INNOVATION Quebec

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INNOVATION Quebec

One of the largest geographic area’s in North America, Québec covers 1,667,926km2. Its borders spans from Ontario to New Brunswick and Newfoundland and Labrador, and from the U.S. border to the Arctic. As an international hub of innovation, Québec is world renown in fields such as AI and Bio Technology, as well as many more. Along with its major urban centres of Montreal and Québec City, its many regions are also the home of world class research and innovation. Over 200 academic and commercial organizations foster the growth of Québec’s vibrant innovation ecosystem.

INNOVATION Québec is a tech-enabled coffee-table book featuring the champions and leaders of Québec innovation, both the well-established, and the disruptors alike. Its 400+ pages feature stories by the organizations that are shaping the Québec of today and tomorrow through research, mentoring, facilitating, and funding. This important showcase also features exclusive Thought Leader pieces by Québec’s visionaries and leaders in innovation. Through its unique Augmented Reality videos, images on the book’s pages come to life when scanned with the free Global Village Publishing app for IOS and Android.

INNOVATION Québec is co-produced and edited by Luc Sirois, Québec’s Chief Innovation Officer, and The Québec Innovation Council.

The inaugural edition of INNOVATION Québec and web platform is an important reference, and can be used as a “toolbox” for entrepreneurs to seek out organizations and leaders in their respective field who can offer assistance with growing and prospering in Québec.

L’une des plus grandes régions géographiques d’Amérique du Nord, le Québec, couvre 1 667 926 km2. Ses frontières s’étendent de l’Ontario au Nouveau-Brunswick et à Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador, ainsi que de la frontière américaine à l’Arctique. En tant que pôle international d’innovation, le Québec est mondialement reconnu dans des domaines tels que l’IA et la biotechnologie, et bien d’autres encore.

En plus de ses grands centres urbains que sont Montréal et Québec, ses nombreuses régions sont également le siège de recherches et d’innovations de classe mondiale. Plus de 200 organisations universitaires et commerciales y favorisent la croissance de l’écosystème d’innovation dynamique du Québec.

INNOVATION Québec est un livre de référence qui présente les champions et les chefs de file de l’innovation au Québec. Ses plus de 400 pages présentent les histoires des organisations qui façonnent le Québec d’aujourd’hui et de demain par la recherche, le mentorat, la facilitation et le financement. Cette importante vitrine présente également des articles exclusifs sur les leaders d’opinion, rédigés par des visionnaires et des chefs de file de l’innovation au Québec. Grâce à ses vidéos uniques en réalité augmentée, les images des pages du livre prennent vie lorsqu’elles sont placées sous la caméra de votre téléphone à l’aide de l’application gratuite Global Village Publishing pour iOS et Android.

INNOVATION Québec est co-produit et édité par Luc Sirois, Innovateur en chef du Québec, ainsi que le Conseil de l’innovation du Québec.

L’édition inaugurale d’INNOVATION Québec et de la plateforme web est une référence importante, et peut être utilisée comme une “boîte à outils” pour les entrepreneurs afin de rechercher des organisations et des leaders dans leur domaine respectif qui peuvent offrir de l’aide et du soutien pour grandir et prospérer au Québec.

Featured Thought Leaders

Featured Thought Leaders

Featured Innovators

Featured Innovators

CILEX

CILEX- AU SERVICE DES ENTREPRENEURS D’AUJOURD’HUI ET DE DEMAIN

DEDICATED TO ENTREPRENEURS OF TODAY AND OF THE FUTURE

Created in 2005 as the Language Technologies Research Centre, the incubator-accelerator Cilex has always nursed a great passion for technological innovation. Reoriented in 2014 and renamed Cilex in 2016, the non-profit organization is now dedicated to the development of a culture of innovation in the entire Outaouais region and the...

CCEG

CCTT EN GÉRONTOLOGIE

Le seul et unique centre de recherche collégial sur le vieillissement au Canada – Le CCEG, leader, partenaire et ambassadeur. Le Centre collégial d’expertise en gérontologie (CCEG) se préoccupe des multiples dimensions du vieillissement de la population. Il contribue ainsi activement à faire avancer la compréhension des enjeux des personnes...

CHAUDIÈRES-APPALACHES ÉCONOMIQUE

ESPACE RÉGIONAL ACCÉLÉRATION ET CROISSANCE DES ENTREPRISES

Depuis près de 15 ans, Chaudière-Appalaches Économique (CAÉ) a pour mission de stimuler le développement économique en soutenant la cohérence et la mise en commun des actions et des services de ses membres, en concertation avec les organismes partenaires du développement économique et dans le respect de leurs mandats. Parmi...

