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Where Does Ontario’s Future Lie In Cleantech? OCETA and SDTC Examine The Question
By Tonya Costoff
There has been lots of talk in the last couple of years about clean technology, not just in the science community but with everyday people as well. |
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Alberta Fermentation Plant Giving Industry A Helping Hand
Compiled by Shawn Lawrence
More than 20 years since it was established, the Alberta Research Council's fermentation pilot plant has remained the largest publicly owned biotechnology fermentation and processing facility in Canada, utilized by organizations ranging from small businesses to large multinational corporations and governments. |
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Dr. Lincoln Kim: Jack Of All Trades
By Shawn Lawrence
Ask those involved in academia, industry and government what the issues facing the Canadian biotechnology and life science sector are and responses will vary. |
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Should The Canadian Biotech Industry Fear "Brain Drain" To The US?
Across Canada
Recently the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate agreed on a $787 billion stimulus package. In announcing the passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, House speaker Nancy Pelosi said that the bill contained the promises of the President, to ‘harness the sun, and the wind, and soil to fuel our cars and run our factories’, and to make American people healthier, and innovation to make the U.S. competitive, through investments in health and science. |
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Life Sciences Jobs: Is There A Future?
By Peter Pekos, President and CEO, Dalton Pharma Services
We, in the biotech industry excel at what our society and economy need so desperately - the creation of stable, high paying jobs. The biggest hurdle however, is filling these jobs with qualified people with the right skill set for our industry. The deficiency in skill sets is across the board and extends from bench positions to senior management. For me, this paradox is not just an interesting case study in supply and demand but rather a sizeable issue which my company has to deal with day in and day out. Let me assure you the 30 chemists we hired in the past fourteen months, as part of our current expansion, was a considerable challenge. |
