Trade Diversification Clusters at CTMI & WCN
Example: Canada - Northwestern Europe
The Canada – Northwestern Europe Trade diversification cluster (CNWEU) is the latest addition to over thirty different cluster systems that utilize CTMI, WCN, and CTMI-eVault infrastructure. CNWEU has both private and public access segments.
Cornerstone data for the CNWEU region:
- It has approximately 9.1 million businesses, and a combined GDP of US$10.3 trillion
- Its combined population was about 172 million people in 2025
- There are about 820 chambers of commerce and other business associations in the region
Regional Cluster Update
Private segments and ongoing expansion
- CDN_NWEU cluster local chamber / board of trade data with extra detail
- CDN_NWEU cluster local businesses and universities
- CDN_NWEU cluster business association and small and midsize enterprise (SMEs, survey (ongoing) on needs of and comments on:
- Regular Business Banking, Investors for Capital Expenditures (CapEx)
- Trade barriers and excessive regulatory response burden
- Perceived AI positive and negative impacts on their business
- Access to AI vs IP protection
- Labour market impacts (skill shortage & surplus)
AIASA, UNICOMRD and Custom Markets:
AIASA is an AI based system that integrates satellite imagery with various other data points across each region represented by the 820 chambers and boards of trade in the CDN_NWEU cluster. AIASA is a joint-venture with local universities in the CDN_NWEU space.
AIASA produces an ordinal ranking for CapEx for given industries (mining, controlled environment agriculture / CEA) along 11 measured parameters with detail down to city blocks and/ or county lines within each of the 820 CDN_NWEU cluster regions.
AIASA delivers a powerful tool for CapEx decision-making by the private sector while highlighting potential public infrastructure needs (for example on roads, power, water, connectivity and much more).
UNICOMRD
UNICOMRD utilizes the same CDN_NWEU cluster granularity and is focused on their universities, business incubators and private labs. It utilizes a special version of CTMI-eVault for IP protection, and digital provenance. Since much of university research involves not only interdisciplinary contributions but also researchers and faculty from different universities and labs, CTMI-eVault keeps tabs on who contributed what while also giving a complete record of different research layers and progressions.
UNICOMRD thus is ideal for bringing research across different partners to the commercialization / roll-out stage. Combining UNICOMRD and AIASA with the base business data from the CDN_NWEU cluster, the inherent support for commercialization of IP-protected research means that investor and partner search as well as marketing support for the commercializing project is build-in.
Custom Markets
Custom Markets are another built-in feature of the CDN_NWEU cluster, what with additional information yielded by AIASA. As examples, there is the market for mining products (output and manufactured inputs) and controlled environment agriculture / CEA. While AIASA assist in where to specifically place (or expand) a CEA operation, for example near a power plant or AI data centre to utilize the ‘waste heat’ from such activities as actual ‘free’ input to grow food via CEA, which is inherently better for the environment as well.
A specific CEA market in the CDN_NWEU cluster not only lists exporters of CEA inputs (manufactured goods, including special LED lighting, sensors and pumps), but combined with AIASA and its role as a decision-making tool for CapEx and infrastructure, it can suggest new manufacturing locations for CEA inputs, thus helping to diversify the regional economies.
