{"id":2347,"date":"2017-11-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2018\/02\/01\/innovation-anthology-915\/"},"modified":"2018-05-10T20:58:43","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T20:58:43","slug":"innovation-anthology-915","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2017\/11\/21\/innovation-anthology-915\/","title":{"rendered":"#915: NAIT Research:  Dr Chris Dambrowitz On PIC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5481\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5481\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5481\" src=\"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/17nait_ChrisDramowicz-e1525983069221-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/17nait_ChrisDramowicz-e1525983069221-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/17nait_ChrisDramowicz-e1525983069221.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5481\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr Chris Dambrowitz<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/Innovation Anthology 915.mp3\">Download MP3 Link<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>NAIT, the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology, is preparing to open a new building. \u00a0 \u00a0It\u2019s called the Productivity and Innovation Centre, or PIC.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Chris Dambrowitz is NAIT\u2019s Associate Vice President of Research and Innovation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DR CHRIS DAMBROWITZ:\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<em>It\u2019s a 185,000 square foot building. \u00a0It\u2019s got 2 components, including a massive 75,000 square foot pad which is going to have research in oil sands, \u00a0construction innovation, distributed power, industrial and remote rural water, and facilitated access to rapid form factor prototyping for companies to come in and use the gear that NAIT has. \u00a0It\u2019s all taxpayer supported. \u00a0And to be able to unlock the speed at which our companies can innovate on new products and be able to test and validate those out through a process that we\u2019re calling Tech Gym, or facilitated access, to that gear and that expertise that\u2019s here. \u00a0And we see that being delivered increasingly in partnership and seeing far beyond northern Alberta alone.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Dr Chris Dambrowitz sees the Productivity and Innovation Centre as a place that facilitates applied research between industry, universities and NAIT.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong><em>Learn more at Innovation Anthology.com<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>I\u2019M CHERYL CROUCHER<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Program Date:<\/strong>\u00a02017-11-21<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIT&#8217;s Dr Chris Dambrowitz outlines the special features of the Institute&#8217;s new Productivity and Innovation Centre.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,32,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alberta","category-innovation","category-technology","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2347"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5491,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2347\/revisions\/5491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}