The CPP Investment Board has invested $536 million in Google-backed Verse Innovation, B.C. business owners to benefit from better access to IP resources, the Experimental Lakes Research area gets a five-year boost from Ontario, and more.
Organization: Innovation Asset Collective
Q&A: Innovation Asset Collective co-founder Jim Hinton on winning the race to the patent office
Jim Hinton is a patent lawyer based in Kitchener-Waterloo and the co-founder of the Innovation Asset Collective (IAC), which launched this year with $30 million in federal funding. Research Money spoke to Hinton about the challenges facing tech developers, researchers and policymakers surrounding IP.
The Short Report – Nov. 3, 2021: NREN bolsters internet security with MANRS, a new green tech hub, an open science partnership, and more
Five Ontario post-secondary institutions establish a hub to advance climate action solutions, a global initiative bolsters internet routing, the Tanenbaum Open Science Institute (TOSI) at The Neuro announces a new partnership, and more.
Six-week program launches to educate corporate directors on digital economy
A new program launched by the Council of Canadian Innovators will train corporate directors on governance issues faced by fast-growing technology companies.
Six months on, Canada’s first patent collective is expanding its membership
The Innovation Asset Collective, Canada’s first patent collective, more than doubled its membership in its first six months and has awarded two rounds of grants to its member companies to help them own, access and use intellectual property.
Largest-ever federal investments in intellectual property a “significant step” toward improving Canada’s global competitiveness, IP experts and innovation groups say
Federal Budget 2021 included the government’s largest-ever investments in intellectual property and IP services, underscoring the importance of protecting and leveraging IP for Canada’s economic growth, according to IP experts and heads of innovation groups.
Canada’s first patent collective launched with defensive “war chest” to protect Canadian IP
Canada has launched its first patent collective to help data-driven clean tech companies understand, generate and strategically use intellectual property in scaling up. The Innovation Asset Collective, backed by $30 million in federal funding, includes a defensive “war chest” to help Canadian SMEs defend their patents in an often predatory global IP marketplace.
Ottawa defends innovation performance and initiatives to strengthen ecosystem
Innovation Science and Economic Development Canada, in a detailed response to growing criticisms, defends the federal government’s innovation performance, policies and programs.
The Short Report – Dec. 9, 2020: New funding for pandemic preparedness in LTC homes; a first-of-its-kind biofuel plant for Quebec, and more
Michael Sabia is the new deputy minister of Finance; a consortium of food-based businesses will test new applications for pulse flours; British-based Hg Capital will spend $1.1 billion to assume majority control of Calgary-based Benevity; Canada’s top 50 research universities posted a combined research income of $8 billion in fiscal 2019.
Patent Collective to give Canadian cleantech firms “freedom to operate”
Canada’s new Patent Collective will reduce the risks of patent infringement claims and other intellectual property issues for SMEs.
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