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We Bring Innovation To Life

Est. 1986 Locations – Edmonton, Calgary, Regina, Saskatoon, Winnipeg Personnel - 180 Partners & Clients – 80

Outcomes:

969 students trained

453 commercialized technologies

82 active patents (issued/filed)

TRTech is an industry-driven, not-for-profit technology commercialization company that fast tracks innovation to market by working with its 80 industry, government, and academic partners and clients to discover, develop and commercialize technology. Our mandate is to grow the ICT industry in Western Canada by supporting your success, while giving you full control over Intellectual Property. Innovation activity focuses on five themes: Intelligent Wireless, Interactive Video Services, Data Analytics, eHealth, and ICT Security. Facilities are located in Edmonton, Calgary, Saskatoon, Regina, and Winnipeg. TRTech’s market-pull commercialization service offering to industry includes market requirements identification, technology assessments, applied research, proof of concept, prototyping/integration, and take to market services. We provide business with the talent, connections and savings to help deliver their Information and Communication Technology innovations to market.

Grow Your Innovation Advantage

Tap Talent

Leverage a network of skilled people, advanced lab resources and academic relationships.

Companies benefit from:

• Access to TRTech’s staff and the growing intellectual capital that arises from all programs
• Access to senior industry and academic expertise through TRTech’s ecosystem
• TRTech’s relationship with higher learning institutions which enable the training and evaluation of potential new hires as part of a project (with no obligation)

Make Connections

We connect you to ecosystems of ICT players that are critical to all stages of commercialization – creating meaningful introductions and offering a ‘one-stop’ innovation service window. Through Our Program’s ecosystem and TRTech’s larger network, participants can get un-biased referrals and introductions to other businesses, not-for-profit service providers, government agencies, academics and venture capitalists.

Save Money

Contracting TRTech to work on a project saves money. In two recent projects, we leveraged our clients’ investment dollars by 3.5 to 1 and 4.6 to 1 respectively.

Here’s how:

• Technical expertise and focus makes TRTech projects efficient.
• Projects benefit from shared infrastructure at TRTech locations (ICT lab equipment, on-site licences, etc.).
• Project costs can be shared among program participants (where no IP conflicts exist).
• TRTech’s Government funding can be applied to subsidize qualifying projects for small-to-medium enterprises developing new products or services.
• We are experts at applying to national and provincial support programs to further subsidize your project.
• When desired, top students can be engaged under the supervision of TRTech professional staff resulting in a cost-effective cutting-edge project team.
• TRTech work may qualify for SR&ED.

TRTech Overview Brochure (.pdf)