00000nam 2200000za 4500 9.839384 CaOODSP 20221107151606 cr ||||||||||| 170710s2007 onc #o f000 0 eng d CaOODSP eng n-cn--- NS3-63/2007E-PDF College and Community Innovation Pilot Program mid-term review [electronic resource] : final report. [Ottawa] ; Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, 2007. iv, 28 p. Issued also in French under title: Programme pilote d'innovation dans les collèges et la commaunautê, examen à mi-mandat. Cover title. "May 2007." « In the fall of 2002, NSERC Senior Management visited 19 community colleges across the country to learn more about the form, nature, and scope of applied research that is being carried out in Canadian colleges. Moreover, an understanding of the role colleges play in the overall innovation spectrum was sought. What was found was a range of research and innovation activity that was already contributing to the needs and opportunities of local industry. These activities at the colleges were generally not research as is typically supported by NSERC in universities, but included problem solving, prototype building, product development testing, and market studies, among other activities. NSERC concluded that the colleges have a significant role to play in building the innovative capacities of communities by helping firms commercialize new discoveries and adopt new technologies. This led to the development of the College and Community Innovation Pilot program »--Introduction, p. 1. gccst Research gccst Colleges Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. Programme pilote d'innovation dans les collèges et la communauté, examen à mi-mandat (CaOODSP)9.839386 PDF 638 KB https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2017/rsgc-serc/NS3-63-2007-eng.pdf