Canadian: Canadian Association of Technology Research Parks
The 3rd annual conference of the Association of University Research Parks Canada saw nearly thirty representatives from Canada's research parks reach an agreement that will help create a formal association that will group together the 17 Canadian research parks.
Mayor of Saint-Laurent, Mr. Alan DeSousa congratulated the instigators of the research park project. This includes such people as Mr. Claude Normandeau, President-Executive Director of the Technoparc Saint-Laurent, Mr. Austin Beggs, Director, Corporate Relations, at Saskatoon-based Innovation Place, and Mr. Dale Gann, Vice-President of the Vancouver Island Technology Park at the University of Victoria.
Alan DeSousa said of the project, "In our opinion, university research parks provide the ideal environment for synergy and interconnectivity which are at the very heart of the technological clusters we have adopted to chart the future of the Montreal economy."
Canada's technology and research parks currently employ more than 90,000 Canadian workers. This makes the research parks very important regional economic development tools in their own right.
This coalition will notably help Canada's technology parks to more effectively defend their submissions to Government and raise their profile vis-à-vis Canada's innovation sectors. It will also help spur technology transfers and partnerships between the parks.
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