Thunder Bay is building its own bio-economic base with a research centre at Lakehead University.
A Centre for Research and Innovation in the Bio-Economy, known as CRIBE, was the recommendation of a special task force to determine how $25 million in provincial funding would be best spent.
The 15-page report was accepted by Provincial Minister of Research and Innovation John Wilkinson on Dec. 15. The centre will be the anchor of the city's bio-economy research and would focus on commercializing new environmentally-friendly fuels, composites and chemicals.
The CRIBE offices would be located within a larger proposed innovation centre on the university campus called NORD 21.
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