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January 2012 Transforming ’s economy through innovation and entrepreneurship

“One of the paradoxes of this time, however, is this: while the global economy lags, innovation continues to surge ahead at a staggering and unprecedented pace.” 2011 Ontario throne speech

“We [in Ontario] have a wide prosperity gap with other large North American jurisdictions. The source of this gap is our inability to be as innovative as we could be in our economic life.

“Our business leaders … must relentlessly pursue improved products, services, and processes.”

Roger Martin, Tenth Annual Report, Task Force on Competitiveness, Productivity and Economic Progress, November 2011

Because innovation is an inherently social process – requiring people to make connections, develop ideas, and orchestrate implementation – colleges have built relationships to help their clients increase their scope of innovative practices. Each college is directly involved with many local economic development and innovation networks.

“Centennial’s professors and students have provided a pool of talent that has proven invaluable to the development and validation of our cleantech solutions.” John Tuerk, Blue Heron Systems

“The [Fanshawe College] students exceeded our expectations and not just from the content point of view, but in their professionalism ... the recommendation to track venture capital was a novel idea the company had not considered. 3M later adopted a similar approach as a global business strategy.” 3M Canada

Ontario needs more businesses Ontario needs more researchers, performing R&D especially technicians (% of employer businesses) (% of population)

Quebec Ontario

US 3.5 % 3.4% Technicians 2.2%

Quebec 3.3 % 3.5% Professionals 3.3%

Ontario 2.3 % 0.0% 1.0% 2.0% 3.0% 4.0%

0.0% 1.0% 2.0% 3.0% 4.0% Sources: Statistics Canada, Table 051-0001 “Population by year, by Source: Conference Board of Canada, Innovation Catalysts and Accelerators: province and territory”; and “Industrial Research and Development: The Impact of Ontario Colleges’ Applied Research (2010), p.8. Intentions – 2010”.

2 Ontario is a central, integrated player in North America’s advanced manufacturing heartland (Michigan, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, and Indiana). The recent world recession, and the high Canadian dollar, has exacerbated the need to transform Ontario’s economy to offset waning markets and industries. Yet Ontario’s Task Force on Competitiveness, Productivity and Economic Progress points to Ontario’s “lacklustre” productivity performance compared to other provinces and leading U.S. states.

Ontario risks following its U.S. partner states into rust-belt status.

Currently, about 9,400 firms in Ontario are research performers – only 2.3 per cent of all firms.1

For Ontario to compete in the global economy, many more firms must become innovation leaders. Other countries are competing harder – for example, China has tripled its spending on postsecondary education in the past decade and has attracted more than 600 foreign corporations to set up applied R&D facilities.

The large majority of Ontario entrepreneurs have not been taught the how-to of innovation, and do not have the cash flow or business motivation to hire teams of researchers.

For Ontario to prosper, new approaches are required to help many more businesses learn to talk innovation, to walk innovation, so that they can start running the marathon that international competition has become.

“The partnership developed with Lambton… has been invaluable. The ability to do research on biomass fuels and gasification on a small scale will help create a significant advantage when becoming involved in large scale projects … We believe that our relationship with the college is beneficial for both ourselves and the faculty and students involved.” Charles Dally, Enertech Inc.

1 Statistics Canada, Industrial Research and Development: Intentions – 2010; and Industry Canada, Key Small Business Statistics, July 2011.

3 Catching up to Quebec

Small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), responsible for more than half of Ontario’s employment and economic growth, must play a key role in the innovation agenda. However, they need a distinctive approach to innovation assistance. They can contribute much more to local economic growth if they get effective help with incremental innovation: market- driven problem solving, including product development and prototyping, production process improvements and market research.

Ontario’s SMEs lag far behind their innovative competitors in Quebec:

• There are 9,400 Ontario businesses that perform R&D. An additional 5,500 are needed to reach the per capita level of Quebec.

• There are 29,000 technicians employed in R&D in Ontario. An additional 17,000 are needed to reach the per capita level of Quebec. In comparison, the gap for R&D personnel with degrees (including advanced degrees) is only 2,700.2

One reason for Quebec’s success is undoubtedly that it has invested significantly in its network of college centres for the transfer of technology (CCTT) over past decades (now $14 million annually compared to Ontario’s annual $3.3 million investment). The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council’s Technology Access Centres pilot program builds on the Quebec success story by strengthening centres of expertise across the country.

