Evaluation of Industry Canada's Contribution to CANARIE

Evaluation Purpose and Methodology The objectives of this evaluation are to address the core issues of relevance and performance in accordance with the Directive on the Evaluation Function. [...] Recipients of federal research funding use CANARIE to access data and facilitate research collaboration, including the Networks of Centres of Excellence (NCEs), the majority of the Centres of Excellence for Commercialization and Research (CECR), Canada Research Chairs, and the Business Led Centres of Excellence (BL-NCEs). [...] CANARIE and the Government of Canada (represented by the Minister of Industry) outline the objectives for CANARIE for the period of April 1, 2012 to March 31, 2015 in the signed 2012 funding agreement: 1 CANARIE has both “members” and “users”. [...] The focus of the third-party evaluation was CANARIE’s progress toward achieving its three objectives, the continued need for and relevance of CANARIE, the alignment of CANARIE with Government priorities and with federal roles and responsibilities, CANARIE’s effectiveness in achieving program objectives and expected outcomes, and the efficiency and economy of CANARIE in addressing its mandate (Appe [...] The evaluation of Industry Canada’s contribution to CANARIE was conducted by the Audit and Evaluation Branch at Industry Canada and will be referred to as “the evaluation” throughout the rest of the document.