Canada

In Canada, GI protection is available to specific categories of products. For over twenty years, Canada has maintained a system to protect GIs for wines and spirits. As a result of the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (“CETA”), Canada expanded its GI protection to 24 categories...

The CETA Market Access Programme was launched in January 2017 by the European Union to help EU businesses, particularly SMEs, gain comprehensive and sector-specific information about the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) between the EU in Canada, provisionally implemented since 21...

The institute of Competitiveness and Prosperity of Canada has just released “The Canadian Cluster Handbook”. The handbook presents the importance of clusters to enable economic development. It provides information on the management of cluster organisation, growth and effectiveness. More importantly...

The update of Canada Preparatory Briefing is now available. The aim of this paper is to provide information on the cluster landscape in Canada. This to help European cluster organisations and their SME members to familiarise with the country and explore its potential for collaboration and market...

CALL FOR EXPRESSION OF INTEREST Deadline for the submission of the Expression of Interest is extended until 11 March 2019, end of the day The Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs of the European Commission (DG GROWTH), in cooperation with the German Federal...

The European Commission has the pleasure to pre-announce the EU Cluster Weeks main Anchor event that will take place on 1-2 April 2019, in the Hanover Fair premises (Hanover, Germany), in cooperation with the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi), in the context of the...

Canada has a long-standing culture of funding collaborative industry-university projects. Since 1989, collaborative research projects are funded by the Networks of Centres of Excellence (NCE). This year, the government of Canada has decided to review its funding scheme and to replace the NCE with...

Last October, on the exhibition Cosmetic 360, during the Cosmetics Cluster Rendez-vous, a partnership agreement between Canadian Cosmetic Cluster represented by its President, Margarita Sidorova, and Cosmetic Valley, represented by Jean-Luc ANSEL, its CEO & Founder, was signed. The Canadian cosmetic...

October 18, 2018, Toronto, ON – This week, the 21st TCI Network Global Conference brought cluster experts from across Canada and around the world to Toronto for three days of collaboration. The conference was hosted by the Institute for Competitiveness and Prosperity, an Ontario-based economic think...

Friday 21 September 2018 will mark the first anniversary of the provisional entry into force of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) between the EU and Canada. Early signs show that the agreement is already starting to deliver for EU exporters. Commissioner for Trade Cecilia...

The Water Environment Federation is a non-for-profit association, created in 1928, which aims to provide technical education and training to water professionals, to improve water quality and distribution. In May 2018, they took the leadership of an 18 water-clusters network across the US and Canada...

In May 2017, the Canadian Government launched the Innovation Supercluster Initiative (ISI). This initiative aims at boosting innovation, by creating superclusters, conceived as hotbeds for innovation, in key strategic industrial domains, pointed out by the Canadian Government at the inception of the...