Ontario colleges have the potential to catch up. They are proving to be natural drivers for SME innovation: they have strong existing relationships with SMEs in each sector, in 200 communities across the province, and in both French and English. College graduates also play a critical role in implementing public priorities such as energy (47 per cent of sector employment), health care (47 per cent of sector employment), transportation, infrastructure, and regional and local development. They are also the source of R&D technicians.

Quebec provides much higher applied Ontario colleges effectively lever base research base funding to colleges funding into NSERC-CCI projects – but than Ontario ($ millions annually) need help to compete fully with Quebec

Ontario – provincial base Ontario – if as successful $3.3 26 funding to colleges as Quebec

Quebec – provincial base $14.0 funding to colleges Ontario – actual 19

$0.0 $5.0 $10.0 $15.0 01020 30 Projects Sources: Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council; and Sources: Réseau Trans-tech; Ministère l’Éducation, du Loisir et du Sport; and Colleges Ontario. Colleges Ontario.

2 Statistics Canada, Industrial Research and Development: Intentions – 2010. 4 Ontario has responded to the opportunity to increase small- and medium-sized enterprise (SME)-led innovation by funding the Colleges Ontario Network for Industry Innovation (CONII) as a pilot program. The provincial government’s $10.2 million in seed funding over three years has enabled colleges (as key participants in Ontario’s Network of Excellence [ONE]) to respond to SMEs, generating metrics that matter: they work with 480 industry partners, many on multiple innovation projects. Depending on the local community, research focus, etc., about 25 to 50 per cent of college-assisted SMEs are younger than five years.

“Through applied research collaborations, Ontario colleges are emerging as innovation catalysts and accelerators, helping Ontario businesses overcome barriers to research and innovation. Ontario college–business applied research collaborations stimulate new research and innovation activities that would otherwise not occur. [They] contribute to product, process, and service improvements; reduce time to market; and increase business R&D spending and activity… Ontario colleges are well positioned to … address a key weakness in Canada’s overall innovation performance—namely, underperformance of Canadian firms, especially SMEs, in R&D spending and innovative activity.”

Daniel Munro and Joseph Haimowitz (Conference Board of Canada), Innovation Catalysts and Accelerators: The Impact of Ontario Colleges’ Applied Research, November 2010

“Checkfluid is happy to be working with Niagara College. After several months of working with the students and faculty, we were impressed with their dedication, responsiveness, and their ability to understand our research ideas and goals.” Mike Hall, Checkfluid Inc.

“[Georgian College’s] research efforts have paved the way to the commercialization of EnvirAnode.“ Todd Sirola, SAE Inc.

