Program directory · National Research Council Canada

Collaborative Science, Technology and Innovation Program

Department

National Research Council Canada

Program code

BNQ22 (NRC)

Core responsibility

Science and Innovation

In Departmental Plans

2018-19 – 2026-27 · New since an earlier plan

What it does

NRC’s Collaborative Science, Technology and Innovation Program integrates three components that encourage and catalyze research excellence resulting in scientific discoveries and technological breakthroughs. Collaborative R&D Initiatives are the primary vehicles for convening national teams of government, business and academic researchers to address Government priorities, tackle policy challenges and stimulate business innovation. This contribution funding enables multi-disciplinary teams to work collaboratively in a DARPA-like program model towards a focused outcome within an established timeline. These initiatives will be funded through combination of operational funding for internal NRC work and Grants and Contributions for the collaboration with others. NRC Ideation Fund uses grant or contribution funding to enable NRC researchers working individually, in small teams across NRC and with national or international researchers from other organizations to test ideas and advance technologies leading to new ideas for future large-scale collaborative R&D Initiatives. Projects under the Ideation Fund will be small scale exploratory projects in any science or engineering field that could eventually feed projects that are part of future Collaborative R&D Initiatives. Outreach Initiative grant funding will enable the NRC to increase its outreach, engagement, and support of research excellence in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields, including diversity groups.

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).

No earlier or later program in the same department has a similar name.

Significant changes in scope and budget

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.

Spending and employees: planned against actual

Spending

Employees (FTEs)

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

Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.