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Name of Transfer Payment Program: NRC-Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC-IRAP)

Start Date: April 1, 2008

End Date: March 31, 2013

Description: This program provides a range of technical and business-oriented advisory services, as well as financial support for small and medium-sized (SME) Canadian businesses engaged in research and development of technological innovations. The program is important for enabling enterprises to generate significant economic activity for Canadian industry by augmenting the capacity and capability of enterprises to innovate and commercialize. Financial support is provided through a transfer payment program delivered by a cross-Canada network of more than 250 professionals, including over 230 Industrial Technology Advisors (ITAs), and located in approximately 100 communities. The field staff of professionals, recognized for their scientific, technical, engineering, business expertise, and knowledge of SMEs, provides clients with customized value-added advice, information, referrals and financial assistance. They work with clients at all stages of the innovation - commercialization continuum, including: project development; access to technical assistance, financial, business, marketing or management advice; access to competitive technical information; patent searches; and access to local, regional, national or international linkages. NRC-IRAP Innovation Network Advisors (INAs) represent and promote NRC-IRAP in the community innovation system and build effective regional innovation system relationships for the benefit of SMEs. This includes working with organizations that receive NRC-IRAP contributions as well as with other organizations to facilitate the implementation of multi-sector, multi-partner initiatives that are relevant to SMEs regionally and nationally. As well, the program supports the placement of graduates in SMEs through its participation in the delivery of Human Resources and Social Development Canada's Youth Employment Strategy (YES).

Strategic Outcome: Advancements in innovative technologies and increased innovation capacity in targeted Canadian industries and national priority areas.

Results Achieved: NRC-IRAP provided $232.8M to 3,098 firms and 190 organizations for 4,400 innovation projects that supported 12,821 jobs, including 1,442 for recent graduates.

Program Activity:
($ millions)

	2008-09 Actual Spending	2009-10 Actual Spending	2010-11 Planned Spending	2010-11 Total Authorities	2010-11 Actual Spending	Variance
Total Contributions	86.5	215.1	187.0	235.5	232.8	2.7
Total Program Activity	86.5	215.1	187.0	235.5	232.8	2.7

Comment on Variance: The Planned Spending amount of $187.0M represents the best known amount at the time the Main Estimates were prepared. The Total Authorities includes Planned Spending, amounts from Budget 2010, amounts from Supplementary Estimates, and other statutory authorities. The difference between the Planned Spending and the Total Authorities is $48.5M ($26.6M for a transfer from Industry Canada for Community Adjustment Fund (CAF), $16.2M for FedDev Ontario's Southern Ontario Development Program (SODP), $3.6M for Youths and $2.1M for Clusters contributions to Organizations). The $2.7M difference between the Total Authorities and the Actual Spending is principally due to a lapse in the contribution budget for NRC-IRAP.

Audit Completed or Planned: In progress, to be completed in 2011-12.

Evaluation Completed or Planned: 2011-12

Name of Transfer Payment Program: TRIUMF

Start Date: 1976

End Date: Continuing

Description: TRIUMF functions as Canada's national laboratory for research in subatomic physics and as Canada's gateway to international subatomic physics. It is operated as a joint venture by a consortium of more than 11 Canadian universities. TRIUMF houses a particle accelerator that produces energetic beams of subatomic particles for fundamental research in nuclear and particle physics and in nuclear medicine. This research lays the foundation for new technologies in the physical and life sciences, the facility being a unique and major contributor to advanced materials research in Canada and abroad. TRIUMF also operates four smaller cyclotrons used for medical research and to produce medical isotopes for the diagnosis and treatment of disease.

Strategic Outcome: Canadians have access to research and development information and infrastructure.

Results Achieved:

General

• Provided training and employment opportunities for 42 graduate and 72 undergraduate students.
• 622 external scientists visited TRIUMF.
• 203 users from different organizations used TRIUMF for research, medical and commercial activities.
• 198 publications in scientific journals.
• TRIUMF consortium grew to 17 members.
• ACSI, with whom TRIUMF has partnered, sold 11 cyclotrons last year, the best year to date, and the company is continuing to expand.
• AAPS, Inc., TRIUMF's partner in commercialization and a Centre of Excellence for Commercialization and Research (CECR), received $1.8M from Western Economic Development (WED) for development of geotomography using cosmic rays to locate buried ore bodies.
• 1 patent.
• $1,570,957 in royalty income.

Nuclear Science and Particle Physics

• Construction has commenced on ARIEL, which will include the next generation linear accelerator.
• Successfully piloted an experimental program using rare isotopes extracted from actinide targets in December 2010; original research results are being presented at the summer 2011 conferences that make use of facilities in Isotope Separator and Accelerator (ISAC).
• The ATLAS Tier-1 Data Centre at TRIUMF is ranked first in availability (up-time) of the 10 Tier-1 sites for the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) around the globe.

Nuclear Medicine

• WED announced $1M in funding for an upgrade of one of TRIUMF's nuclear-medicine laboratories to GMP compliance.
• TRIUMF led a team that received $6M in funding from NRCan to develop and demonstrate cyclotron-based production of Tc-99m, a critical medical isotope, using existing medical cyclotrons.
• TRIUMF proton beams treated 7 patients with otherwise incurable ocular cancer.

Program Activity:
($ millions)

	2008-09 Actual Spending	2009-10 Actual Spending	2010-11 Planned Spending	2010-11 Total Authorities	2010-11 Actual Spending	Variance
Total Contributions	43.5	44.0	19.3	45.0	45.0	0
Total Program Activity	43.5	44.0	19.3	45.0	45.0	0

Comment on Variance: N/A

Audit Completed or Planned: NRC prepares a multi-year risk based audit plan that is updated and approved annually. TRIUMF Transfer Payment Program (TPP) was assessed as low risk, so no internal audit is planned.

Evaluation Completed or Planned: 2013-14

Name of Transfer Payment Program: International Telescope Program

Start Date: 1978

End Date: Ongoing

Description: NRC, in partnership with other international bodies, provides financial contributions that support the management and operation of observatories maintained by the Canadian government and participates in the oversight and direction of the facilities and research.

Strategic Outcome: Canadians have access to research and development information and infrastructure.

Results Achieved:

• NRC's Canadian Astronomy Data Centre – the largest astronomy data centre in the world, housing 500 Terabytes of science data – served 170 Terabytes of astronomy data to roughly 2,000 professional astronomers (out of a world population of perhaps 10,000).
• 341 scientific papers were published based on data obtained using the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope, and the Gemini Observatory.
• Building on NRC's award-winning work in composite antennas, a successful conceptual design review was held for a novel composite antenna for a next-generation radio telescope, the Square Kilometre Array.

Program Activity:
($ millions)

	2008-09 Actual Spending	2009-10 Actual Spending	2010-11 Planned Spending	2010-11 Total Authorities	2010-11 Actual Spending	Variance
Total Contributions	10.5	10.7	5.5	10.8	10.3	0.5
Total Program Activity	10.5	10.7	5.5	10.8	10.3	0.5

Comment on Variance: The International Telescope Program manages agreements with a variety of partners to operate and maintain off-shore telescopes for the benefit of the Canadian astronomy community. Contributions to the majority of these agreements are made in U.S. dollars. The strength of the Canadian dollar in the last year has meant that NRC's actual expenditures were less than had been forecast on the basis of a strong American dollar.

Audit Completed or Planned: NRC prepares a multi-year risk based audit plan that is updated and approved annually. The Telescope TPP was assessed as low risk, so no internal audit is planned.

Evaluation Completed or Planned: 2011-12