Mr. Speaker, the National Research Council Canada, NRC, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, NSERC, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada's, SSHRC, funding is proactively disclosed and published in the Open Government portal at https://search.open.canada.ca/en/gc/, one month after the end of each quarter of a fiscal year for data from 2017 to the present.
The next proactive disclosure report covering grants paid from October 1, 2022 to December 31, 2022 will be uploaded to Open Government in January 2023.
The NRC did not have grant programs prior to 2017. The collaborative science, technology, and innovation programs, CSTIP, program was established in 2018 and therefore there is no data to report.
For NSERC grants prior to 2017, the data is also available at https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/c1b0f627-8c29-427c-ab73-33968ad9176e.
Prior to April 1, 2017, SSHRC’s funding was proactively disclosed on its website: https://www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca/transparency-transparence/disclosure-divulgation/grants-subventions/grants-subventions-eng.aspx.
NSERC collaborates with national or international agencies, government departments and organizations across the public, private and not-for-profit sectors to deliver joint funding initiatives. Partner organizations on joint initiatives must comply with the following polices as applicable: guidelines for organizations participating in research partnerships, available at https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/NSERC-CRSNG/policies-politiques/orgpartners-orgpartenaires_eng.asp; college and community innovation program partnership guidelines, available at https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/NSERC-CRSNG/policies-politiques/cci_partners-icc_partenaires_eng.asp; alliance grants, role of partner organizations, available at https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Innovate-Innover/alliance-alliance/role_of_partner_organizations-role_des_organismes_partenaires_eng.asp#roleofpartner; and alliance grants, terms and conditions of applying for partner organizations, available at https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/_doc/alliance/TC-Partners_e.pdf.
NSERC’s policy on intellectual property for grants is available at https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/NSERC-CRSNG/Policies-Politiques/ip-pi_eng.asp. Each post-secondary institution has its own policy related to intellectual property that dictates who owns the rights.
SSHRC collaborates with national or international agencies, government departments and organizations across the public, private and not-for-profit sectors to deliver joint funding initiatives: https://www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca/funding-financement/joint_initiatives-initiatives_conjointes-eng.aspx. Partner organizations on joint initiatives must agree to comply with SSHRC’s regulations governing grant applications, available at https://www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca/funding-financement/policies-politiques/grant_regulations-reglements_subventionaires-eng.aspx, and the joint initiative must meet conditions set out in the guidelines for setting up joint initiatives with SSHRC, available at https://www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca/about-au_sujet/partnerships-partenariats/joint_initiatives-initiatives_conjointes-eng.aspx. Joint initiatives funded by SSHRC are proactively disclosed and published by SSHRC on Open Government with the name of the joint initiative included in the publication.
SSHRC’s policy on intellectual property and copyright for grants is available at the following links: https://www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca/funding-financement/policies-politiques/g_copyright-s_droits_auteur-eng.aspx and https://www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca/funding-financement/policies-politiques/f_copyright-b_droits_auteur-eng.aspx.
Though NSERC and SSHRC fund research that may result in patents, the patents are owned by academic institutions or third parties/companies, not NSERC and SSHRC.
At this time, there are no issued patents that resulted from CSTIP grants. Information regarding terms applicable to intellectual property funded by NRC grants and contributions can be found on the NRC’s website: https://nrc.canada.ca/en/research-development/research-collaboration/grant-contribution-funding-collaborators.