Outline
• Role govt should play (id disruptive tech, its commercialization) ?
• How integrated? Local vs. national, industry vs university roles
• Approach, mechanisms to foster growth: partner, industry, university
• Example: SSOC
• How did things changed?
• Challenges and adjustments
• Lessons learned
Innovation in Canada
•Sustainable Development Technology Fund
•Federal Laboratories
•Atlantic Regional Innovation Clusters
•Biotechnology R&D
•Technology Partnerships Canada
•Canadian Health Information
Highway
•Business Development Bank of Canada
•Canadian Choices
•Canada Foundation for Innovation
Knowledge
Infrastructure
•Networks of Centers of Excellence
•PRECARN
•Canadian Institutes of Health
Research
•Canada Research Chairs
•Genome Canada
•NSERC
•Aboriginal Business
Services Network
•Tax relief - $100 B
•Biotechnology Regulation
•Canada Business
Corporations Act
•Privacy / E-Commerce
•Competition Act
Business
Environment
Commercialization
of
Innovation
Knowledge
Human
Resources
•Canada Education Savings Grant
•Education Tax Credit
•Aboriginal Business Canada
•SchoolNet / CAP
•Millennium Scholarships
NRC...
• 3,600 full-time employees and
1,200 guest workers in labs and
facilities across Canada
• Network of technology advisors
to support small business
• 19 research institutes and 5
innovation and technology
centers; focused programs in
technology sectors important to
Canada’s economy
NRC Research Institutes
Institute for Aerospace Research
Institute for Biological Sciences
Institute for Chemical Process and Environmental Technology
Institute for Information Technology
Institute for Microstructural Sciences
Institute for National Measurement Standards
Institute for Research in Construction
Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences
Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information
Corporate Branches (ASPM, CS, FB, HRB, IMSB)
Innovation Centre –
Vancouver
Institute for Marine Dynamics St. John’s
Institute for Information Technology –
Atlantic – Fredericton, Moncton,
St. John, Sydney
Herzberg Institute of
Astrophysics – Victoria,
Penticton
National Institute for
Nanotechnology - Edmonton
Institute for Marine Bioscience Halifax
Institute for Biodiagnostics –
Winnipeg, Calgary, Halifax
Plant Biotechnology Institute –
Saskatoon
Integrated Manufacturing
Technologies Institute –
London
Industrial Materials Institute – Boucherville,
Ville Saguenay
Biotechnology Research Institute –
Montreal
Canada’s Innovation Challenges
• Find better ways to create knowledge and bring these ideas to
market
• Find ways to develop, attract and retain the best and the brightest
• Support innovation at the local level
• Modernize business and regulatory policies
Operational
• Scope out position and motivation of partners for common interest: get
acceptance of all regional partners even if have national mandate
• Identify actual need for this
• Open communications and sustain to build shared vision
• Minimize backroom deals: transparency
• Bring integration of process as much as possible
• Find workaround govt/institution bureaucratic processes (avoid jail if
possible)
• Be patient….
• Good science, top quality
WDM Transmission System or:
What did you drink the night before: disruptive technology
Issues at the time:
•Govt labs comfortable with long-term horizon projects
•Industry found such work of no immediate value
•Govt labs interested in advanced components
•SMEs looking at niche devices (sensors …)
•Universities saw advanced devices as too applied and short-term
•No traditions of collaboration between institutions
•No common vocabulary
•No common working style (Gantt charts, time sheets, stretch goals)
SSOC Membership
An open consortium of:
BNR / NT
EG&G
MPR Teltech
TR Labs
ITS Electronics
Seastar Optics
DND
Litton systems
Affiliates:
CRC
NRC (IMS)
NOI
University Programme:
Queen’s
Laval
Toronto
Sherbrooke
UBC
Imperial Coll.
TUNS
WORKING TO ACHIEVE OPTOELECTRONIC INTEGRATION
Goal
• To develop the technology of optoelectronic
integration, thus combining the advantages
of light and high-speed electronics in a single
device.
