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To further enhance Canada's research and development capacity in this significant area, NRC worked in partnership with the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and the Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) to develop an external competition to select multi-stakeholder nanotechnology research projects. In late April, the Government of Canada announced the five selected projects that will receive $3 million in funding over three years. (Please see: "New funding for nanotech applications"). These pioneering undertakings will bring together researchers from NRC, several Canadian universities and industry stakeholders to work on nanotechnology research in fields such as the environment, cleaner energy, and information and communication technologies.
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