Reference number : GC-2017-Q1-00338, amendment number : , agreement type : G, recipient legal name : Davidson, Dawn (George Brown College), recipient country : CA, recipient province : nan, recipient city : Ontario, recipient postal code : nan, program name english : Technology Access Centre, program name french : Centre d'accès à la technologie, program purpose english : Canada's food processing industry is the largest manufacturing sector in the country, responsible for more_x000D_
than 9% of national GDP and 2.3M jobs. The 113,395 companies and farms that make up Ontarios food_x000D_
industry support 726,200 jobs and $85.2 billion in annual revenue. Toronto is the second largest food_x000D_
producing region in North America, after Los Angeles. More than half of Ontarios food processing activities_x000D_
take place within the Greater Toronto Area. George Brown Colleges Food Innovation and Research Studio_x000D_
(FIRSt) supports product development in Ontarios food and beverage industry by integrating expert applied_x000D_
research with cutting-edge research laboratories and test kitchens to ensure new food and beverage products_x000D_
are developed and optimized in a timely, cost-effective and customer-focused manner. To date, FIRSt has_x000D_
helped 131 clients develop 212 new products, optimize 235 existing products, move 52 products to market,_x000D_
and provide 273 marketing research services. Over $16M has recently been invested in FIRSt infrastructure,_x000D_
by the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario, the Canada Foundation for Innovation_x000D_
and George Brown College, to enable the FIRSt to double the number of innovative products brought to_x000D_
market and to expand its services to meet the evolving needs of clients. FIRSt is seeking renewed NSERC_x000D_
TAC investment to expand services across the entire value chain, from concept and prototype development,_x000D_
testing (sensory, qualitative, quantitative) and refinement, through to creating new manufacturing processes,_x000D_
and expanding support for scale-up preparation assistance for commercialization., program purpose french : Canada's food processing industry is the largest manufacturing sector in the country, responsible for more_x000D_
than 9% of national GDP and 2.3M jobs. The 113,395 companies and farms that make up Ontarios food_x000D_
industry support 726,200 jobs and $85.2 billion in annual revenue. Toronto is the second largest food_x000D_
producing region in North America, after Los Angeles. More than half of Ontarios food processing activities_x000D_
take place within the Greater Toronto Area. George Brown Colleges Food Innovation and Research Studio_x000D_
(FIRSt) supports product development in Ontarios food and beverage industry by integrating expert applied_x000D_
research with cutting-edge research laboratories and test kitchens to ensure new food and beverage products_x000D_
are developed and optimized in a timely, cost-effective and customer-focused manner. To date, FIRSt has_x000D_
helped 131 clients develop 212 new products, optimize 235 existing products, move 52 products to market,_x000D_
and provide 273 marketing research services. Over $16M has recently been invested in FIRSt infrastructure,_x000D_
by the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario, the Canada Foundation for Innovation_x000D_
and George Brown College, to enable the FIRSt to double the number of innovative products brought to_x000D_
market and to expand its services to meet the evolving needs of clients. FIRSt is seeking renewed NSERC_x000D_
TAC investment to expand services across the entire value chain, from concept and prototype development,_x000D_
testing (sensory, qualitative, quantitative) and refinement, through to creating new manufacturing processes,_x000D_
and expanding support for scale-up preparation assistance for commercialization., agreement title english : Food Innovation Research Studio (First), agreement title french : Food Innovation Research Studio (First), agreement number : CTAC, agreement value : 1750000.0, agreement start date : 2017-04-25, agreement end date : nan, description english : nan, description french : nan, expected results english : nan, expected results french : nan, additional information english : Grant or Award spanning more than one fiscal year. (2017-2018 to 2022-2023), additional information french : Subvention ou bourse octroyée s'appliquant à plus d'un exercice financier. (2017-2018 à 2022-2023), owner organization : nserc-crsng, owner organization title : Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada | Conseil de recherches en sciences naturelles et en génie du Canada