Grants and Contributions

Application of Robotic Process Automation to provide more efficient Canadian Immigration Processes

Stash enables users to automatically sign into their digital user accounts with unique, complex passwords without storing sensitive information on any connected device. Stash uses patent-pending technology to allow the user to store and retrieve sensitive information using NFC with an Android phone.

Improve the capabilities and robustness of our Yonder parent and application(s).

True Angle Medical Technologies is focused on the development of novel sensing technologies. Our first product, the Mobili-T™, is a system created for people who suffer from swallowing difficulties. The Mobili-T is a unique system that allows patients to reliably carry out their customized intensive therapy program on a daily basis, anywhere and anytime, while still being connected to a clinician. The current project will enhance the device by optimization of the algorithm and data to improve robustness, and by making the device more flexible by transforming the hard-shelled sensor into a flexible sensor that conforms to the body.
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In this project, Materials and Manufacturing Research Institute (MMRI) at the University of British Columbia (UBC) provides technical services and innovation assistance in materials and manufacturing to SMEs in the province of British Columbia (BC).

This project consists in offering innovative SMEs facing any problem access to the institution's experts and their networks.

OCADU CO with the support of researchers from OCADU offers IRAP Design Thinking-based design critique and user interface evaluation services in support of IRAP’s mission. Design Thinking is a multi-disciplinary problem-solving approach that cultivates creative ideation, iterative prototyping, and concurrent business analysis using structured methods that promote deep understanding of real needs and the attainment of significant business outcomes. Design Thinking has been identified as a key approach for developing innovative solutions that are desirable, effective and viable.

Participants engage in authentic studio environments where art and design thinking promotes problem-focused solutions for workshopping ideas, product, service, and policy development. Their model is based on engaging participants in all three learning domains: cognitive (Head), affective (Heart), and psychomotor (Hand). Outcomes focus on the acquisition of knowledge, the development of affective investment in this knowledge and the change management of organizations, and the application via workplace project through prototype development. Their unique studio approach enables participants to accelerate learning and application into their workplace. They not only apply the principles of Design Thinking to business contexts, we foster the application of these ideas into individual workplaces to ensure acquisition and generation of “sticky knowledge” to ensure that participants are able to translate the results of these reviews into practical outcomes for their organization.

Conventional hydroponic grow operations have been under increased pressure to remain profitable, due to wage increases etc. The company has invested in indoor, vertical farming for new products: lettuce, basil and microgreens. The new product line is grown in indoor, completely separated cubes, with its own climate control and water irrigation - contributing to pesticide free products. The technology is not without it's structural and operational issues. We have hired a hydroponics college graduate to supervise the project, eliminate equipment breakdowns, improve labour productivity, and develop food safety procedures.

Development of recombinant enzymes that are used for clinical chemistry tests.
Process development for manufacturing recombinant diagnostic enzymes

The project will allow the firm to develop, through an experimental approach, a new range of tools for cutting building coverings that are wide: between 16 inches and 36 inches wide.