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Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario is one of Canada's leading universities with an international reputation for scholarship, social purpose, and spirit. Consistently highly ranked, Queen's is known for an incomparable 24-hour learning environment that inspires intense, lifelong loyalty among alumni around the world. Outstanding teaching, exceptional students, world-renowned research, community and tradition - these are the hallmarks of the Queen's experience.
Queen’s was established by Royal Charter in 1841. The earliest degree-granting institution in the united Province of Canada, and the first to establish a student government, Queen's has reflected and helped shape Canadian values and policies, educating many of the country's most notable political and cultural figures.
Bioindustrial Innovation Centre
The Bioindustrial Innovation Centre (BIC) makes Canada a globally recognized leader in the efficient utilization of sustainable feedstocks, such as agricultural and forestry co-products, and in turning these renewable resources into energy and value-added chemicals for use in a wide range of commercial applications.
BIC has a major role in the translation of Southwestern Ontario's strengths in agriculture, chemicals, manufacturing, and automotive production into new, sustainable bioindustrial-based products and renewable energy. It provides laboratories and shared pilot facilities for gasification, pyrolysis, fermentation and other key technologies for conversion of agricultural and forestry co-products into fuels, chemicals, products and materials.
Sustainable Chemistry Alliance
The alliance focuses on areas where innovation in science and engineering can bring about major advances in sustainability. Sustainable chemistry is playing an important role in the development of solutions to the impacts of climate change, peak oil, energy security, the need for safe water, and the use of scarce natural resources. The increasing global demand for green and safer products offers the opportunity to create thousands of new jobs for Canadians.
The SCA serves emerging new industry in Canada. The alliance evolved from the former Ontario Chemistry Value Chain Initiative, which had been implementing a strategy designed to bridge the gap between biochemistry and synthetic chemistry. Our headquarters are located at the new Bioindustrial Innovation Centre at the Sarnia-Lambton Campus of the University of Western Ontario Research Park.
ventureLAB is where talented ICT and Life Science entrepreneurs in York Region get help bringing their technology to market. We are the York Region partner in Ontario’s Network of Excellence [ONE], a collaborative network of organizations across Ontario, designed to help you commercialize your ideas.
ventureLAB is located in Markham, Ontario, Canada’s high tech capital. Our ventureLAB advisor teams understand what it takes to drive world class enterprise. We are passionate about driving innovation rapidly to market.