5 Colleges and 480 industry partners innovating together

Results that matter: Stronger economy Results that matter: College-trained, highly qualified personnel Colleges help SMEs solve immediate problems and meet specific goals, through applied, College graduates are key to ensuring market-driven R&D and commercialization. innovative and productive workplaces across the economy, across the province and in both “Funding for applied research is modest, the French and English. scale of activity is limited, and many Ontario colleges are new to applied research—but the In the past three years, more than 3,500 results of completed projects are impressive. college students have gained new skills from Ontario colleges’ applied research activities their participation in innovation projects, and are improving firm performance, stimulating colleges have added innovation and entre- new business R&D spending, contributing preneurial components to almost 300 courses. to local economic and social development, and providing students with industry-relevant Just recently, Niagara College received education and training. In particular: $2.2 million from FedDev Ontario’s Graduate Enterprise Internship Funding to arrange up “Product and Process Benefits to 200 internships with local businesses. • Nearly every college–business collaboration the Conference Board studied has led, or will • “[Sault College] can provide the necessary soon lead, to the development of a new or environment to cultivate students/graduates improved good, service, or process. and allow them to apply their learning in new, • Half the collaborations have led to a reduction exciting technology areas such as renewable in firms’ time to market. energies and advanced control systems.” Don Martone, DX2 Technologies Inc. “Sales, Markets, and Customer Benefits • Eighty per cent of the collaborations have • “The students worked alongside professional resulted in, or are expected to result in, engineers, but they did 70 per cent of the increased sales and revenues for the firm. work,” Mark Surman, Mozilla Foundation, • Firms also reported improved market position on Seneca College’s contribution to Popcorn. (79 per cent), new markets (58 per cent), new customers (76 per cent), and improved • “We are very pleased with the [Cambrian customer satisfaction (59 per cent). College] student involvement as they may lead to a source of potential employees.” Ray “Research and Innovation Capacity Carr, Precision Door Industries • Many firms reported improvements in their capacity and motivation to pursue • “George Brown has been instrumental in research and innovation as a result of the getting the business off the ground.” Ward collaborations. Warkentin, Fleetmetrica. While IT students • Approximately one-third of the projects led to worked with Fleetmetrica’s team to create the firms increasing their spending on R&D, while product, students from the School of Business another 10 per cent anticipated spending helped with marketing and design. more in the future.” • “Innovative Solutions is honoured to be working [with] Durham College… We’re Daniel Munro and Joseph Haimowitz thrilled to have a part to play in…the (Conference Board of Canada). development of the students as they pursue Innovation Catalysts and Accelerators: their research projects.” Roland Kielbasiewicz The Impact of Ontario Colleges’ Applied Research, November 2010

6 Results that matter: recognized centres Results that matter: regional for innovation and entrepreneurship development and public priorities

Colleges build on well-established partnerships Colleges strengthen SME access to Ontario’s within their communities, their traditional role Network of Excellence (ONE) through their in skills training and knowledge transfer, and links with Regional Innovation Networks, with responsiveness to employer-identified market regional and private organizations and local needs and challenges. universities.

Twenty-two Industry Innovation Centres (up Regional Development from 10) provide one-stop help to innovators and constitute a critical entry point to Ontario’s « Ce partenariat avec Symboticware représente Network of Excellence [ONE] in many une excellente occasion d’impliquer nos communities across Ontario ($10.2 million from étudiants dans des activités d’apprentissage Ontario). aux retombées pédagogiques et communautaires directes… » Daniel Giroux, Ontario colleges have secured $50 million in Collège Boréal federal funding, including $40 million in multi- year federal funding [NSERC-CCI], for applied FedDev Ontario’s Applied Research and research tools and to establish recognized Commercialization Initiative addresses the centres of expertise. unique research and innovation challenges faced by small- and medium-sized enterprises • Advanced manufacturing: Real-time by helping 14 colleges to provide their Production [Sheridan]. applied research and development and pre- commercialization expertise to businesses that • Biotechnology, health and services: do not have the internal capacity to undertake Mobilizing Technology Solutions - Health those activities: [Centennial]; Health & information Technologies and Health Promotion [George Algonquin, Centennial, Conestoga, Durham, Brown]; Bioval orisation [La Cité collégiale]; Fleming , La Cité collégiale, George Brown, National Electronic Health Records Solution Lambton, Loyalist, Mohawk, Niagara, St. [Mohawk]; Food and Culinary Innovation Lawrence, Seneca, Sheridan. [Niagara]; Elder Research [Sheridan]. Public Policy • Digital economy: Full Spectra [Algonquin];

User Experience Design [Algonquin]; Flight Colleges have also secured funding from Simulation [Seneca]; Open Technology organizations such as: [Seneca]. • Energy: Renewable Energy [Durham]; Solar Canada Health Infoway; Canadian Cancer Energy Technology [Georgian]; Renewable Society; Canadian Institutes of Health Research; Energy Conversion and Storage [Lambton]; Canadian Mental Health Association; Centre Energy Technology [Mohawk]; Sustainability for Addiction & Mental Health; LDC Tomorrow Energy [St. Lawrence]. [energy innovation]; NetHope [problems in the developing world]; Ontario Lung Association; • Resources: Phyto-extraction of Heavy Metals Ontario Media Development Corporation; from Contaminated Sudbury Soils [Cambrian]; SHARCNET [high performance computing]; and Sustainable Environments [Fanshawe]; the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Alternative Wastewater Treatment [Fleming]; Council. Sustain Niagara: Supporting Innovation in Agricultural Land Management [Niagara].

