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Atlantic Canada

Institute for Ocean Research Enterprise

What drew you to the oceans/maritime sector? like a reciprocal arrangement. So the ‘visiting membership’ aspect has been baked in from the start.

I am the son of a Navy of? cer and literally grew up around it, This has been formalized with a (December 2016 signed) the old ‘salt in the blood’ thing, It’s visceral, it’s personal. On MOU with the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. the other hand, it is a really cool set of people in this sector. UMass Dartmouth has the CIE, Center for Innovation and En-

You’ve got interesting characters and intellects who are gen- trepreneurship, which is a tech center and incubator owned erally collaborative and driven by curiosity and interest and and run by UMass Dartmouth. It was not designed to be ex- intellect instead of, frankly, crass commercialism. So on one plicitly ocean technology, but guess what … it’s mostly ocean hand while I’m saying the companies in this sector need to technology because it is southeast Massachusetts, and that’s be more commercially orientated, on the other hand, many of what they do there. What we are trying to do now is put meat these people are in it because they love the environment, the on the bones of the MOU, which will include: love the technology … it is an interesting and international business. • Exchange of Students: Not necessarily to take a course, but maybe to work a company internship.

Please discuss efforts on behalf of IORE to engage glob- al partnerships, whether it be through the inclusion of • Exchange of Market Opportunities: If an RFP come technologies and companies outside of your borders or out up here, we will ? ag it to our friends at CIE and the export of your technologies around the world. they will do the same for us. We can’t stipulate which opportunities are open to American nor can they tell

We are focusing that effort on COVE, the Center for Ocean us what is available to Canadians, but we at least will

Ventures and Entrepreneurship, IORE is now creating COVE cross-inform each other.

which is ‘brick and mortar,’ it’s a center, it’s a tech partner for the oceans with many of the things you might expect: an incu- • We’re (eventually) going to try to do Cross-Border bator for startups; shared workshops, space for researchers to Funded R&D Grants.

interact. Most importantly it is not xenophobic. The point is to not make this a local club for Halifax or Nova Scotia or even • Shared Facilities. At ? rst we need awareness, mean-

Canada, but literally to ? ing the doors open and encourage ing an inventory of equipment in each facility. This is interplay for folks anywhere. So we literally have carved out a an attempt to get better utilization out of the gear. All physical chunk with open desk areas, so if someone from Bal- of these facilities tend to have really interesting one- timore, for example, wants to come up here and explore the of-a-kind facilities. In the case of UMass Dartmouth, market in Atlantic Canada because there are lots of markets they have a Scanning Electron Microscope and in our evolving, come up here and spend two weeks. The only thing case we have some unique tanks; they are really won- we ask: if you have brick and mortar in your facility, we would derful capital assets but they tend to get under-utilized.

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