CÉPROCQ

Dès 2000, le CÉPROCQ s’est positionné comme une vitrine technologique à l’échelle pilote des procédés d’extraction et de séparation dans les domaines des technologies bioindustrielles et des technologies environnementales en faisant la promotion des procédés verts appelés communément procédés propres ou écoprocédés: fluides supercritiques, développement de solvants verts, minimisation et traitement des déchets et des rejets industriels, etc

Ainsi, le CÉPROCQ a, de façon précoce, fait asseoir ses priorités stratégiques sur la chimie verte et le développement durable devenus aujourd’hui incontournables dans la croissance de l’industrie. Le CÉPROCQ est l’un des rares centres au Québec, voire au Canada, à offrir une infrastructure de recherche à l’échelle pilote venant,...

ExperiSens

CCTT IN THE MULTISENSORY CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE AND HOSPITALITY

ExperiSens is a college centre for the transfer of technologies and innovative social practices (CCTT) at the Institut de tourisme et d’hôtellerie du Québec (ITHQ) that performs applied research and provides technical assistance, training, and information to tourismand hospitality organizations and professionals while enriching the ITHQ’s educational mission. Optimizing hospitality...

DEL

THE BUSINESS RIGHT-HAND MAN FOR ENTREPRENEURS

For 20 years, DEL (Développement économique de l’agglomération de Longueuil) has been supporting entrepreneurs and accelerating the realization of their business projects. How? By offering personalized business coaching, mostly free of charge. DEL’s objective is simple: to help businesses in the greater Longueuil area succeed through its services:• Innovation• Digitization...

STARTUP MONTRÉAL

WE ARE STARTUP MONTRÉAL, AN NPO WHOSE MISSION IS TO MAXIMIZE THE POSITIVE IMPACT OF THE MONTRÉAL STARTUP ECOSYSTEM AND MAKE IT SHINE, HERE AND ELSEWHERE

Our vision: To have an attractive Montréal startup ecosystem that is internationally recognized for its performance, diversity, and impact. Our activities are based on five pillars that guide the development of our projects and programs. We are working to make the ecosystem increasingly accessible, collaborative, diverse, and impactful, and to...

AG-BIO CENTRE

INCUBATEUR POUR BESOINS D’AVENIR

Situé dans le complexe technologique du Cégep de Lévis, AG-Bio Centre occupe une place unique dans le monde des incubateurs d’entreprises innovantes au Québec. L’incubateur créer en 2002, est issu d’une volonté des gens du milieu des affaires en partenariat avec le Cégep et en collaboration avec la faculté des...

PRIMA

Se démarquer sur les marchés grâce auxmatériaux avancés et… à PRIMA Québec

Standing out in the market thanks to advanced materials... and PRIMA Québec

PRIMA Québec is the advanced materials research and innovation hub that supports and promotes the advanced materials ecosystem and acts as an engine of innovation and economic growth in Quebec.   It is a leading catalyst between the industrial and research communities. Acting as a sectoral industrial research group (SIRG),...

ERAC DU SAGUENAY-LAC ST-JEAN

The rootsFor nearly 20 years, in Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean – a region of more than 275,000 inhabitants located 500 km northeast of Montréal – concerted initiatives have been deployed to stimulate innovation among SMEs. Idéa innovation PME (2004-2010), then Innovation 02 (2011-2019) generated activities in turn to support innovation. It was when...

TransBIOTech

CCTT IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Founded in 1999 at the request of the Cégep de Lévis, TransBIOTech is a college centre for biotech transfer that draws on the Cégep’s biotechnolog y and analytical chemistry technical programs. As a non-profit organization, we focus on demonstrating the efficacy and safety of natural active compounds for use in...

UQAT

RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MINES AND ENVIRONMENT (RIME)

RIME, Solutions for Sustainable Mining DevelopmentLocated in the heart of a world-class mining sector, the Research Institute of Mines and Environment (RIME-UQAT) has been created in 2012, a strategic decision demonstrating the institution’s commitment to sustainable development in the mining sector. With a strong and constant growth since its inception,...

INÉDI

CCTT IN INDUSTRIAL DESIGN

Industrial designers contribute to the creation of the products that you interact with. Whether you are a farmer, athlete, therapist, circus performer or manufacturer, it is likely that an industrial designer has been involved in the design of the experiences, services and products that you use on a daily basis....

UNITÉ DE SOUTIEN AU SYSTÈME DE SANTÉ APPRENANT (SSA) QUÉBEC

Ensemble pour un système de santé qui apprend

Impossible de refaire sans cesse la même chose en espérant un résultat différent. C’est pourquoi nous devons repenser notre système de santé et innover afin d’en faire un système qui apprend.   Le défi collectif de l’amélioration continue du système de santé québécois est de taille. Comment réussir le changement...

