CRIM: a new model for technology development and technology transfer

Given the increasing pressures on the private sector to be competitive in the world marketplace, governments and industry have come to understand the importance of encouraging research which directly addresses industrial problems. To this end, new organisations have appeared which directly address technology development and technology transfer. Le Centre de recherche informatique de Montreal (CRIM) is one such organisation, created in 1985 to respond to the needs expressed by corporations, universities, and the and the Quebec government to pool resources and together perform R&D activities in certain key areas of information technologies. The authors attempt to present not just CRIM but also its context, by describing some of the complementary organisations in Canada and in Quebec