7 Investing in economic prosperity: Helping small businesses innovate and create jobs

“Ontario shares the federal government’s interest in enhancing business innovation.” 2011 Ontario Economic Outlook and Fiscal Review, p. 112

Ontario colleges must be positioned to compete more effectively for more than $100 million in announced federal funding for college-based innovation and applied research projects.

Ontario college opportunity: secure Ontario college opportunity: secure federal funding for Information and federal funding for new innovation communications technology (ICT) programs for colleges

“Given that the production and application of Federal funding opportunity: Thirty-five grants ICT played the central role in stimulating very to colleges will strengthen their centres of strong productivity growth in the U.S. over expertise to help innovative businesses ($13 the past decade or more, the lagging ICT million - College and Community Innovation investment record of the private sector Program). These new partnerships are in Canada is a source of great concern.” intended to provide skills training for students, position Canadian colleges as a destination Review of Federal Support to Research for top applied research talent, and give and Development – Expert Panel Report, local businesses access to the knowledge 2011, pp. 1-2 and 2-18 and resources they need to innovate and commercialize new products and services Federal funding opportunity: The Digital Technology Adoption Pilot Program (DTAPP) Federal funding opportunity: The new is an $80-million, three-year program to boost College-University Idea to Innovation program the productivity of small- and medium-sized will provide $12 million over five years enterprises (SMEs) and improve Canada’s for successful college-university-business digital economy. With the participation of partnerships. Awards will be up to $250,000 colleges, the federal government will support per year for both college and university more than 600 SMEs with advisory services and applicants, with business partners matching this funding to help them adopt digital technology. contribution in cash and/or in kind.

Ontario college positioning: 4,000 graduates Federal funding opportunity: The College and annually in the ICT sector and across the Community Innovation Program continues to economy. Of 54 unique college programs offer multi-year Innovation Enhancement Grants now offered, more than 60 per cent are new of up to $2.3 million, as well as other applied or substantially modified compared to a research support grants. decade ago. Federal funding opportunity: FEDDEV Ontario’s Applied Research and Commercialization initiative is being extended for one year, with funding of up to $15 million, to enable postsecondary institutions to assist more businesses while their current projects are being completed and evaluated.

8 “We’ll triple the number of successful start-up companies in Ontario in the next five years…We’ll focus on some of our youngest and brightest minds, providing increased dedicated support to our young entrepreneurs.” 2011 Liberal platform

“I’m interested in starting my own business so I thought it would be great to work with somebody who’s in the process of doing the same thing.” Sean McNeill, Humber global business management student

Leo and Jerad Godreault [Mohawk students] formed their start-up, the Imaginauts, drawing on Leo’s insight into patient care as a nursing student and Jerad’s technical know-how as a software development student. Their mobile application will enable users to manage their medications more effectively.

Budget request:

Ontario must continue to invest in research that produces a commercial return, supporting innovations that help businesses bring new products to market and new processes that enhance their competitiveness. A report released last year by the Conference Board of Canada found the applied research activities at Ontario’s colleges play a significant part in driving innovation, particularly in partnerships with small- and medium-sized firms that don’t have the resources to conduct the research on their own.

Colleges are assuming the current funding for Colleges Ontario Network for Industry Innovation (CONII) will be maintained and are requesting an additional $6 million over three years.

• This additional funding will enable colleges to work with more small- and medium-sized businesses.

• It will also help colleges to compete more effectively for more than $100 million in announced federal funding for college-based innovation and applied research projects.

CONII REQUEST ($millions) YR 1 YR 2 YR 3 Projects $1.3 $2.1 $2.6

College Industry Innovation Centres – 24 $2.9 $2.9 $2.9

Network for Innovation & Entrepreneurship $0.4 $0.4 $0.4

TOTAL $4.8 $5.4 $5.9

LESS ON-GOING BASE FUNDING -3.3 -3.3 -3.3

NET NEW FUNDING $1.3 $2.1 $2.6

9 Colleges and 480 industry partners innovating together

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