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INTERNATIONAL WINTER SCHOOL
Business Development of Research, Transfer of Technology and Creation of Spin-offs
Sabin Boily, Ph.D.President-Director General
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Outline
• History
• Context
• SQRI in brief• Vision
• Axes
• Conclusion
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History• 1999-2006 : Research Valorization in Quebec
(Valorisation recherche Québec VRQ)
• 2007-2010 : Quebec Strategy for Research and Innovation: A prosper and innovating Quebec (Stratégie québécois de la recherche et de l’innovation : Un Québec innovant et prospère)
• 2010-2013 : Quebec Strategy for Research and Innovation: Mobilize, Innovate and Become Prosperous (Stratégie québécois de la recherche et de l’innovation : Mobiliser, Innover, Prospérer
Acknowledgements : Mrs Geneviève Tanguay, Assistant Deputy Minister, Directorate General for Research, Innovation, Science and Society, MDEIE
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Context• Innovation is a key success factor in terms of economic,
social and cultural development.
• Innovation contributes to increase the productivity.
• A competitive Quebec must bet on innovation.
• Innovation forms an integral part of our vision of economic development, that to say: a creative, innovative entrepreneur and warm Quebec.
• The SQRI (2007-2010) has allowed to support innovation in Quebec, but we must follow on with more effort.
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Going forward with a renewed strategyWe must continue the efforts begun by the SQRI in 2007 mainly to:
•consolidate the gains of SQRI while adjusting some steps to produce their full benefits;
•adopt a new approach and adopt new measures more focused on priority sectors and mobilizing projects;
•build on our strengths to accelerate innovation in priority sectors in Quebec companies;
•remain competitive vis-à-vis our partners and competitors;
•contribute to making Quebec a place with the smallest footprint.
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The vision of SQRI 2010-2013
- A follow-on from the first strategy- The result of a reflected exercise of priotization-Maximize the economic and social investments from the Government of Quebec.
This renewed vision aims at:
• Consolidation of our gains in public research• Acceleration of innovation in our companies • The mobilization of the actors around the projects for the future for Quebec society.
Mobilize, innovate and become prosperous to enhance the quality of life of the Quebecers.
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Four axes and one condition for success_______________________________________________________
Transparent gouvernance
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A more competitive research recognized internationallyObjectives
•Obtain a significant proportion of funding from the federal government to finance Quebec universities research from a more competitive Canadian perspective.•Ensure that the research in Quebec stays at a competitive international level and that our researchers collaborate extensively with the best researchers throughout the world.•Increase the competitiveness of our research system by having better equipment and the latest infrastructures.
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Expected results
•Maintain a market share corresponding to our demographic weight for federal funding of research.
•Increase co-authored publications with foreign researchers by at least 45% (43.5% in 2008).
•Maintain our average annual investment above 114 M$ for our equipment and research infrastructure.
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A more competitive research recognized internationally
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Research in Quebec
• Research Quebec is now the banner that brings together interventions from the Quebec government regarding public research.
• The creation of Fonds Recherche Québec which encompasses FRSQ, FQRNT and FQRSC.
• The creation of the position for a chief scientist who will be in charge of Fonds Recherche Québec.
• Support the development of strategic technologies.• Encourage international collaborative projects.• Finance research infrastructures.
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TOTAL
3 years M$
Fond Recherche Québec 36.9
Develop strategic technologies 119.0
Financial contribution towards the maintenance of research infrastructures
18.0
Support international collaborative projects 16.2
TOTAL – SQRI BUDGET 190.1
TOTAL – BASIC BUDGET2 394.2
TOTAL – BASIC + SQRI BUDGET 584.3
Financial contribution for research infrastructures 342.4
TOTAL - INFRASTRUCTURES 342.4
Details: www.mdeie.gouv.qc.ca/sqri2 Budget allocated by MDEIE towards research and innovation
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A more creative and entrepreneurial population
Objectives
•Ensure the succession, training and employability of the workforce, and this in the context of a globalized knowledge economy.• Increase the industrial R&D personnel.•Increase the number of top foreign students wishing to carry on studying in Quebec.
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Expected Results
• Award at least annually:»» 300 more merit scholarships»» 114 international internships»» Double the scholarships and internships in practical milieu (actually: 71).
