Ryerson’s Researchers Are Solving Urban Water Challenges
Ryerson University’s solution-focused approach to water issues fits well with the Southern Ontario Water Consortium’s (SOWC) mandate to move innovations in water technology forward. “Finding solutions and getting them out there as opposed to being purely academic is what sets us apart,” says Imogen Coe, Dean of the Faculty of Science. “We have developed strong and comfortable relationships with industry, municipalities, and not-for-profits. They identify problems and gaps and we identify and deliver the solutions.” Located in the heart of [...]
External Funding Opportunities – December 2015
Pre-commercialization Business Development Fund (PBDF) Ontario Genomics Deadline: January 14, 2016 Ontario Genomics’ Pre-commercialization Business Development Fund (PBDF) is a unique investment fund that is helping to enable the economic impact of outcomes of “omics” and life sciences research projects and technology development. Specifically, it aims to provide early-stage funding as companies (on their own or with academic collaborators) move towards commercial applications and to speed up transfer of products from lab to marketplace. The fund invests up to $100K [...]
Watershed Research Combined With SOWC Infrastructure is Making Mimico an Ideal Testing Ground for Industry
One of the most urbanized watersheds in Canada is becoming an ideal spot for researchers and industry to develop technologies geared towards improving water quality and flood prevention thanks to the Southern Ontario Water Consortium’s (SOWC) monitoring infrastructure and a University of Toronto (U of T) professor’s research. The watershed monitoring infrastructure set up at Mimico Creek, which runs from Brampton to Mississauga to Toronto, provides unique access to a highly-urbanized watershed as well as comprehensive real-time data, which can [...]