McMaster Innovation Park
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McMaster Innovation Park (MIP) is an innovation and research facility located approximately two kilometres east of McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. McMaster Innovation Park focuses on supporting startups, business, research through providing property management services as well as business aid. Entrepreneurs, firms, researchers, industry partners, business mentors and support facilities are the main customers of the firm. MIP currently houses five buildings: the Atrium@MIP, CanmetMATERIALS, McMaster Automotive Resource Centre (MARC), Biomedical Engineering and Advanced Manufacturing (BEAM) project centre and envisions 10 buildings on site within 10 years with 1,500–1,800 people working full-time.[citation needed]
In early 2005, McMaster University announced its plans to build a research park on property previously used by an appliance manufacturing company. Later in year, the Province of Ontario allocated $10 million in funding to the project and MIP was well into the development stages.[1] Also in 2005, the Federal Government announced that it would be moving the CanmetMATERIALS Technology Laboratory to MIP,[2] making the park a focal point for innovation in technology for the entire country. In October 2009, The Atrium@MIP had its grand opening, meaning the park itself was officially open. By February 2011, the CanmetMATERIALS Building was complete, and the federal government had moved from Ottawa into MIP. Construction of the MARC Building had begun in 2011, and it was completed in fall of 2013. Tenants moved in and started working on their state-of-the-art automotive technology research.
The Atrium@MIP
The Atrium@MIP houses over 114 tenants ranging from start-up companies and accelerators to research labs. It was the first completed multi-tenant building at McMaster Innovation Park.
The Atrium@MIP multi-tenant building is the only remaining office building that was part of Camco's Manufacturing plant, which operated in Hamilton for almost 100 years. MIP has now transformed what once was the site of Westinghouse/Camco Warehouse and Manufacturing plants into a research park. MIP houses several displays showing historical retrospectives of the site and of Westinghouse's activity in Hamilton. The demolition and site reclamation began 2005 and was completed in 2009.
CanmetMATERIALS
The CanmetMATERIALS research centre is dedicated to metals and materials fabrication, processing and evaluation.
CanmetMATERIALS is part of the Department of Natural Resources Canada and relocated from Ottawa to McMaster Innovation Park in 2011 to strategically locate itself at the center of the Canadian manufacturing sector. This building of 167,000 square feet located at 183 Longwood Rd. South houses over 100 staff who undertake over 100 collaborative research and development projects per year with industry, academia and other government departments.[3]
