Provincial government funding and programs
The Ontario government actively supports research innovation. Here are various provincial government ministries, agencies and not-for-profit corporations that fund, or have funded leading edge research and programs (i.e. OIT):
Ministry of Research & Innovation: www.mri.gov.on.ca
Ontario Innovation Trust: www.oit.on.ca
Ontario Institute For Cancer Research: www.oicr.on.ca
Q Let's start out with an extremely blunt question. How
good is Canadian research?
A The short answer is, extremely good. Canada, with
about 0.5 per cent of the world's population, produces
2 per cent of the world's GDP. But at the same time
Canadian science creates 4 per cent of Earth's global
knowledge. Papers, patents, citations - the research
measurables.
The province of Ontario increased its funding for
research (across all departments) from a total of
$1,101 million in the five years between 1994 and 1999
to a total of $2,250 million in the five years between
2001 and 2006.
Source: Government of Ontario
Source: Government of Ontario
