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Intellectual Property
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Does
your research have market potential?
The Early Stage Commercialization Fund helps move
Nova Scotia university and community college research
to market.
If you’re a researcher engaged in life or physical
sciences, engineering, computer science or other technology
development with market potential, this opportunity
is for you.
Up to $50,000 in funding available per project.
Funds can be used to assess or validate market potential,
create go-to-market startegies, develop business plans,
develop intellectual property protection strategies,
finish proof of concept development, build prototypes,
and leverage other funds.
 ROUND
SIX SUBMISSIONS : Innovacorp has announced
a new round of funding for the the Early Stage Commercialization
Fund. Competition details and forms will be available
on the Innovacorp website at www.innovacorp.ca.
Deadline for submissions has been extended
to Friday, Feb. 17, 2012 at 5 p.m..
Contact
NSAC's
Industry Liaison Officer to discuss how we can
put together a proposal for this funding. Questions
can also be directed to Shelley Hessian, Innovacorp
at shessian@innovacorp.ca
Full information is found here.
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NSERC Programs to Support Industry/University
Research Collaborations
The Natural Sciences and Engineerign Research Council provides
a variety of programs to support industry/university collaborations.
Look here for their Industry
Partnership programs.
Of particular interest may be the:
1. Engage Grants Program to support
the development of new research partnerships between academic
researchers and companies by supporting short-term research
and development projects that address a company-specific
problem. It is a $25,000 grant. Information is here.
2. Collaborative Research and Development Grants
projects can be at any point in the R&D spectrum. Eligible
collaborations include focused projects with short- to medium-term
objectives, as well as discrete phases in a program of longer-range
research. Funding is available up to $500,000 per year and
duration can range from 1-5 years. Full details are here.
Please contact NSAC's
Industry Liaison Officer for further information
Productivity and Innovation Voucher Program
Nova Scotia Economic and Rural Development has closed the
P&I Voucher Program for 2011.
It is available to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)
to acquire the direct assistance from the research and development
expertise found at Nova Scotia's universities. The programs
aim is to provide help make your business more innovative
and productive. NSAC is one of the service providers. Please
contact NSAC"s
Industry Liaison Officer to discuss how NSAC can help
your company to innovate.
Full details on the program can be found here.
Industry Liaison Officer
The Industry Liaison Officer (ILO) has two key functions:
- liaison with business, industry associations and government
to facilitate applied research on campus; and,
- assisting the university research community in transferring
technologies to industry for commercialization.
a) Industry Liaison
Provides assistance to researchers and to industry, governments,
and other sectors of society in identifying research opportunities
and negotiating research contracts and industrial grants.
We also encourage interaction with the industrial and public
sectors and communicates contract and grant research opportunities
to University researchers. It is here to help you the researcher,
or business representative, or other to access research opportunities
at the university.
b) Technology Transfer
The ILO facilitates the identification and protection of commercially
significant technologies arising from the academic research
activities at the NSAC. It assists in educating University
staff and students in understanding issues associated with
the nature and means of protecting intellectual property (IP).
It actively protects IP through patents, copyright, and trademarks
as well as pursues the licensing of intellectual property
for commercial enterprise development.
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