The Commercialization Team Sault Ste. Marie

3. The Commercialization TeamSault Ste. Marie Sector Specialist

4. The Commercialization TeamSudbury Commercialization Specialist Martin Litchfield Wood Products / Energy & Supply / Service Sector

5. All Contribute – All Gain iiON / technology centers bring: • Expertise & Experience • Business Development • Marketing • Communications • Relationships • Other NPOs • Government • Academic Community • Clients • Funding • Governance • Administration • Oversight

6. All Contribute – All Gain SSM Sector Specialist brings: • Expertise & Experience • Bioenergy • Biomass Procurement, Transportation & Processing • Industrial Processes • Business, Financial & Entrepreneurial

7. All Contribute – All Gain SSM Sector Specialist brings: • Relationships • Forest Product Companies • Equipment Manufacturers • Industrial Suppliers & Service Providers • Regulatory Agencies • A Fresh Approach

8. All Contribute – All Gain Executive Director brings: • Experience & Expertise • Integrative Medicine • Medical Tourism • Nutraceuticals / Functional Foods • Health/Immigration Policy • Pharmaceuticals/Biologicals • Medical Device Technology • Drug Delivery Systems

9. Building Relationships Academic Community Research Centers Governments Sector Specialist Funding Agencies EDO’s Innovation Networks/ OCN Industry Business

10. Commercialization Team Putting the Pieces Together Funding Client R & D Financing Marketing Feedstock Technology Opportunity

11. Working Definitions • Bioproduct: • Any product derived from living material. This includes not only conventional forest products such as lumber, pulp and paper, OSB, MDF, bioenergy and wood pellets but more especially innovative products such as value-added wood products, thermal wood, composite materials, new engineered wood products, ethanol, biochemicals, natural products, pharmaceuticals, nutriceuticals etc.

12. Working Definitions • Bioeconomy: • The production of conventional and innovative bioproducts, including the culture and harvesting of raw biomaterials for feedstock, biomass procurement, transportation and harvesting, bioenergy production, marketing, sales and distribution, and all ancillary services required to support these activities.

13. Bioplastics & Composites Bio- Refining Natural Products Biodiesel Wood Pellets Thermal Wood Value Added Bioenergy Growing the Bioeconomy Pharmaceuticals & Biochemicals

14. Working Definitions • Clients: • Those companies, entrepreneurs, agencies and individuals to whom we provide commercialization services. These services could include providing information, advice and mentoring; introductions to service providers, technical resources, research and development resources, funding agencies and potential customers. Services could potentially also include the preparation of business plans and grant applications.

15. Client Priority • Existing large employers who need to improve efficiency or diversify product line • Established businesses wishing to locate production in Northern Ontario • Existing SME’s wishing to commercialize new products or processes • Start-up companies with new products or processes • Researchers or inventors wishing to commercialize new products or processes

16. The BioVision • To strengthen and enhance the role of the technology centres both locally and regionally • To play a significant role in making Northern Ontario a world leader in the new bioeconomy

17. The BioVision • To complete 3 major projects over the next five years • To commercialize 3 new bioproducts or processes over the next five to ten years

18. In the Past iiON has: • Provided strategic advice and support to Northern Ontario’s bioeconomic development through: • Assisting with the development of natural product research and commercialization efforts involving a number of organizations i.e. GLFC, OFRI, NOSM, UWO, private sector.

19. In the Past iiON has: • Provided strategic advice and support to Northern Ontario’s bioeconomic development through: • Representing the interests of Northern Ontario at a number of conferences and workshops across the province.

20. In the Past iiON has: • Provided strategic advice and support to Northern Ontario’s bioeconomic development through: • IION has recently supported two very successful Bioenergy workshops in Echo Bay and Wawa.

