Dec 2007
The 1986 Agreement on Cooperation in Science and Technology forms the foundation of the Canada-Japan science and technology (S&T) relationship. Since the signing of the agreement, collaboration between the Canadian and Japanese governments, as well as between universities and research institutions, has multiplied. These partnerships offer each country the opportunity to achieve more than it could independently, in terms of knowledge creation, innovation capacity and commercialization.
Significant complementarities between Canada and Japan in S&T exist in the areas of life sciences, information and communication technologies, earth sciences, environment, space, nanotechnology and renewable energy. A foundation has been laid for the promotion of research collaboration in many of these fields through the work of the Canada-Japan Joint Committee on Science and Technology Cooperation and its Joint Panels on Space Science, Earth Science and Environment, and Brain Science. |
