Tool for Monitoring Energy Consumption

Immediately relevant research supporting responsible resource management -- that's what iCORE Industry Chair, Power Quality, Dr. Wilson Xu and his team at the U of A are working on. Xu has developed Enertracker, a tool giving homeowners real-time data on the energy their appliances use. With this data, awareness, understanding and greater control over energy choices and options is possible. Through Alberta Innovates-Technology Futures, ideas become innovations... and innovations become high value products and services with economic impact.

Alberta - Finland Innovation and Commercialization Program: Companies are invited to apply for funding

Technology Futures is opening the second call for proposals for the Alberta - Finland Innovation and Commercialization Program.

The $2 million program will allow small to medium-sized Alberta enterprises to partner with Finland companies in the following areas:

• Clean Technologies
• Advanced Materials
• Instrumentation/Sensors
• Health
• Information and Communications Technology (ICT)

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Calling all young innovators! Get your geek on with geekStarter!

geekStarter is helping the next generation achieve breakthroughs in research and innovation! Interested student teams apply to receive both funding and access to geekStarter events. geekStarter supports teams of Alberta students in Nanotechnology, Information and Communications Technology and Omics (Genomics, Proteomics, Metabolomics, Transcriptomics and Regulomics) -based competitions, including the International Genetically Engineered Machine Competition (iGEM), Microsoft Imagine Cup, and Association for Computing Machinery (ACM-ICPC) Contests. Grants are competitive. Read more.

Alberta Innovates functions as a globally competitive research and innovation system. Within the system government, industry and academia interact to develop solutions to global challenges and use knowledge for the growth and diversification of Alberta’s economy.  Alberta Innovates operates as an integrated system aligned with the strategies and priorities of Government of Alberta line departments.

Four corporations make up the Alberta Innovates family:

Bio Solutions supports research and innovation growing prosperity in Alberta's agriculture, food and forestry sectors.

Health Solutions supports research efforts to further our understanding of health and disease, and to produce results that will make a difference to the health, economy and societal wellbeing of Albertans and people around the world.

Energy and Environment Solutions supports energy and environmental research and innovation in Alberta and is working to develop solutions for the biggest challenges facing these sectors.

Technology Futures supports research and innovation activities directed at the growth and development of technology-based sectors, the commercialization of technology, the provision of business and technical services, and initiatives that encourage a strong science, technology and entrepreneurial culture in Alberta. 

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