“The polytechnics, the colleges: the role that you play, as I see it, I’ve always found that anybody that I knew that went to one of your institutions always came out with much more than just a job, they always came out with a good career, whether it was radiology or education. That’s an important piece of the puzzle in Canada, because the K-12 system, doesn’t always serve us as well as it could.”
Propelling business innovation, creating jobs for tomorrow
Polytechnics & Industry
One of a polytechnic’s distinguishing features is a close working relationship with industry to help businesses grow and create high-quality jobs. Polytechnics conduct applied research based on industry needs aimed at specific commercial objectives. Such research creates maximum return on investment for business, industry and government by accelerating knowledge transfer and putting research into practice.
A partial list of some of the companies that have benefited from working with Polytechnics Canada members:
- HousAll Systems Corporation: design of emergency housing (Algonquin)
- B-Con Engineering: photonics research (Algonquin)
- COM-DEV: automating the manufacture of a satellite component (Conestoga)
- Grand River Foods: food processing training (Conestoga)
- Ocorant Inc. development of prototype mobile heart monitor (George Brown)
- Infonaut Inc.: research and development of health geographic systems (George Brown)
- Fame Biorefinery biorefinery research (Olds)
- Mozilla: open source product research and development (Seneca)
- Bombardier Aerospace: customized training (Seneca)
- Conematic Heating Systems: pre-commercialization and prototype development (SAIT)
- Darcor Limited: testing the rolling capacity of casters (Humber)
- Give & Go Prepared Foods: production management (Humber)
- NGRAIN: 3D industrial simulations (BCIT)
- Toon Boom Animation: developing animation software solutions (Sheridan)
Many of these companies are members of the Polytechnics Canada National Strategy Group that helps us foster stronger, practical and sustainable collaboration between polytechnics and the business communities we serve.
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