Some OCE landmarks

In 2008 – 09 the Ontario Centres of Excellence:

• Invested $29.3 million in 635 projects and leveraged $44.7 million from industry partners in further investments

• Connected 4,500 researchers and students with 752 companies

• Engaged 713 researchers and co-investigators

• Involved 38 colleges, universities, research hospitals in OCE projects

• Launched 22 startup companies, bringing the total number of active OCE startup companies to 121

• Established 37 new technology licenses, with a total of 135 active licenses

• Counts 635 active projects, of which 64 are in energy technologies

• In 2009 the Connections program engaged 1,500 students from 20 universities and colleges across Ontario in more than 310 industry projects

            — Excerpted from OCE’s 2008-09 annual report

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• Feature interview with Tom Corr, the new President of OCE

• Ontario Centres of Excellence - ready to respond

• Ontario’s burgeoning research infrastructure

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