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View some progressive, technology-based strategies - some with focus on the "traditional" resource sector and others in countries with "ancient" (Archean) gold endowments. Add a link or description of your supportive exploration technology policies . This space is provided as a public service to solution- /design- / results- focused explorers, researchers, managers, executives; technology and strategy developers with the aim of advancing integrated technological development, precompetitive R&D, commercialization and application in a traditional sector. (no warranty implied, copyright per respective authors, owners).

Many sites focus on precompetitive R&D initiatives for which some definition is in order:

Precompetitive R&D - A definition

-basic and applied R & D done collaboratively

-may include part of the development phase

-research results which are not immediately marketable, but may lead to creation of new products and services

-participating entitities have no immediate intention of marketing it

-activity involves resolution of a common technological problem

-activity may focus on developing families of products that will be adapted and delivered according to joint marketing requirements

Policy and Strategy Links - Country, Regional

AFRICA

African Ministerial Council on Science and Technology (AMCOST) and New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD)

http://www.nepadst.org/

http://www.nepadst.org/doclibrary/pdfs/6th_sc_resolutions.pdf

African Regional Intellectual Property Organization (ARIPO)

http://www.aripo.org/articles.php?lng=en&pg=12

Assembly of the African Union- 8th Session, Addis Ababa Ethiopia, January 2007

http://www.africa-union.org/root/AU/Conferences/Past/2007/January/summit/doc/Decisions%20and%20Declarations%20-%208th%20Ordinary%20Session%20of%20the%20Assembly.pdf

South Africa- Ten Year Innovation Plan

http://www.nstf.org.za/content_main/10_YEAR_INNOVATION_PLAN14_AUGUST_2007.pdf

The SA Intellectual Property Fund

http://www.triumphvc.co.za/asp/saipFund.asp?mainId=3&pageId=2

United Nations for Africa, NEPAD initiative

Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) Science and Technology Network (ESTNET)

http://www.uneca.org/estnet/about/aboutus.htm

AUSTRALIA

Policy Development

http://backingaus.innovation.gov.au

AuScope Pty. Ltd. - National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy NCRIS ($162.6 million investment, FY2007-2011)

http://www.auscope.org.au

http://www.ncris.dest.gov.au

Australian Research Council (ARC) :

http://http://www.arc.gov.au/about_arc/policy.htm [Priority Areas for ARC funding]

http://http://www.arc.gov.au/about_arc/default.htm [Strategic Plans]

Geoscience Australia (GA)

Budget, Geoscientific ($144 million, 2007-08, $125 million, 2006-07):

http://www.industry.gov.au/ [A-Z INDEX] [budgets][Federal Budget 2007-08] [2007-08 Portfolio Budget Statements] [04 Geoscience Australia]

Cooperative Research, Standards, Alliances

http://www.ga.gov.au/bridge/standards.jsp

Chief Government Geologists' Committee: Mission Statement & Key Objectives

http://www.geoscience.gov.au/mission_statement_key_objectives_ggipac.jsp

Work Programs - Current Projects

http://www.geoscience.gov.au/work_programs_current_ggipac.jsp

Cooperative Research Centres(CRC-)

http://backingaus.innovation.gov.au/2004/commercial/crc.htm

Commercializing Emerging Technologies (COMET) Programme ($130 million 1999-2011)

AusIndustry- Early Stage Venture Capital Limited Partnership (ESVCLP); Innovation Investment Fund (IIF); Pooled Development Funds (PDF) Program; Pre-Seed Fund; Venture Capital Limited Partnerships Program (VCLP)

http://www.ausindustry.gov.au/content/level2index.cfm?objectID=91C779C9-E2FF-4B9B-8A3C0EC058CE647C

http://backingaus.innovation.gov.au/2004/commercial/comet.htm

Commercialization of Research, Predictive Mineral Discovery Cooperative Research Centre (pmd*CRC) - Ausmodel Pty. Ltd.

http://www.pmdcrc.com.au/board.html /Commercial Advisory Committee

Industry, Tourism and Resources-

Global Integration: Changing Markets, New Opportunities- [Industry Statement], [Strategic Plan]

IP Australia- http://www.industry.gov.au/ [A-Z INDEX] [budgets][Federal Budget 2007-08] [2007-08 Portfolio Budget Statements] [03 IP Australia]

CANADA

Government of Canada, Canada

Advantage Canada- Knowledge Advantage http://www.fin.gc.ca/ec2006/plan/plc3e.html

Federal Budgets http://www.fin.gc.ca/access/budinfoe.html

Innovation Strategy Submissions (available links, 2007) http://www.aucc.ca/_pdf/english/reports/2007/knowledge_int_02_12_e.pdf

Mobilizing Science and Technology to Canada's Advantage: http://www.ic.gc.ca/cmb/welcomeic.nsf/532340a8523f33718525649d006b119d/1f5791c88cd2af42852572de00503b97!OpenDocument

