Toronto Region Research Alliance

The Toronto Region Research Alliance (TRRA) is a regional economic development organization promoting increased investment in research and innovation to further economic prosperity. TRRA focuses on retaining and growing foreign investment into regional organizations; attracting innovative, research-intensive foreign companies to locate here; promoting enhanced research intensity among regional businesses; and advancing initiatives to strengthen research and innovation capacity. TRRA is a public-private partnership supported by the governments of Ontario and Canada, and a wide range of regional stakeholders from the private sector, universities, colleges, and research hospitals. TRRA defines the Toronto Region based on the location of key innovation clusters in a broad geographic area anchored by the City of Toronto, and includes the surrounding regions of Durham, Guelph, Halton, Hamilton, Peel, York, Waterloo and Wellington.