Biotech proposal turned down.It was not a big surprise to Barbara Eccles Eccles (ek`əlz), town (1991 pop. 37,166), Salford metropolitan district, NW England, in the Manchester metropolitan area on the Manchester Ship Canal. Industries include chemicals, rubber, plastics, textiles, and light and heavy engineering. to find out that the application for a northwestern Ontario Northwestern Ontario is the region within the Canadian province of Ontario which lies north and west of Lake Superior, and west of Hudson Bay and James Bay. It includes most of subarctic Ontario. biotechnology cluster was turned down by the Ministry of Enterprise, Opportunity and Innovation. Northern Centre for Biotechnology and Clinical Research, formerly Neureka, has been selected by the province to lead a pan-northern biotechnology initiative for Northern Ontario Northern Ontario is the part of the province of Ontario which lies north of Lake Huron (including Georgian Bay), the French River and Lake Nipissing. Northern Ontario has a land area of 802,000 km² (310,000 mi²) and constitutes 87% of the land area of Ontario, although it . "It would have been nice to kick-start the development in the way we wanted to, but it does not mean (the biotechnology cluster for the northwest) is not going to work," Eccles, technology transfer officer at Lakehead University Lakehead University, at Thunder Bay, Ont., Canada; founded 1946 as Lakehead Technical Institute. It achieved university status in 1965. Lakehead has faculties of arts and science, business, education, engineering, forestry, library and information studies, nursing, says. "It may take a little bit longer." She believes one of the reasons their proposal was turned down was because they concentrated on the current and future environment of biotechnology in their area. "We wanted to look at where we are today, but also where we want to be when we grow up." "(The provincial government) wanted to know where you are now and what your strengths are now, so I do not think we fit into the mandate of the program," Eccles adds. This is not to say that northwestern Ontario will not pursue a biotechnology community. "What we would like to do is make sure that we have all the pieces in place that would encourage biotechnology businesses to grow and locate and be created in Thunder Bay Thunder Bay, city (1991 pop. 113,946), SW Ont., Canada, on Thunder Bay inlet of Lake Superior. The city was created in 1970 by the amalgamation of the twin cities of Fort William and Port Arthur and two adjoining townships. ." An official announcement on the Northern Ontario Biotechnology Institute The Biotechnology Institute is an independent nonprofit organization founded to teach the public about the benefits of biotechnology. It was created in 1998 by the biotechnology industry and is located in Arlington, Virginia. , the pan-northern cluster, is expected to be made on Aug. 8. |
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