The Manitoba ICT Advantage

Manitoba is home to a dynamic and growing ICT community that offers excellent research and business opportunities. In addition to its central location, the province's strong investement in the future helps ensure that Manitoba continues to provide a rich and fertile ground for innovation and growth – from progressive, leading-edge research and development, to a dependable, sophisticated infrastructure and a skilled and available workforce. Such an environment promises industry growth, increased job opportunities and an excellent quality of life for Manitobans. An investment in world-class research is an investment in Manitoba's future.

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Whether you are looking to advance your technology capabilities, or to start, expand or relocate your technology business, Manitoba is an attractive choice for ICT reserach, development and investment. Our diverse and modern economy offers a host of key advantages to drive your success, including:

• one of the best research and development climates in Canada, with an extensive network of R & D facilities supporting technology and commercialization
• a large pool of students enrolled in a wide variety of leading, ICT-related programming at Manitoba's post-secondary research facilities
• growing clusters of research and business expertise in areas such as bioinformatics, nanotechnology, applied electromagnetics, high performance computing, embedded systems and more
• some of the lowest business costs associated with R & D, software and corporate services, among cities in nine leading industrialized countries (KPMG Study, 2006)
• a productive, well-eductaed ICT workforce available at favourable wage rates
• a sophistictaed telecommunications infrastructure across the province
• a strategic mid-continent location offering key distribution advantages for ICT manufacturers and distributors, as well as timely access to markets coast-to-coast for both travel and communications.

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Technology development and advancements are further fuelled by access to a host of valuable infrastructure assets including:

Virtual Reality Research and Innovation Centre - offers capability to design, simulate and test new products or processes in an interactive 3-D environment

TRnet - a 3,000 km, 10 Gigabit/second experimental network available through TRLabs which provides a testing ground for service providers, device manufacturers, application developers, and telecom vendors to help assist with development of devices, systems and technology

Canadian Advanced Networks for the Advancement of Research in Industry and Education (CANARIE) - through its Manitoba affiliate MRNet, offers members access to a Canada-wide, high-speed optical network delivering unrivaled network capability for broadband research

WestGrid - Manitoba is a partner in WestGrid, one of Canada's seven major high performance computing (HPC) consortia that together are creating a nationwide network of HPC facilities

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