21. In the Past iiON has: • Made the case to Algoma University on the benefits of establishing a Research Chair in Natural Product Chemistry • Initiated the start of a growing partnership with UWO & their BIOTRON facility – now two major CFI apps from Algoma (Natural Health Products)

22. In the Past iiON has: • Initiated the start of a growing partnership with UWO Research Park. • Organized a significant workshop in SSM in biorefining attracting participants from North and South Ontario and Quebec representing universities, private industry, forestry organizations and not for profits.

23. In the Past iiON has: • Provided local businesses such as St. Mary’s, FlakeBoard, Sault Disposal, Forest BioProducts Inc. and other organizations including seA and ULERN with technical advice on biomass processing technologies.

24. Currently iiON is: • Strongly supporting the development of a proposal to create a bioeconomy geoportal as a comprehensive economic development tool. (could be multi-year & multi-$$) • Providing funding to support bioproducts and health sector directories from SSMIC

25. Current iiON Projects: • Chapleau Biomass Project – • 10 mW net gasification engine-generation project using plasma torch gas cleaning technology. First commercial demonstration of this technology. • Ready for financing • SITTM Biodiesel • Established client with SSMIC • Ready to develop commercial scale production unit

26. Currently iiON is: • Hearst Biomass Project • Established Client • Previous development attempts unsuccessful • Ready to take a fresh look at opportunities

27. Currently iiON is: • Investigating Other Potential Clients: • Enligna: Austrian wood pellet manufacturer acively seeking pelletizing plant opportunities in Northern Ontario

28. Currently iiON is: • Investigating Other Potential Clients: • EDF-EN: Large French renewable energy owner-operator seeking opportunities for wind, solar or biomass power in Canada

29. Currently iiON is: • Investigating Other Potential Clients: • New Energy Corp.: A Calgary manufacturer of innovative hydro-electric generators, seeking markets in Northern Ontario, very suitable for First Nations. • Also should anticipate collaborative efforts in other sectors eg. health, value added forestry, mining support sector from NORCAT and TB.

30. Ongoing: • Also Involved with: • Northern Ontario Growth Plan • Sudbury Health Cluster / Innovation Sudbury • North Eastern Ontario Pharmacology Network • Boreal Bioprospecting Initiative • Supershell, sustainable homes development, North Bay • Wildly Canadian

31. Going Forward: • Some Health Care Hot Spots: • Molecular medicine: mitochondrial DNA, genetic DNA analysis • Miscellaneous genetic research applications • Cancer research – including diagnosis, staging and treatment platforms • Telemedicine and rural service delivery

32. Going Forward: • Some Health Care Hot Spots: • World class clinical trial expertise and capacity • Health care informatics/medical geography • A variety of eclectic research initiatives from NOSM, including natural and traditional pharmacological sources

33. Going Forward: • Additional Opportunities: • Health promotion • Targeted bioprospecting of forest and agriculture based substances • Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods

34. Going Forward: • Additional Opportunities: • Clinical research organizations: traditional and specialized eg. evaluating the safety and efficacy of nutritional therapies • Toll manufacturing opportunities eg. devices, drug delivery systems, nutraceuticals, biologicals?

35. Going Forward: • Additional Opportunities: • Development of medical devices • Delivery system technologies • Integrated patient and clinical data systems

36. OCN Review • Provincial Innovation Networks: • Considered to be the “hubs” of the OCN as they provide linkages to provincial programs and serve as a gateway to global business, science and investment resources.

37. OCN Review • Regional Innovation Networks: • Regionally-based, multi-stakeholder, not-for-profit entities driven by the private sector to identify, develop, and implement strategies to enhance a region’s innovative capacity.

38. OCN Review • Sector Innovation Networks: • Not-for-profit organizations that have a strong sector focus with provincial scope and the capacity to deliver commercialization and other expertise. • Incubators: • Organizations that cultivate technological entrepreneurship by promoting commercialization of research and technology from, and to, academic institutions.

40. OCN Review • Develop options for the OCN Model. • Including: organizational design, resources • Various proposed options • Develop specific organizational mandates.