•Facilitate collaboration
•Establish competitive capability in Canada
•Facilitate training of HQP
•Propel optoelectronic integration and WDM
(disruptive technologies)
•Adapt to members specialised needs
Positioning: Organisational
Government Labs.
and / or Consortia
Applications
Systems
• Leadership in
strategic niche
market
opportunities
Base
Technology
• Creative,
provocative
ideas
• Leadership in
selected
manufacturable
strategic
technologies
Industry
• Market
Driven
Leadership
• Tools
• Modelling
Modules
Devices
Universities and
C. of Excellence
• Strategic
• Verification
• Competence
• Suitably
educated
graduates
• Application
Leadership
Linkages
SHARED PRE-COMPETITIVE RESEARCH
Output is
People with the Technology
that Industry needs
Industry
MUTUAL ASSISTANCE
Governments
strategic role of participants
availability of resources
SSOC
Universities
Centres of
Excellence
minimize communication
barriers
critical mass for impact
Organisation
Member
Programs
(Related R&D)
SSOC/
Member
Program
NRC
Related
Program
SSOC/NRC
Program
• >$40M* pa
• >$2M pa
• $2M pa
• 4M pa
• Individual
• Contracted to
- NRC
Universities
Members
• NRC based
• Co-ordinated
with SSOC
Program
Members
Internal
Programs
(related r&d
only)
Technology transfer
achieved through
• Guest Workers
• Graduate Students
• Performed by
NRC staff
• Planned and managed as a whole
• Major Projects / Individual Activities
OBJECTIVES
* >$150M pa if applications development counted
MILESTONES
MONTHLY REVIEWS
Membership Fees / Rights
$K pa
Guest
Workers
Principal
250
3
Non-exclusive. Royalty Free
Senior
50
1
Non-exclusive. Royalties payable for
commercial exploitation
50/
250
1/3
Associate
10
--
Research Affiliate
Negotiable
Type
Consortium
Non-Members
N/A
Intellectual Property Rights
Guaranteed non-exclusive access at
normal market rates
Non-exclusive. Royalty-free for internal
use. "Have made" rights
Negotiable with SSOC
SSOC 5-Year Program
1.
Establish
GaAs Device
Capability A
Fabrication
Space, Eq't
Expertise B
R&D on
Wavelength
Selection C
2.
Advanced
GaAs
Devices
Wavelength
Separation/
Amplification
Integratable
Detectors
3.
Advanced
Laser
Modulator
Separation/
Amplifier
Device
Integrated
Waveguides
4.
WDM
Demo
Chip
5.
Multiport
Hybrid
Optical WDM
Commission
InP Growth
Capability D
Simple
InP
Devices
InP Process
External
Material
R&D on
Electronics
Integrated Demonstrator
(Wavelength Dependent
Processor)
Materials
Choices
&
Integrateable
Device
Wavelength
Separation
Demonstration
Hybrid
Optical
Demux
S
Y
S
T
E
M
S
Integrated
Electronics
Design
A
P
P
L
I
C
A
T
I
O
N
S
Component
Choices
Demonstrator
Choices
90° Waveguide Turning Mirror
Core Programme
InP facilities and devices
Integration issues
Bidirectional WDM Rx-Tx
InGaAs/GaAs Tx-Rx demonstrator
Member’s Programme
CRC
TRLabs
MPR
NOI
EG&G
DND
BNR
Electronics Tx-Rx
LAMDA, M-Z mod
systems study
modelling soft. dev.
InP laser dev.
fiber micro.
direct DFB lith.
Novel Devices
University Programme
circular grating lasers
direct write DFB grating process
visible SEHG lasers and NARROW
VCSELs
OPO at 1.3 and 1.5mm
Queen’s
Toronto
UBC
Laval
Imperial College
Sherbrooke
CITR
BPM
thermal model
InP HBT OEIC
nl wavelength cntl
patterned growth
InP PL
VCSELs
Lasting benefits for Canada
•Took nearly two years of talking and exploring
(created Aug.1988, sunset Aug. 1995)
•Over 60 HPQ found jobs over that 7 years
•Several world technology “first” or “records”
•Publications, IP, reports and process development
•Opto group at IMS grew to 31
•Lasting impact on industry, university and NRC
•R&D positions in university, industry
•Mixed matrix approach to resources
•Closer interdependencies
•Value for Canada well documented
Summary
•typically take more than four years to return any benefits
•Research focus was maintained with Core Programme Tx-Rx WDM
•to build infrastructure, while being responsive to individual requests.
•World record performance for WDM devices and several
•Novel Devices patents.
•New manufacturing processes successfully transferred,
•now part of products as result of effective technology transfers via
•guest workers.
•Future components for Canada’s “electronic highway”
•(CANARIE and OCRI-Net), in addition to members’ systems.
