TRLabs is Canada's largest information and communications technology (ICT) research consortium. TRLabs creates innovative technologies and trains students to enhance ICT expertise and improve Canada's global competitiveness. Five labs across the Prairie Provinces employ university professors, graduate students, industrial partners, and staff researchers. The TRLabs consortium includes more than 50 partners-the majority consist of large telecommunications equipment manufacturers and telephone carriers, and small and medium-sized enterprises.

Alberta Ingenuity supports the highest quality basic and applied research in science and engineering disciplines through its awards programs. These programs are developed in conjunction with the international Science and Engineering Advisory Council and the Alberta research community to maintain the competitiveness of Alberta's universities, colleges and technical institutes and to help recruit bright new researchers and encourage scientific leaders to stay in the province.

The NRC Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC-IRAP) provides a range of both technical and business oriented advisory services along with potential financial support to growth-oriented Canadian small - and medium-sized enterprises. The program is delivered by an extensive integrated network of 260 professionals in 100 communities across the country. Working directly with these clients, NRC-IRAP supports innovative research and development and commercialization of new products and services.

Cybera is a non-profit organization with a mandate to provide provincial leadership in integrating, leveraging and sustaining investments in Cyberinfrastructure technologies in Alberta. Cybera maintains primary offices and staff at the University of Calgary and the University of Alberta.