NRC-IRAP - British Columbia and Yukon
Gateway to the Pacific Rim

Welcome to our Region NRC-IRAP helps small and medium-sized Canadian firms buildtheir capability in technology and innovation. Our Industrial Technology Advisors (ITAs) work with you on-site to assess your company's needs and design solutions tailored to your business. IRAP offers you direct technical assistance, access to the latest technological advances, expertise, facilities, and resources, as well as cost-shared financing of innovative technical projects. Twenty-nine ITAs work in British Columbia and the Yukon. They cover the lower mainland, interior/eastern B.C., northern B.C./Yukon, and Vancouver Island. Expertise reflects regional industrial profiles and covers a range of technologies that include the resource-based industries (e.g., forestry, mining), electronics, software, advanced materials, industrial engineering, food technology, biotechnology, optics, and physics. In British Columbia and Yukon, IRAP works closely with a number of organizations: Science Council of British Columbia the University of British Columbia Simon Fraser University the University of Northern British Columbia University of Victoria For information on IRAP, or to reach an Industrial Technology Advisor (ITA), please contact the IRAP regional office nearest to you by calling our toll-free number (1-877-994-4727) which will automatically connect you with the appropriate regional office. In British Columbia and the Yukon you can call our regional office in Vancouver at (604) 666-6062. Or contact us by E-mail: Arlene.McCarthy@.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca