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Big ideas, big impact

For Canada’s top innovators, making breakthroughs means unleashing their ambition — and teaming up with collaborators around the corner and around the globe

Julie Stauffer

Simon Fraser University

The Hospital for Sick Children

University of Guelph

Polytechnique Montréal

University of Calgary

British Columbia

Condensed Matter Physics

Health Services Delivery

Music

Mechanical engineering

Space Science

Five sketches of human brains hang like lightbulbs from the ceiling

Canadian researchers lead the world in many fields, from child health to quantum computing. CFI’s Innovation Fund gives our most outstanding researchers the infrastructure they need to keep pushing boundaries.

Our 2017 Innovation Fund competition supported projects from across the country, from institutions both large and small. Some focus on discovery science, others on applied research. What they share is a game-changing sense of possibility — and the expertise to turn that vision into reality.

They’re also leveraging the power of collaboration, partnering with industry, federal and provincial organizations and investigators from a wide range of disciplines.

The results could transform many aspects of our life in Canada and beyond — as these five examples illustrate.