ICT Sector

• Private Sector
• Federal Government Labs (CRC NRC)
• Universities Colleges
• 4th Pillar Organizations (Canarie, Precarn, CMC)
• Regional Labs Centres (TR Labs, IIT, CCMC,
  TARA, OCE-CITO and others)

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Concept to Commercialization
Market
Distant Ideas
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Federal RD Funding Programs

• NSERC - Universities
• CFI -Universities
• IRAP/IRAP TPC - SMEs
• TPC - Private Sector
• Direct Research Contract (CSA, DRDC)
• RD programs managed by 4th pillar organizations
  (CANARIE, PRECARN, CMC)

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Other Potential Funding Investment Sources

• Spectrum Licencees - 2 of revenue on RD and
  applications development
• Provincial Funding
• International - e.g.European Space Agency
• BDC
• VCs and Angels

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Examples of Consortia, Clusters Collaboration

• Ottawa Wireless Cluster (www.ottawawirelesscluster
  .com)
• CWCnet (www.cwcnet.ca)
• Canadian Photonic Consortium (www.photonics.ca)
• Grid Canada (www.gridcanada.ca)
• Regional Grids

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Hot Technologies in ICT sector

• Cognitive Radio
• Wireless Broadband Access (Wi-FI. Wi-Max, B3G)
• Network Security
• SDR
• RFID
• Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
• UWB
• P2P Applications
• Next Generation Internet

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Communications Research Centre
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Partnership
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Core Competencies

• Wireless Systems
• Communications Networks
• Radio Fundamentals
• Interactive Multimedia
• Photonics

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CRC Strengths in Wireless

• Modulation, coding and multiple access techniques
• Multimedia satellite terminal design and
  prototyping
• Satellite systems analysis and design
• Radiowave propagation
• Radio channel modeling, simulation,
  characterization and experimentation (e.g. UWB)
• Communication signal design to mitigate adverse
  propagation and interference effects
• spectrum surveillance
• QoS and Security for B3G

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CRC Strengths in Wireless

• Microelectronics and high-speed digital circuits
• Advanced techniques and facilities for antenna
  design and characterization
• Electromagnetic environment, noise and
  interference
• Electromagnetic field mapping, measurement and
  computational modeling
• High speed wireless Internet (MILTON)
• Wireless testbeds Wireless and Inter-networking
  Systems Experimentation Laboratory (WISELAB)
• Standards Development (IEEE, NATO, ITU)

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Examples of CRC Wireless Technologies Development
for Commercialization

• Cognitive Radio/Software Defined Radio
• Spectrum Explorer
• Turbo Codes
• Predict/CRC-COV
• Broadband Access
• MILTON, Ka-band Terminal
• Wireless Security
• Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

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Strategic Research Priorities(2004-2007)
Clients
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Summary

• Emphasis is on COMMERCIALIZATION
• For our part, CRC contributes to the
  commercialization by
• joint research collaboration
• technology transfer through
• Licencing
• Contracting-In
• Access to our test-beds and facilities
• Incubation Facilities
• CWCnet

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CRC

• Visit us at
• www.crc.ca