Technology Roadmaps

Technology Roadmaps (TRMs) assist industry sectors to identify, prioritize and develop the technologies and skills necessary for competing successfully in future markets.

Summary

The Technology Roadmap concept is a consultative process designed to help industry, its supply-chain, academic and research groups, and governments come together to jointly identify and prioritize the technologies needed to support strategic R&D, marketing and investment decisions. These technologies will be of critical importance to an industry in the next five to ten years.

In developing a TRM, companies within a sector come together in a joint commitment to identify the critical technologies as well as the skills required to properly utilize the technologies of the future. The TRM, there, is a means to achieve a joint decision on future research and development, future skills development, and to establish a commitment to work together to address these challenges.

Completed Technology Roadmaps

• Aircraft Cabin Management Systems Integration
• Aircraft Design Manufacturing and Repair & Overhaul
• Aluminum
• Bio-based Feedstocks, Fuels and Industrial Products
• Canadian Biopharmaceutical Industry Technology Roadmap
• Canadian Electrical Power
• Canadian Fuel Cell Commercialization  
• Canadian Metal Casting
• Clean Coal
• CO2 Capture and Geological Storage
• Forest Operations
• Functional Foods and Neutraceuticals
• Future Fuels for the APEC Region
• Intelligent Buildings
• Language Industries
• Lean Logistics
• Low Cost Aerospace Composites Manufacturing, Processing and Repair
• Lumber and Value-Added Wood Products
• Marine and Ocean Industry
• Medical Imaging
• Technology Roadmap for Welding and Joining in Canada
• Wood-Based Panel Products

Under Development

• Canada's Biorefinery Roadmap: Forestry and Agriculture

Quebec Contact(s):
See National Contact.

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National Contact(s):
Mr. Geoffrey Nimmo
Industry Canada
Room 635D
235 Queen Street
Ottawa, Ontario  K1A 0H5
Telephone: 613-954-3040
Fax: 613-954-3079
E-mail: nimmo.geoffrey@ic.gc.ca