The provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) Tuesday to cooperate with research and innovation initiatives at the BIO International Convention in Washington, DC.
The LOI recognizes the two provinces’ history of cooperation in areas such as electricity, transportation and emergency response, and focuses on key priority
Areas of mutual interest in the research and innovation: crop agriculture, bioenergy, bioproducts, environment, humans, and animal health.
Wilf Keller, President and CEO of Ag-West Bio and Genome Prairie, said “The provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba should be commended for their dedication to work together on research and innovation initiatives in areas of mutual interest.”
“Although they work together on many levels already, this signifies their recognition of the importance of the bioscience sector.”
The Bi-Provincial Genomics Innovation Summit was organized by Genome Prairie and held in Winnipeg Oct. 13, 2010. The event was well attended and supported by the Government of Saskatchewan and Manitoba, industry and academic representatives. The discussions focus on key bi-provincial priority areas, all of which appeared in the LOI signed Tuesday.
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