Lab-to-Market
Turn Canada's world-class research into companies that stay. The IP is here; the commercialization muscle is not.
Category
Research
Related Companies
4
Status
Open
Canada is consistently top-tier in research output and consistently mediocre at turning it into enduring companies. The discoveries get made in Toronto, Montréal, and Waterloo, then the founders, the patents, and the equity migrate south. This is the meta-frontier: tooling and firms that shorten the path from a lab bench or a published paper to a venture-backed company headquartered in Canada — tech transfer that works, spinout infrastructure, and the capital and talent to keep the value chain domestic.
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