MICA
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The Mining Innovation Commercialization Accelerator (MICA) Network was created on July 9, 2021 through an investment of $40 million from the Government of Canada’s Strategic Innovation Fund. MICA is a $112.4 million pan-Canadian initiative bringing together stakeholders from a wide range of fields to accelerate the development and commercialization of innovative technologies to make the mining sector more productive and sustainable.
Le Réseau de l’Accélérateur de commercialisation d’innovation minière (ACIM) a été fondé le 9 juillet 2021 à la suite d’un investissement de 40 millions de dollars du Fonds stratégique pour l’innovation du gouvernement du Canada. L’ACIM est une initiative pancanadienne de 112,4 millions de dollars regroupant des représentants d’un éventail de domaines. Les membres s’emploient à accélérer la mise au point et la commercialisation de technologies innovatrices afin d’accroître la productivité et la durabilité du secteur minier.
CEM
CEMI’s objective is to help the mining sector achieve step-change improvement in performance by accelerating the adoption of innovations in mines and by increasing the innovation capacity of the mining service companies that deliver techniques and technologies to the industry. There is no shortage of good ideas, or partially developed solutions to the very real problems that confront mining operations, but the process of converting these into commercially viable products and services that mining companies can adopt, is slow and difficult. The need for mines to achieve step-change improvement in operational performance is urgent and we are finding ways to make this happen more quickly and efficiently.
We focus on:
- Accelerating the commercialization of technical solutions to be market ready — Viable Products & Services
- Managing networks of technical solution providers and innovative SMEs — Sector Collaboration
- Systematically target issues relevant to the global mining industry as well as regional and national ones
— SME Export Market
- Searching globally for solutions to locally critical operational bottleneck — Industry-Identified Priorities
