- Canada’s Smartest Kitchen hosts the Spring Best Practices Workshop in Charlottetown, PEI.
- Budget 2018 provides $140 million over five years, to increase support for collaborative innovation projects through the College and Community Innovation Program. Impact of Canada’s TACs as key innovation intermediaries highlighted in budget text.
- New funding allows NSERC to launch the sixth TAC competition, the first new TAC competition since 2015.
- Tech-Access Canada delivers TAC to the Future workshop in Winnipeg inviting representatives from member TACs to present operational best practices to an audience of college and cégep attendees interested in applying for the TAC grant.
- Tech-Access Canada registers as a federal not-for-profit corporation based in Ottawa.Â
- Expansion of Interactive Visits program to TACs in Atlantic, Prairies and Pacific regions.
- Technology Access Centre for Livestock Production hosts the Fall Best Practices Workshop in Olds, Alberta.
- All TACs from the first cohort are renewed successfully with a second five-year mandate.

