October 7, 2005 Source: University of Ottawa:
http://www.media.uottawa.ca/mediaroom/news_details-e.php?nid=700 Brzustowski named first RBC Professor at the University of Ottawa On October 3, 2005 Tom Brzustowski (Bruss-TOFF-ski), former President of NSERC, was named the first Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) Financial Group Professor in the Commercialization of Innovation thanks to a $750,000 investment from RBC Financial group. The professorship, a joint initiative between RBC Financial Group and the University of Ottawa, focuses on commercialization of science- and technology-based innovation at the University's School of Management. The position offers the opportunity to conduct research and teach, as well as implementing an action agenda to try and disseminate new and existing knowledge about innovation and commercialization into the financial community. "To assure sustainable Canadian prosperity for the future, we must develop an enhanced capacity to add value and create wealth in all sectors of the economy, from natural resources to high-tech. Meeting that challenge will require the active partnership of business, governments, and the academic sector," says Prof. Brzustowski. "I think the RBC Chair in the Commercialization of Innovation at the University of Ottawa is very well positioned to contribute to that effort through research, teaching, communication and acting to bring the partners together." Tom Brzustowski was appointed President of NSERC in October 1995, and reappointed in 2000. An engineer, he graduated with a B.A.Sc. in Engineering Physics from the University of Toronto in 1958, and a Ph.D. in Aeronautical Engineering from Princeton in 1963. He was a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Waterloo from 1962 to 1987. He served as Chair of Mechanical Engineering from 1967 to 1970 and as Vice-President, Academic of the University from 1975 to 1987. After that he served as deputy minister in the Government of Ontario from 1987 to 1995, first in the Ministry of Colleges and Universities, and later in the Premier's Council.
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