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BENEFITS
The NCE program is a uniquely Canadian creation that for
15 years has been playing a critical role in improving quality
of life for Canadians. With its multidisciplinary and multisectoral
approach, the NCE program is able to bring broad range of
expertise to bear on solving complex problems. Its stable
funding (the NCE is a permanent federal government program)
allows investigators to engage in long-term planning and leverage
additional resources from industry and government partners.
Managing outcomes
Every year, the NCEs must report on their activities and
achievements in all areas, including excellence of research,
the extent of their collaborations, the knowledge they have
created and transferred to users and the personnel they have
trained and retained. These data are collected and reported
globally for the overall program in each annual report.
Investing in networks
The NCE program invests in national research networks that:
- Stimulate leading-edge research in areas critical to economic
and social development
- Develop and retain world-class researchers in areas essential
to Canada's productivity
- Create nation-wide multidisciplinary and multisectoral
research partnerships
- Accelerate the exchange of research results within the
networks and the use of these results by organizations that
can harness them for economic and social development
| "What the networks have
done is enable some of the country's best
researchers to work together on challenging problems
that they would not have been able to undertake
separately."
– Dr. Michael Smith, Winner
of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and President
of PENCE, quoted in 1994 |
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