How We Work With Universities

Academic researchers are a major source of innovations that can transform society and dramatically improve our quality of life. But these breakthroughs are usually embryonic in nature and require vast resources to bring them to the stage that they become useful to industry and society.  Many of these early stage technologies are simply overlooked as industry lacks the resources to further develop them or are reluctant to assume the significant commercialization risk.  GreenCentre Canada now offers our academic researchers an avenue for their work to be evaluated and assessed for its commercialization potential.

GreenCentre Services include:

• Technology review and due diligence
• Intellectual property protection
• Market analysis and assessment of value to industry 
• Development of product and/or process to address industry needs
• Application development
• Scale-up synthesis and customer sample preparation
• Development of business plan
• Creation of sales and marketing channels

Benefits to academic institutions/inventors include:

• More opportunity for outreach and collaboration with industry
• Greater access to feedback from industry about their needs
• Acceleration of  the commercialization of promising Green Chemistry innovations
• Enhanced profile for researchers/universities and enhanced awareness of the value of basic research
• More tangible evidence of the contributions made by universities to society
• Rapid investment in proof-of-principle projects to confirm commercialization potential

GreenCentre Terms of Engagement

Terms of engagement

Process and Criteria

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