Acton White Associates Inc. provides
economic consulting services to government organizations, the
private sector including industry associations and foundations and
the education sector. Kenneth White, Principal Consultant and
President has extensive experience in preparing industry,
environment and technology-related studies in a multi-stakeholder
setting involving public, private and non-government partnerships
and collaborative arrangements. Kenneth has a Bachelors and a
Masters degree in economics as well as numerous business and
professional courses and French language training. Kenneth has been
successfully operating his consultancy practice for the past 15
years.
Our mission is conducting socio-economic studies involving high
technology industries and preparing medium and longer-term
forecasts on commercialization prospects for emerging and promising
sectors of the economy and developing possible and probable
scenarios involving future uncertainties, critical drivers and
events and econometric modeling.
Acton White Associates Inc. has conducted numerous industry
analyses for clients in Industry Canada, the National Research
Canada, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Human Resources and Skills
Development Canada, Social Development Canada, Office of the
National Science Advisor (PCO), Statistics Canada, Province of
Newfoundland and Labrador, the National Seafood Sector Council, and
Supply Chain and Logistics Canada (SCL). Examples of these projects
include the Green Economy in British Columbia (with Globe
Advisors), Metrology Cost Benefit Analysis, Technology Cluster
Evaluations, Digital Document Imaging, Ocean and Marine Technology
Roadmap, Chemical and Environmental Technologies, Supply Chain and
Logistics Management, APEC Foresight Future Fuels Technology
Roadmap and Ocean Technologies in British Columbia.
We work with professional associates that are located in British
Columbia, Ontario and Newfoundland and Labrador. Our associates
include economists and statisticians, engineers, social scientists
and business executives.