More aerospace ties between Quebec and India

A $1.7-million research collaboration between academics from India and Concordia University will forge new links for Quebec's aersopace industry, the head of CRIAQ says.
Known by its acronym, the Consortium for Research and Innovation in Aerospace in Quebec groups Quebec industry with universities and research centres. The 5-year-old consortium operates with a mix of private and public funding.
"Our professors are very happy to collaborate with Indian academics," said consortium president and CEO André Bazergui. "They're also keen to attract some good (Indian) students."
The projects will match researchers from Concordia with partners at the Indian Institute of Science, Indian Institute of Technology and Madras and National Aerospace Laboratories.
The projects stem from a trade mission to India led by Economic Development, Innovation and Export Trade Minister Raymond Bachand in November 2006.
Quebec's aerospace industry employs 40,000 people in the province and 80 per cent of the $11.4-billion market is in exports.
By making contacts through academic ventures, Canadian companies will be in a better position to export their products to India's rapidly growing aerospace market, Bazergui said.
The bill for the two research projects geared at improving turbine engines is being shared by the consortium, the provincial government, Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp. and its Indian partners.
Pratt & Whitney, an engine designer and manufacturer, chose the scope of the three-year projects.
24/08/07 Allison Lampert/The Gazette/Montreal Gazette, Canada

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Categories: Foreign Aug 2007