Program directory · Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada
Communication Technologies, Research and Innovation
- Program code
- BNP08 (ISC)
- Core responsibility
- Companies, Investment and Growth
- In Departmental Plans
- 2018-19 – 2020-21 · Appeared and later dropped
What it does
The Communication Technologies, Research and Innovation program, through the Communications Research Centre (CRC), serves as the federal centre of research excellence for advanced telecommunications, focusing on spectrum and wireless R&D. The program provides technical advice to enable evidence-based decision-making and spectrum program management for ISED. This helps position the Government to meet the evolving needs of a modern digital economy. The program enables innovation by offering opportunities for industry/academia to license its intellectual property and technologies, and by making its R&D results publically available. In addition, the program partners with industry/academia on strategic R&D collaborations to develop leading-edge technology to address global challenges facing Canada. These partnerships present opportunities to Canadian businesses and academia to engage in next-gen research which can help them, and the Canadian market, grow and be globally competitive. Under this program, the CRC acts as custodian of the Shirleys Bay Campus, which houses the research facilities of the CRC as well as other government departments. This program supports the departmental results “Canadian companies are globally competitive and achieve high growth” and “Canada is a location and destination of choice for investment, growth and tourism” under the Companies, Investment and Growth core responsibility
Source: the department's Program Inventory, via GC InfoBase.
History and lineage
First appears in GC InfoBase's actual spending by program in 2018-19. The data does not record when a program was created; it may be older than its first appearance here, which is limited by the sources (program spending starts in 2010-11, Departmental Plans in 2018-19).
| Program | Relation | Years with data | Actual spending over those years |
|---|---|---|---|
| Communication Technologies, Research and Innovation | This program | 2018-19 – 2022-23 | $86.6M |
No earlier or later program in the same department has a similar name.
Significant changes in scope and budget
Detected from the data: renames between plans, programs it appears to replace, merge with or split into (matched by name), year-over-year changes in spending of at least 25% and $5M, or in employees of at least 20% and 25 FTEs, linked budget measures, and results indicators added or dropped.
No significant changes detected.
Success criteria
The program's indicators from its department's Departmental Results Framework: the target set in each year's plan, and the result reported the following year. Source: GC InfoBase.
Historical: targets against results
Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | ≥ 5 | 2019 | 5 | Met |
| 2019-20 | ≥ 5 | 2020 | 5 | Met |
| 2020-21 | ≥ 5 | 2021 | 2 CRC’s collaborative R&D is managed through projects whose scope varies depending on several factors including the problem being addressed. To set the target for a given FY, the number of potential projects is estimated based on outreach activities with OGDs, industry and academia at the end of the prior year. These projections are subject to change based on circumstances within CRC and partner or… | Not met |
Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | ≥ 10 | 2019 | 7 The number of projects achieved was reduced from ten (10) to seven (7) as a result of the strategic realignment of the CRC research programs into fewer, but larger projects during the 2018–19 exercise. | Not met |
| 2019-20 | ≥ 7 | 2020 | 9 CRC’s collaborative R&D is managed through projects whose scope varies depending on a number of factors including the problem being addressed. Last year, CRC realized fewer collaboration projects as they were larger in scope, whereas this year, there were more projects of smaller scope used to accelerate wireless telecommunications research and development in key areas. | Met |
| 2020-21 | ≥ 7 | 2021 | 10 CRC’s collaborative R&D is managed through projects whose scope varies depending on several factors including the problem being addressed. To set the target for a given FY, the number of potential projects is estimated based on outreach activities with OGDs, industry and academia at the end of the prior year. These projections are subject to change based on circumstances within CRC and partner or… | Met |
Current: the 2026-27 plan's targets
No indicators in the 2026-27 plan.
Future goals: targets due after 2026-27
No targets with a later due date.
Spending and employees: planned against actual
Spending
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| Fiscal year | Planned | Actual |
|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | $26.4M | $29.3M |
| 2019-20 | $26.7M | $28.6M |
| 2020-21 | $27.1M | $28.6M |
| 2021-22 | $27.2M* | — |
| 2022-23 | $27.5M* | — |
Employees (FTEs)
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| Fiscal year | Planned | Actual |
|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | 195 | 182 |
| 2019-20 | 183 | 168 |
| 2020-21 | 172 | 162 |
| 2021-22 | 172* | — |
| 2022-23 | 172* | — |
Planned spending, plan by plan
Each row is one year's Departmental Plan and its forecast for the next three fiscal years; read a column down to see how the forecast for one year changed. The last row is what was actually spent. Click an amount for its source. Biggest changes in federal spending plans
| Plan | 2018-19 | 2019-20 | 2020-21 | 2021-22 | 2022-23 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 plan | $26,371,167 | $26,371,167 | $26,371,167 | ||
| 2019-20 plan | $26,698,716 | $26,698,717 | $26,698,717 | ||
| 2020-21 plan | $27,114,649 | $27,227,434 | $27,491,103 | ||
| Actual | $29,335,329 | $28,619,173 | $28,605,096 |
Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.
