This has been a great week for the cleantech sector in the City of Ottawa. With a 22-1 vote Ottawa city council approved a 20 year deal with Plasco Energy Group to process half of the city’s municipal solid waste with their plasma gasification process. This is good news for a number of reasons: First ...

Read the full story

by An Thien Ngo, Ph.D. I had the opportunity to witness policy development in action at the recent Medical Devices Summit co-organized by OCRI and the Medical Devices Innovation Institute. Representatives from across the medical devices sector had gathered at the Summit on October 13-14 to assemble recommendations and strategies to achieve this sector’s potential ...

Read the full story

Canada’s diverse clean technology industry is broad and deep, comprised of over 600 technology companies spanning nine sectors. In 2010 Canadian clean technology revenues were $9.1 billion with the potential to reach $18 billion in the next five years, and $60 billion in the next ten years. However, 40 percent of those revenues were generated ...

Read the full story

It is with regret that the organizing committee of the 2011 Canadian Cleantech Summit has decided to postpone the summit to a later date. This decision was not taken lightly but was influenced by several mitigating factors. The May 2nd federal election has certainly had a negative impact on the participation of both speakers and ...

Read the full story

I hold in my hands the first issue of Impact Magazine, a magazine that profiles the cleantech sector in Canada in all its diversity and promise while taking a realistic look at the sector’s challenges, assets and opportunities. Much like the Canadian Cleantech Summit it took the hard work of dedicated sector experts from all across Canada ...

Read the full story

Ottawa sits atop an enviable infrastructure for information and communications technology rivalled only by a tremendous amount of resident talent. Recent changes in the landscape of this sector locally has placed these resources in a unique position in Canada and perhaps North America to capitalize on emerging global opportunities in niche markets such as the ...

Read the full story

Welcome to  OCRI.tv where you can get caught up on who said what, when and how it can impact the way you approach your business on a daily basis. Currently, archives include media clips and entire presentations from our events to give you a full picture of what you’ve missed but going forward we’re just ...

Read the full story

Ottawa Features a “China Month” in June OCRI’s China strategy for Ottawa reached a new milestone in June. Two major objectives set for 2010 were to increase the number of invited delegations from China to Ottawa and to move from relationship building to a focus on deal generation. June saw those objectives reached. A key ...

Read the full story

The hunt for some of Canada’s most investable companies has begun again and I’m heading West to begin my search in earnest. I’ll be meeting with two of our partners, Alberta Enterprise Corporation, and some of the regional representatives of the Industrial Research Assistance Program (or NRC - IRAP) to talk about where these companies might be found in Western Canada.

Read the full story

June has been a particularly positive month for renewable energy companies in the Ottawa region. Cellulosic ethanol companies Ensyn and Iogen both had major announcements this month. First on June 3rd Iogen Corporation and Royal Dutch Shell announced a further investment into Iogen Energy to fund research and development activities at Iogen Energy until mid-2012. ...

Read the full story