With the federal government's recent establishment of an independent expert panel on innovation, Innovation 2010: Canada's R&D Partnership Conference is your chance to tell Canada's innovation leaders what your business needs to boost your R&D, innovation and commercialization. Join this unique event to formulate practical ideas and solutions that can help you bring Canada's world-leading research innovations to market, and connect with more than 50 trade commissioners representing 24 countries worldwide and 14 regions from across Canada and the U.S.

Emphasizing collaboration, strategy, creativity and internationalization, INNOVATION 2010 will enable you to:

• Help shape how we transform Canada's research excellence into products and services that benefit Canadians and Canadian industry;
• Develop new partnerships and collaborations
• Network with key players from Canada's industry, research and commercialization sectors.

Meet with innovation leaders from Canada, Australia, Europe and Asia. Join with industry CEOs, industry association executives, federal research and commercialization representatives and entrepreneurs as they explore conference themes of Connect, Collaborate and Mobilize/Commercialize.

CONNECT sessions address the interface between industry partners and research institutions; the government's role in supporting new connections; how these connections can create jobs and attract company investment; and the connection between knowledge and action. Meet with more than 50 trade commissioners representing 24 countries worldwide and 14 regions from across Canada and the U.S.

Collaborate sessions outline best practices, innovative models and 　'lessons learned' that eliminate barriers and create better understanding between industry and research partners. Learn about new ways to transform early stage discoveries into lower-risk, higher value opportunities.

MOBILIZE/COMMERCIALIZE sessions focus on supporting entrepreneurship, financing new companies and on the role of knowledge in improving society as well as supporting industry. Hear how a new strategy has revolutionized the treatment and impacts of stroke, the leading cause of disability in Canada.

Innovation 2010: Canada's R&D Partnership Conference Dec. 5-7 Ottawa, ON Canada

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