The devil is in the details: Contribution Agreements 101

resume note: this is here so you can create a baseline for the work i did. by the time i left i held a portfolio of 24 companies. which included the modular nuclear reactor company terristrial energy, the fusion reactor company General Fusion as well as Dwave the quantum computing company. amusingly to me the worst energy draw in burnaby came from my portfolio. it amounted to $60 mil of govt funding which then leveraged close to 200mil with follow on funding from other funds. i created efficiencies by reducing contracting time, modification time, deploying email in lieu of physical printed reports, starting the standard of email approvals, redesigning the budget template and using analytics to find issues to solve to create more collaboration. this included trying to work with NRC to evergreen the building code because most of our companies were unable to get their first customer in Canada due to procurement rules.

I depression work. i dont know if this is helpful to anyone, but on the off chance that someone reads it, as the unfortunate expert on the topic, i feel responsible for explaining this.

while all the upstanding and moral politicians on the take let point figures at each other, to anyone who wants to fix the system here is what the contribution agreement is, and how it works and why it is bad.

What is a contribution agreement?

A CA, is basically a legislative document that stipulates the terms of engagement between two…