Transatlantic Innovation Centre (TIC)

With ACT Innovation Hub’s support, the NATO Association of Canada founded the Transatlantic Innovation Centre (TIC) to strengthen NATO member and partner nations through open innovation.

As the commercial sector overtakes government labs and legacy defence suppliers in innovation pace, defence establishments are increasingly looking to source solutions from non-traditional suppliers including startups, SMEs, Big Tech and academia.

In addition to harnessing their extended national defence innovation base, countries are also looking for innovative solutions beyond their borders hence the push by the NATO ACT Innovation Hub to create an international innovation ecosystem comprising Alliance member and partner nations.

In partnership with the different public and private stakeholders constituting the national innovation base, the TIC looks to further integrate Canada into a NATO-wide innovation ecosystem.

It aims to do so by connecting the different national innovation ecosystems through recurring hackathons where teams from various Alliance members and partners compete to propose solutions to address current and future security challenges.

In support of this innovation matchmaking, the TIC recognizes the need to create a B2B forum that fosters cooperation between legacy and new defence firms so that both actors can leverage their respective advantages. As part of its mission of connecting the various innovation ecosystems, the TIC also aims to shorten the feedback loop between this extended innovation base and the defence policy community by creating a B2G platform where NATO member and partner nations’ government agencies discuss with suppliers the future of warfare and define operational requirements around which hackathons will be designed.


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  • The mission of NATO Association of Canada is to promote peace, prosperity, and security through knowledge and understanding of the importance of NATO.

    We strive to educate and engage Canadians about NATO and NATO’s goal of peace, prosperity and security. NATO Association of Canada ensures that we have an informed citizenry able to contribute to discussions about Canada’s role on the world stage.

    As a leading member of the Atlantic Treaty Association (ATA), NATO Association of Canada has strong and enduring ties with sister organizations in many of the alliance countries, as well as members of NATO’s “Partnership for Peace” and “Mediterranean Dialogue” programmes. The NAOC has had a leading role in the recent transformation and modernization of the ATA, and helped to create and develop the Youth Atlantic Treaty Association (YATA).

    The NAOC has strong ties with the Government of Canada including Global Affairs Canada and the Department of National Defence. We are constantly working to create and maintain relationships with international organizations such as the World Bank Group, the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development, NATO Headquarters, the International Criminal Court, and other prominent international NGOs and think tanks.

     

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