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Announcements - NRC-IIT's award-winning tech-transfers to Canadian industry
August 24, 2009 — Ottawa, Ontario
The Federal Partners in Technology Transfer (FPTT) Awards Committee has honoured two groups from the National Research Council-Institute for Information Technology (NRC-IIT) with 2009 FPTT Awards.
(From left to right) Business development officer Randall Milburn, Interactive Information group leader Joel Martin and business development officer Michel Mellinger. Absent from the photo: Chengbi Dai.
Photo: Dan Gamache, NRC-IIT
Joel Martin, Randall Milburn, Michel Mellinger and Chengbi Dai won the prestigious Leadership in Technology Transfer Award for the transfer of Factor to Canadian-based Nstein Technologies Inc. Using a pro-active market-driven approach, the group worked tenaciously over an eighteen-month period to identify the opportunity, develop and execute the strategy, and finally form the relationship and establish the agreements with Nstein. Developed by NRC-IIT, Factor is a technology that makes semantic searches customizable and interactive. The team’s work resulted in a technology and research partnership that is valued at over $7.5 million, one of the biggest commercialization deals established at NRC-IIT.
(From left to right) Visual Information Technology (VIT) group members Jacques Domey, Guy Godin, Chang Shu, and Luc Cournoyer proudly display their awards. Absent from the photo: Michel Picard and former colleague Pierre Boulanger.
Photo: Dan Gamache, NRC-IIT
Guy Godin, Chang Shu, Jacques Domey, Luc Cournoyer and Michel Picard (and former colleague Pierre Boulanger) have won the FPTT award for Excellence in Technology Transfer for the successful development, transfer and commercialization of 3D data analysis technologies and inspection methods with NRC licensee, Innovmetric Software Inc. The company is recognized as the world-leader in modeling, dimensional inspection and quality control based on 3D measurements. Innovmetric’s clients include Honda, Toyota, Ford, GM, Rolls Royce, NASA, Airbus and Boeing.
The FPTT Excellence in Technology Transfer Award recognizes the transfer of technology from a federal laboratory to a commercial application resulting in significant public good or economic impact. Since establishing its annual awards program in 1998, FPTT has honoured 57 teams and individuals who have developed and transferred a wide array of technologies.
Individually, each recipient of an FPTT award stands as an example of the entrepreneurial drive and risk-taking that are the linchpins of successful innovation. Together, both NRC-IIT groups exemplify the depth and breadth of technological and business talent in Canada's federal laboratories.
An FPTT Awards ceremony and luncheon was be held on Thursday, June 18th, at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Ottawa to recognize this year's award winners and to celebrate 12 years of excellence in technology transfer. The Awards Ceremony was be held in conjunction with the FPTT National Meeting which focused on “Marketing and Mobilizing Your Technology”.
For more information on the FPTT Awards Ceremony, please visit: http://www.fptt-pftt.gc.ca/eng/resources/fptt_events/2009/national/awards_meeting.html
