For Universities

Why use GreenCentre Canada?

Typically, discoveries arising from university research are at a very early stage of development and universities lack the resources needed to develop them to the point that they can be put into practice by industry. With no real promise of success, industry is reluctant to assume the considerable costs, and risks, associated with advancing your discovery. Similarly, no one university technology transfer organization has the infrastructure needed to support the early development of chemistry and materials technologies.

GreenCentre Canada provides you with the facilities and resources needed to develop, scale-up, test, and eliminate any risks with your invention. An important part of this process is industry input. At GreenCentre, our commercialization staff work side by side with industry to assess how well your technology meets industry needs. This increases the chances that your technology will be adopted by industry and offers prospects for further research collaborations.

We invite Green Chemistry researchers at Canadian universities and other research institutes to take advantage of the resources offered by GreenCentre, including an opportunity to have your work evaluated for its commercial potential. To open a discussion, you should contact your university’s technology transfer office.

All technologies will go through a 90-day non exclusive screening process. Some technologies will be declined for further consideration at this point if seen to be clearly outside the Centre’s mandate. The Centre will make every effort to provide reasons for the decision and any recommendations that might be appropriate.

Many considerations come into play when deciding how best to invest the commercialization resources of GreenCentre Canada. We project a rate of commercialization of early-stage technologies similar to that of the industrial sector where about ten per cent of discoveries are developed and about ten per cent of those reach the market.