In North America, there is a place where the Atlantic Ocean enters the continent and melts with the inland seas. In the Maritime Quebec begins the world's longest inland waterway, which is of strategic importance on the international level. This vast land, whose shores are washed by St.Lawrence, embraces the regions of the Bas-saint-Laurent, the Gaspésie, the Côte-Nord, and the Îles-de-la-Madeleine. A total coastline of some 3,000 kilometres!

This territory includes the largest group of francophone and bilingual institutions dedicated to oceans sciences and technologies in America. Aiming to anchor these treasures in an overall economic development strategy, the concept of a "technopole maritime" gradually developed and an organization was finally established under the name Technopole maritime du Québec (TMQ).

Technopole maritime du Québec puts to profit Québec maritime CREATIVITY by mobilizing its greatest strengths: prestigious knowledge institutions, wide-scale research organizations, one-of-a-kind research facilities and laboratories, dynamic and innovative companies and, above all, hundreds of men and women driven by a spirit of daring, at the forefront of technological INNOVATION.

Member of Quebec Research Parks and Technopolis Association (QRPTA)

Founding Member of Ocean Science & Technology Partnership (OSTP)