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In 2017, the University of Guelph made a commitment to support academic entrepreneurship and formed a New Venture Creation team. Housed within the Research Innovation Office, these specialists support researchers who see commercial potential in their research. Offering incubation, mentorship and market research support, this group has helped researcher led teams to validate the market viability of their inventions and to create start-up companies to take innovative research-based products and services to market.

A lot of time and effort has gone into your research, but estimates suggest that only half of academic papers will only be read by yourself and your editors. Not the reach you were hoping to have? Wanting to see your research used to make a difference in the world? You need a knowledge mobilization (KMb) plan.

Sure, great, so…. what exactly is knowledge mobilization?

Have your say! The Research Innovation Office’s New Venture Creation team needs faculty insights to help us create the services and programs U of G researchers need to have more impact!  

Created by a team of scientists at the Universtiy of Guelph, Precision Biomonitoring offers point-of-need DNA tools and services. 

The July 9, 2020 article published by The Toronto Star highlights Precision Biomonitoring's recent approval by Health Canada to sell a mobile Covid-19 test kit (made by U.S. manufacturer Biomeme).

Governments and companies need timely, credible information that can help them make good decisions - this is especially important right now, when we are facing unprecedented challenges to our food systems due to COVID-19.

Working with start-ups and academic entrepreneurs is a part of the day-to-day work that our New Venture Creation team performs. Their focus is on helping bring products and services based in UofG research to market through programming and mentorship support. While doing this work, they field a lot of questions from business founders who need resources that are readily available in the larger Guelph innovation and start-up ecosystem.

Motif will collaborate with Professor Alejandro Marangoni, a world leader in food and lipid science, and the University of Guelph to solve one of the category's biggest challenges

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During the broadcast of the 2020 Gryphon’s LAAIR Pitch Competition, Dr. David Hobson, Manager, Technology Transfer & Entrepreneurship at the Research Innovation Office, announced the 2020 recipients of the Gryphon’s LAAIR Grants, who will receive a total of $420,000 in funding.

On May 27, 2020 five corporations who have roots in the U of G research community went head-to-head to win a total of $20,000 in prizes that can be used to help grow their businesses. The broadcast introduced U of G innovators who are putting knowledge into action in ways that will have an impact on the Ontario economy today and tomorrow, while facing extraordinary challenges presented by Covid-19. 

As the Research Innovation Office has pivoted to deliver more of our services and programs using online platforms, we’ve started to create more digital content than ever before. The same is true for many of U of G’s individual researchers and institutes such as Food from Thought and the Arrell Food Institute.