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Program ID: Innovation Anthology #188
Program Date: 11/27/2008
Program Category: Nanotechnology

Nano Alberta at Nanotech Showcase

While the essence of nano is all things small, there’s nothing tiny about the effort to build a strong nanotechnology industry in Alberta.

That’s what brought more than 200 people to Edmonton last week for the first Nanotech Showcase. This was hosted Alberta Ingenuity and Alberta Advanced Education and Technology.

Presenting at the two day conference was Dr. Gary Albach, the new executive director of NanoAlberta.

DR. GARY ALBACH: Well the first thing is getting NanoAlberta started: staffing, new people, the budgets, the direction. The strategy for the province was introduced about a year ago. It’s an industrial strategy for nanotechnology in Alberta. And it’s generally recognized across the country as being one of the best articulated, best funded and best thought out industrial strategies.

Dr. Albach says Alberta’s capacity, with NINT and its university research, makes it the nanotechnology centre of Canada.

Thanks today to Alberta Ingenuity.

I'M CHERYL CROUCHER

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