With the adoption of a national innovation program can talk about the broader process of "regionalization" of science, as one of the main innovation is the development of scientific and technological capacity in selected Canadian communities and settlements (community level). In the same province of Alberta in 1999 was created a large Ministersto for Innovation and Science (Ministry of Innovation and Science), which brought together more than a dozen different units in government departments and provincial initsirovalo number of programs to support innovatsionnots activities in the province.