West

Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and the Northwest Territories

The National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC-IRAP) supports small and medium-sized enterprises in Canada build their technology and innovation capabilities. Our Industrial Technology Advisors work with small and medium-sized enterprises on-site to assess your needs and design solutions which can be tailored to your business.

NRC-IRAP offers you direct technical assistance, access to the latest technological advances, expertise, facilities and resources. NRC-IRAP may also provide cost-shared financing of innovative technical projects to qualified firms.

Forty-seven Industrial Technology Advisors work in NRC-IRAP West. They manage assigned areas and serve as sector specialists. Expertise spans a range of key industrial sectors and technologies such as:

• Advanced Chemistry and Materials
• Advanced Manufacturing
• Biotechnology and Bioprocessing
• Construction
• Energy
• Environmental Technologies
• Food and Agricultural sciences
• Health-care and Pharmaceuticals
• Information Technology, Electronics and Telecommunications
• Transportation

In the West Region, NRC-IRAP works closely with a number of organizations such as

• Alberta Innovates
• Arctic Energy Alliance
• BioAccess Commercialization Centre
• Biomedical Commercialization Canada
• Calgary Technologies Inc.
• Canadian Environmental Technology Advancement Corporation (CETAC) WEST
• Communities of Tomorrow
• Composites Innovation Centre
• Government of the Northwest Territories
• Industrial Technology Centre
• Innovation Saskatchewan
• Manitoba Innovation, Energy and Mines
• Ministry of the Economy, Saskatchewan
• Springboard West Innovations
• TEC Edmonton
• Western Economic Diversification Canada
• Local universities, colleges and technical institutes