Science, Technology and Innovation Council (New) http://www.ic.gc.ca/cmb/welcomeic.nsf/ddb0aecf65375eb685256a870050319e/85256a5d006b9720852572fa005fd494!OpenDocument

Advisory Council on Science and Technology http://acst-ccst.gc.ca/home_e.html

Council of Science and Technology Advisors http://www.csta-cest.ca/

Expert Panel on Commercialization http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/epic/site/epc-gdc.nsf/en/tq00018e.html

Speech from the Throne Oct. 2007 http://www.sft-ddt.gc.ca/eng/media.asp?id=1364

Natural Resources Canada, Minerals and Metals Sector

Exploration Activity Survey: http://mmsd1.mms.nrcan.gc.ca/mmsd/exploration/default_e.asp

Contacts: http://www.nrcan.gc.ca/mms/au_e.htm#info

R&D in Canada's Mining and Mineral Processing Industries http://www.nrcan.gc.ca/mms/pdf/info-rd_e.pdf

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC):

Collaborative Research and Development (CRD) Grants

http://www.nserc.ca/professors_e.asp?nav=profnav&lbi=b3

Discovery Grants (DG)

http://nserc.gc.ca/professors_e.asp?nav=profnav&lbi=a1

Idea to Innovation Program

http://www.nserc.ca/professors_e.asp?nav=profnav&lbi=b4

Industrial Research Chairs (IRC)

http://www.nserc.gc.ca/professors_e.asp?nav=profnav&lbi=c1

Special Research Opportunity (SRO) Program

http://www.nserc.ca/professors_e.asp?nav=profnav&lbi=a4

Intellectual Property Institute of Canada

http://www.ipic.ca/

First Nations, Government of Canada, Provincial Governments for First Nations Resource Development Forums

Cree Mineral Exploration Board

http://www.cmeb.org

Council for the Advancement of Native Development Officers

http://www.edo.ca/home

Indian and Northern Affairs Canada

http://ainc-inac.gc.ca/ps/nap/abo/abo13/5abo13_e.html

Aboriginal Canada Portal

http://www.aboriginalcanada.gc.ca/acp/site.nsf/en/ao20242.html

Ontario:

http://www.nativeaffairs.jus.gov.on.ca/english/news/brochure.html#approach

http://www.nativeaffairs.jus.gov.on.ca/english/economy/grants.htm

Manitoba

http://www.gov.mb.ca/iedm/pdfs/frame_bridging_opps.pdf

Quebec:

http://saa.gouv.qc.ca/plan_site.htm

Mines Ministers Federal-provincial-Territorial Framework for Action

http://www.rncan.gc.ca/mms/mmc/2006/fpt-action-e.pdf

Government of Ontario, Ontario

Budget 2007: Expanding Opportunities for Business in Ontario (backgrounder)- Enhancing Research and Innovation

http://www.ontariobudget.ca/english/bk1.html

Ontario Innovation Tax Credit (OITC) http://www.rev.gov.on.ca/english/credit/oitc/

Ontario Minstry of Research & Innovation http://www.mri.gov.on.ca/

Ontario Ministry of Northern Development and Mines- Mineral Development Strategy

http://www.mndm.gov.on.ca/MNDM/mines/mds/default_e.asp

Ontario Partnership for Innovation and Commercialization

http://www.opic-ontario.ca/

Northern Ontario

Lakehead University Innovation Management Office http://innovations.lakeheadu.ca/index.php

Laurentian University, Intellectual Property Management Office

http://142.51.14.1/Laurentian/Home/Research/Intellectual+Property+Management+Office/

Laurentian University Strategic Research Plan

http://142.51.14.1/Laurentian/Home/Research/Laurentian+University+Strategic+Research+Plan.htm

Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corporation- Emerging Technology Program, First Nation-Community-Corporate-Institutional Collaboration

http://www.mndm.gov.on.ca/nohfc/program_etp_e.asp

http://www.aboriginalaffairs.osaa.gov.on.ca/english/news/news_050124b_5.htm

Ontario Mineral Industry Cluster/Centre for Excellence in Mining Innovation (CEMI), Laurentian University ($150 million, direct and in-kind, five years)

http://www.omicc.ca

CANADA/USA - NORTH AMERICA

Licensing Executives Society (U.S.A. & Canada), Inc.

http://www.usa-canada.les.org/

http://www.lesfoundation.org/activities/

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

U.S. Geological Survey Mineral Resources Program Five-Year Plan, 2006-2010

http://minerals.usgs.gov/plan/2006-2010/2006-2010_plan.html

Policy and Strategy Links - Other, International

WORLD BANK- Oil, Gas, Mining and Chemicals; Mining Policy & Reform

http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/TOPICS/EXTOGMC/0,,contentMDK:20212456~menuPK:463298~pagePK:148956~piPK:216618~theSitePK:336930,00.html

WORLD INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ORGANIZATION (WIPO) http://wipo.org