INDUSTRY A proving ground for new technologies As climate change impacts increase, robust ocean technology and services designed to operate in all weather conditions are critical. Increased ocean and innovative data products are needed to better forecast our changing climate and ocean. ONC’s infrastructure can help mobilize domestic markets for these ocean technology products and services, fostering opportunities for ocean technology peer producers (startups, SMEs), peer consumers (large corporations, industries, international governments, and organizations), and partners (local and global) to collaborate and grow the ocean tech sector. With government support and investment, startups and SMEs can utilize Canada’s existing ocean infrastructure and expertise to test and develop new products and technologies, quickly moving the products to local and global markets.
Canada’s Ocean Tech Industry From instrumenting ferries and installing sensor packages on cabled and community observatories to monitoring our ocean and empowering coastal communities, ONC is playing a key role in growing Canada’s contribution towards managing and sustaining the global ocean.
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