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At 10:28pm on September 2, 2008, Jerome Kashetsky said…: OTTAWA, September 2, 2008 -- The Honourable Jim Prentice, Minister of Industry, today accepted recommendations made by the Science, Technology and Innovation Council (STIC) on sub-priorities within the four research priority areas announced in the Government of Canada's 2007 Science and Technology (S&T) Strategy.

Canada's 2007 S&T Strategy identified four research priorities in areas where Canada can leverage research strengths to achieve a competitive advantage: environmental science and technologies; natural resources and energy; health and related life sciences and technologies; and information and communications technologies. To give definition to these four priority areas, STIC identified sub-priorities in areas of strategic importance to Canada. The sub-priorities recommended by STIC will assist research agencies in the design and implementation of research support programs in the following important areas:

S&T priority: Environmental science and technologies

Sub-priorities: Water (health, energy, security); cleaner methods of extracting, processing and using hydrocarbon fuels, including reduced consumption of these fuels

S&T priority: Natural resources and energy

Sub-priorities: Energy production in the oil sands; Arctic (resource production, climate change adaptation, monitoring); biofuels, fuel cells and nuclear energy

S&T priority: Health and related life sciences and technologies

Sub-priorities: Regenerative medicine; neuroscience; health in an aging population; biomedical engineering and medical technologies

S&T priority: Information and communications technologies

Sub-priorities: New Media, animation and games; wireless networks and services; broadband networks; telecom equipment