by Nicolas Sacchetti The survival and resale value of Québec's manufacturing sector depends on digital transformation, the Industry 4.0. Danielle Lafond, Founding President of Labplas Taking the digital turn does not necessarily mean launching a major project. A goal of acquiring a Metamorphic Material Handling System (MMHS), such as a manipulator arm or a pneumatic lifting system, […] Read more
Statistics Canada (StatCan) partnered with Policies, Processes and Practices for Performance of Innovation Ecosystems (P4-IE) Conference to run a hackathon May 4th to 6th, 2022 on innovation data indicators and assessment. The objective of the hackathon was to explore how data and indicators could be better leveraged to help government foster impactful innovation. The event […] Read more
by Nicolas Sacchetti Aerospace industry is undergoing major transformations. The emergence of air cabs, aircrafts with autopilot devices (remote pilots) and drones is bringing a new era of technologies transforming the skies and the societies’ views of tomorrow. Frank Matus participated in the conversation on May 13, 2021 about the challenges of designing drones and […] Read more
by Nicolas Sacchetti Charlotte Laramée, Vice President of Operations at Aéro Montréal - Québec's aerospace cluster - presents key findings on the challenges to accelerate the growth of the Canadian aerospace sector. In the aerospace industry, the potential for realization is well present at the national level, but a shortfall has been identified in the […] Read more
by Nicolas Sacchetti Telepilots can now improve their skills at the very first Canadian test site for R&D, as well as training and qualification for drones, the Qualia test site. Marc Moffat is a former air combat systems officer who served 20 years in the Canadian Armed Forces. He participated in the conversation about the […] Read more
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by Catherine Beaudry This series of video blogs details how by providing firms with their own detailed dashboard and benchmarking reports, combined with greater coordination of the Business Innovation and Growth Support (BIGS), they gain the means by which to increase their innovation performance. In addition, Data-Driven Enterprise Empowerment is also one of the best […] Read more
by Nicolas Sacchetti "Transforming new scientific discoveries into concrete applications for the benefit of society as a whole" is what IVADO, a Québec-based institute in the field of digital intelligence (DI), is dedicated to. Jean-François Connolly is an IVADO advisor in DI. He presents some tools for undertaking data analysis projects in the humanities and […] Read more
by Nicolas Sacchetti Benjamin Zweig is an Adjunct Professor of Economics at the Leonard N. Stern School of Business in New York, and CEO of Revelio Labs. An occupational intelligence company that indexes hundreds of millions of public employment records to create the world's first universal human resources database. « We analyze companies’ workforce data, » says […] Read more
by Nicolas Sacchetti In Canada, intellectual property rights are awarded to the first person to file a patent application. It takes more than being the inventor. The panel led by Elicia Maine of the Composites Knowledge Network raises the issues surrounding the decision to patent in the advanced manufacturing sector. The event took place during […] Read more