•Increase the number of industrial R&D employees by 7500, representing an increase of 15%.
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TOTAL
3 YEARS M$
NovaScience 4.9
Merit scholarships 32.4
International internships 2.4
Scholarships in a practical setting 5.0
TOTAL – SQRI BUDGET 44.7
TOTAL – BASIC BUDGET4 110.2
TOTAL – BASIC + SQRI BUDGET 154.9
Details: www.mdeie.gouv.qc.ca/sqri4 Budget allocated by MDEIE towards research and innovation
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An increase of our productivity and our competitiveness through innovation
Objectives
• Increase the commercialization of industrial innovations.• Ensure a better usage of our research results.• Stimulate industrial research.•Encourage greater collaboration between SMEs and intermediary organizations.
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Expected Results
• More than 30 commercialization projects.• 40 projects in seed companies.•Increase the number of university/industry collaborations by at least 10% (CF 6000 collaborations observed over the past three years).•40 projects issued from public research, aiming maturation and penetration of the market.•Increase the number of active companies from 8000 to 10000 by 2013.• 120 technology intensification projects carried out between industry and public research.
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An increase of our productivity and our competitiveness through innovation
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Business and industrial research
New measures have been added on top of existing ones for industry:
• Support commercialization for the realization of a marketing plan for a technological innovation.
• Marketing of products with low carbon footprint for a cleaner product that replaces a more polluting one or which allows for a less polluting one.
• Specialized support services offered by technology incubators which follow and guide any start-up.
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TOTAL
3 YEARS M$
Commercialization of innovations 41.7
Industrial research 50.8
Collaborative research 50.7
Emerging technological businesses 37.8
Support to liaison and transfer organizations 21.6
TOTAL – SQRI BUDGET 202.7
TOTAL – BASIC BUDGET6 121.9
TOTAL – BASIC + SQRI BUDGET 324.6
Estimated costs for taxes7 80.0
Seed Funding 125.0
Details: www.mdeie.gouv.qc.ca/sqri6 Budget allocated by MDEIE for research and innovation7 Does not include taxes on R&D expenditure
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Characteristics of mobilizing projects•An inspiring project consists of a set of concrete activities implemented by several partners (companies, research centers, universities, etc.) but carried through by the vision and leadership of industry and its users.•Besides funding from Quebec, this type of project relies on an important funding from industry, federal programs and international organizations.•It has a multiplicative effect on the Quebec economy, the quality of life and the development of critical masses of researchers and innovation with global reach.•It requires the collaboration of partners from different key sectors of Quebec, industrial and academic research milieu as well as intermediation organizations.
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Big mobilizing projets
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Objective
•Bring the various actors in the innovation system of Quebec to work together to achieve developmental projects promoting the economic benefits of research results.
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Big mobilizing projets
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Expected Results• The realization of five mobilizing projects.
•Participation of differents actors (major players, SME, valorization and transfer organizations, research institutions, universities) in the realization of these mobilizing projects.
• Participation of actors from different fields of innovation depending upon the project.
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Big mobilizing projets
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Big mobilizing projets
TOTAL
3 YEARS M$
Ecological aeroplane 70.08
Electric Bus 30.0
Forest biorefinery 30.0
Green TIC 30.0
Other upcoming mobilizing projects 20.0
TOTAL – BUDGET SQRI 180.0
Shares of private partners 170.0
Details : www.mdeie.gouv.qc.ca/sqri6 Including 20 M$ forecasted for 2013-2014
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A transparent gouvernance
• Strategic committee in science and innovation• Science and technology ethic committee•An orientation committee and committee directors for all mobilizing projects•Better indices to measure the return in investment for research and innovation
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Conclusion: SQRI 2010-2013
• Major efforts to sustain emerging mobilizing projects which will bring together the major forces of Quebec in research and innovation;
• Efforts to support projects in social and organizational innovation, so as to improve productivity in organizations;
• New measures to support the emergence of technology from SMEs;
• Important efforts to support commercialization of Quebec innovations, especially the green ones;
• The adjustment of measures to favor attracting the best foreign students and researchers;
• A major restructuring to strengthen leadership in Quebec regarding research and innovation.
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Thank you !
Any questions ?