Post SSOC, IMS impact
• Very high level of R&D partnership
(individual firms commercialising results)
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Efficient internal organisation and culture
Lasting relationships and clients
High quality people, R&D and equipment base
Tightly integrated full micro-fabrication capability
Spin-offs
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CrossLight software
SiGe Semiconductors
Iridian Spectral Technologies
MetroPhotonics
LNL Optenia
Trilium Photonics
• Other consortia such as OpCom, Athena, CARC, FIB-OCRI…
Emergence in 1990s, post SSOC
• SSOC paved the way and shaped culture in combination with OCRI in
Ottawa region (Potworowski study, May 2002)
• BNR/Nortel: gorilla, Industry
NRC: vision, R&D
SSOC: applications, technical networking
OCRI: facilitator, networking, regional voice
• Local universities not active in photonics at the time
• Now have Ontario and municipal Govt, U of O, Carleton, Algonquin,
OPC, CPC, PRO, IRAP, OCRI, NCIT, OPRA, CPFC, SMC, NRC,
Regional Innovation center, Vitesse, IPF, etc….. All helping in unison
Industry Partnership Facility (IPF)
Industry Partnership Facility
• Assist SMEs in ICT sector to exploit emerging technologies
• Co-located to NRC staff doing R&D in software and hardware
components
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Co-located with IRAP
Access to CISTI and NRC linkages to expert advice
Reduce risk during the critical start-up years
2500 sq.m. of usable space, 15 companies
• All new NRC facilities will have one now!
The Incubation Process
Access to R&D Networks
R&D
Feedback
Specialized Facilities
Access to Skilled
People
Access to Capital
Capitalization
Networks and Alliances
Champions
Company
Business
Development
Exchange of Ideas
Business Planning
Access to Services
Coaching and Mentoring
Canadian Photonics Fabrication Centre (CPFC) - Ottawa
• Unique facility in Canada for industry and universities
• Component and device fabrication
• Linking photonics clusters to NRC's national facilities, networks,
competencies and incubation services
• Training of highly qualified personnel
The CPFC: Working in Partnership
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Algonquin College
CIPI
COPAC
CMC (MOU signed in January 2003)
CRC
Ontario Photonics Consortium
PRO (MOU signed in May 2001)
TR Labs (MOU signed in October 2002)
University of Ottawa
Vitesse (MOU in progress)
National R&D Infrastructure
Prototyping services for industry
– Small firms: Low-volume production; Proof of concept; Design assistance
– Medium firms: Low-volume production runs to test manufacturability &
designs
– Large firms: Fast turnaround, novel runs to test proof of concept
Training highly qualified personnel
– R&D fabrication facilities for universities, Centres of Excellence, and other
research organizations
Technology Clusters –
NRC’s Approach
The Players
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R&D institutions (private, university, government)
technology intensive firms with global reach
entrepreneurs - local champions with vision
network catalysts - public and private sector
involved/knowledgeable local sources of financing
technology brokers & tech transfer centres
provincial and municipal governments, local authorities
Source: Andy Woodsworth
Role: development
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Must not be top down or policy driven
Industry driven and industry champion
Offer real value, visibility, networking, not just endless meetings
Involve the right members not the usual “leaches”
Recognize when to manage the cluster
Limit bureaucratic overhead (difficult in govt context)
Identify real problems not political reasons
Create interdependencies
Effective “disruptive tech” interactions:
- establish strong member commitment.
- streamlined decision control.
- well defined and focussed Core Programme, in a central location.
- maintain one-on-one member research flexibility.
- effective technology transfer by on-site workers.
- uniform technology base for Core Programme.
- select members for complementary values and compatible goals.
- work out issues with individual members.
- use technical meetings as information transfer and input.
Ottawa Photonics Valley
 Solid State Optoelectronics Consortium (SSOC) - created
in 1989 with participation of BNR & SMEs
 SSOC developed integrated photonic devices for
wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) on a single chip.
 O-Vitesse (Vitesse Re-skilling) to address shortage of
software engineers
 Immigration rule changes for IT workers
 Incubation - NRC’s IPF
 70 NRC spin-offs in Ottawa alone, creating 7000 high
tech jobs, with over $1 B sales
NRC Technology Cluster Initiatives
Aluminium
(Ville Saguenay)
Ocean
Engineering
(Newfoundland)
Nanotechnology
(Edmonton)
Fuel Cells
(Vancouver))
Astronomy
(Victoria,
Penticton)
Ag-Biotech
(Saskatoon)
Medical Technologies
(Winnipeg)
Sustainable Urban
IT / Life Sciences
Infrastructure
(Ottawa)
(Regina)
Bioactives
(PEI)
E-Business
(New Brunswick,
Sydney)
Life Sciences
(Nova Scotia)
Biopharmaceuticals,
Industrial Materials
(Montreal)
Aerospace
(Ottawa, Montreal)