Business View Magazine | March 2018

108 deepwater port,a regional airport,and two business parks,”Shawoffers.“One business park is fully serviced by the City,and is there to provide shovel-readytype development in attracting newbusinesses.”The second business park is 214 acres and contains the 80-acre, Western Sarnia-Lambton Research Park,whichwas established in 2003 as a joint initiative with the County of Lambton,the Cityof Sarnia,and the Universityof Western Ontario (nowWestern University).It is Cana- da’s largest clean-tech incubator for the commercial- ization of large-scale industrial technologies,from lab tomarket.TheWestern Research Parks were the 2016 recipient of theOutstanding Research ParkAward from theAssociation of UniversityResearch Parks.From more than 700 international Research Parks,theWest- ern Research Parks were selected for their excellence in creating and supportinghigh-technology economic development,enhancing student learning opportuni- ties and job creation. The Park is also the location of Bioindustrial Innova- tion Canada (BIC),a nationally focused,not-for-profit organization that acts as a hub for commercialization of sustainable chemistryand bio-based innovation. BIC,alongwith the Sarnia Lambton EconomicPart- nership (SLEP) has been a catalyst in developing the Biobased Cluster in Sarnia,which is nowbecoming globally recognized as the leading cluster in bio-based chemicals and clean technology. SARNIA, ONTARIO