Vice-President Research & Innovation Robert Haché announces the development of a new suite of commercialization and industry liaison services under the umbrella of Innovation York. Commercialization and industry liaison services at York University in the past have been delivered via two units: the Intellectual Property & Research Agreements unit (IPRA) within the Office of Research Services […]
IP Osgoode has partnered with Ontario Centres of Excellence’s (OCE) Centre for Commercialization of Research (CCR) to create a unique intellectual property (IP) clinical program that will match Osgoode law students with OCE-supported companies to help them secure and protect their IP en route to commercial success. IP Osgoode, Osgoode Hall Law School’s Intellectual Property & Technology […]
York University has become the latest member of MaRS Innovation, the commercialization agent for many leading Toronto-based universities, hospitals and research institutes. “York has become one of Canada’s fastest-growing centres for research and innovation,” said Stan Shapson (right), vice-president research & innovation at York University. “We typically get 10 to 20 discovery disclosures a year. […]
If collaboration across industry, academic and public sectors is key to bridging Canada’s innovation gap, how do you make university research more accessible to the people and organizations who need this expertise? York University has answered this challenge by launching Innovation York (IY). Strategically located in York Region, IY is the public face and conduit […]
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Discovery 2010, the Ontario Centre of Excellence’s annual conference to showcase and celebrate Ontario innovation, is one of Ontario’s flagship programs that supports and promotes research at Ontario’s universities, colleges, research institutions and companies. Held May 17 and 18, Discovery 2010 was billed as “Where next Happens” for Clean Tech, Health Tech, High Tech and […]
Have you ever wanted to have dinner with a scientist? Ask questions about Canada’s laser radar on NASA’s 2007 Phoenix mission to Mars, the role of human genomes in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer, the consequences of dwindling fossil fuels or perhaps how biochemical pathways affect obesity? The Royal Canadian Institute (RCI) for the […]
Stan Shapson, York University’s vice-president research & innovation, recently gave a talk at a conference hosted by IP Osgoode and the Hennick Centre for Business and Law on developing strong public/private sector collaborations to create innovation. With the challenge of a changing external context for research in Canada — both a shifting economic and social […]