BAS-SAINT-LAURENT

THE ESPACE D’ACCÉLÉRATION ET DE CROISSANCE DU BAS-SAINT-LAURENT FACILITATES INNOVATION PROJECTS

Our interventions include networking, collaboration and referral of experts who offer entrepreneurs technical and business support services. Exemplary regional cooperationThe EAC BSL is led by the Collectif régional de développement (CRD). Created by the eight MRCs of Bas-Saint-Laurent, this consultation and planning organization’s mission is to promote and support the...

INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE SUR L’HYDROGÈNE (IRH)

Fondé en 1994, l’Institut de recherche sur l’hydrogène (IRH) de l’Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières est un des centres les plus expérimentés et reconnus dans le domaine de la recherche et du développement des technologies de l’hydrogène. L’IRH se donne pour mission de répondre à l’urgence climatique par la formation,...

THE INSTITUT QUANTIQUE OF UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE

Founded in 2016, the Institut quantique (IQ) of the Université de Sherbrooke brings together more than 300 world-renowned scientists specializing in quantum materials, information and engineering to conduct fundamental research and develop quantum technologies. From the architecture of quantum computers to superconductivity and the exploration of new states of matter,...

PROPULSION QUÉBEC

Propulsion Quebec in briefCommitment on the part of the Quebec industry and government to accelerate the development of the Quebec Electric and Smart Transportation (EST) sector led to the creation of Propulsion Québec, the industrial cluster for electric and smart transportation in Quebec, on April 20, 2017. As an industrial...

InnovÉÉ

InnovÉÉ-Unir idées et savoir

Unite knowledge and ideas

Innovations in the electric energy as well as electric and smart transportation sectors are the driving force behind the energy transition underway in Quebec and elsewhere in the world. InnovÉÉ’s mission is to stimulate, support and finance collaborative research projects in the fields of electric energy as well as electric...

C2MI

LE PLUS GRAND CENTRE DE RECHERCHE ET DÉVELOPPEMENT EN SYSTÈMES ÉLECTRONIQUES AU CANADA

ON FABRIQUE LE VISAGE NUMÉRIQUE DU QUÉBEC DEPUIS 10 ANS !Né d’une collaboration entre l’Université de Sherbrooke, Teledyne DALSA et IBM Canada, inauguré en juillet 2012, le Centre de Collaboration MiQro Innovation est le plus important centre de recherche de classe mondiale dans le domaine de la microélectronique au Canada....

MECANIUM

CCTT IN MECHATRONICS AND INDUSTRIAL MECHANICS

Our mission at MECANIUM is to support Quebec manufacturing SMEs by designing and achieving mechatronic solutions to help them increase their knowledge, productivity and competitiveness and optimize their products and processes. We are also committed to promoting knowledge dissemination through training and knowledge transfer. As an innovation centre for mechatronics...

ÉCOLE DE TECHNOLOGIE SUPÉRIEURE

ON THE INTEGRATION OF INDUSTRY 4.0 TECHNOLOGIES (2018-2028)

The three major research projects headed by Siemens Research Chair on the Integration of Industry 4.0 Technologies are the result of a work carried out over a year by Professor Hany Moustapha and many collaborators. Funded by Siemens, NSERC and MITACS, these projects bring together the expertise of 20 professors...

UQAT - NOUVEAUX MÉDIAS

CREATION AND NEW MEDIA

A pioneer in university teaching in video games, digital creation and 3D creation, UQAT’s Creation and New Media Teaching and Research Unit has been contributing to the development of the digital and cultural industries for over 20-years. The expertise of the teaching team, based in Montreal and Rouyn-Noranda, is internationally...

CTRI

FOR INDUSTRIAL WASTE

Our mission at Centre technologique des résidus industriels (CTRI) is to promote socio-economic development by providing support to companies in the mining, forest and agricultural sectors. Through exploring, identifying and achieving innovative solutions for the valorization of industrial waste and underutilized natural resources, we aim to accelerate the implementation of...

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The Publisher

Brahm Glickman

Technology and innovation have always been, and continue to be, the driving force behind Brahm’s entrepreneurial success. His passion for the printed word and image has enabled him to transcend his sales experience to the publishing industry. Being an Associate Publisher with Global Village World is the perfect culmination of Brahm’s business experience and his... click to read more

The Publisher

Brahm Glickman

Technology and innovation have always been, and continue to be, the driving force behind Brahm’s entrepreneurial success. His passion for the printed word and image has enabled him to transcend his sales experience to the publishing industry. Being an Associate Publisher with Global Village World is the perfect culmination of Brahm’s business experience and his... click to read more

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