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Startups & Economic Development

A Sustainable Startup Model for Canada

At the end of my last post on the gaps in the R,D,E chain, I talked a bit about why people with the development skill set are attractive to large companies, but ultimately don’t fit in with these companies’ emphasis on engineering (e.g. rigour, discipline, process). Startups are by...

January 17, 2012July 6, 2017

IP & Tech Transfer

Gaps in the Research, Development, and Engineering Chain

I talk a lot about bridging the ‘technology transfer gap’, but there is more than one place where technologies fall to their doom in the development of a new product. When you define each stage in the process (Research, Development and Engineering) you start to see that there are...

January 10, 2012July 5, 2017

Startups & Economic Development

A case for Startup Visas

Recently there’s been a lot of discussion in both Canada and the US about an initiative called Startup Visa. The core of the initiative is a change to immigration policy that would allow entrepreneurs to be classified as a labour class and give them the ability to enter the...

November 8, 2011July 7, 2017

Entrepreneurship , Tech Entrepreneurship

Invention, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship: Different processes, different people

Invention, innovation, and entrepreneurship are words frequently thrown around by politicians, theorists, and entrepreneurs alike to generally describe the act of bringing a product or idea into the world. While easy to confuse, each concept is distinct and requires specific skills. When it’s time to choose the right...

October 25, 2011July 7, 2017

IP & Tech Transfer

Disrupting the University Tech Transfer Space

At TandemLaunch, we invest in multi-media concepts but ultimately we are trying to disrupt the university technology transfer space. I wrote about the benefits of improving this highly inefficient $50billion+ market earlier. It’s big; it’s inefficient; and we believe that it is ripe for disruption. Technology transfer is a...

August 17, 2011July 7, 2017

Startups & Economic Development

Why We Do What We Do

For the last few months I have shared stories and opinions about university entrepreneurship. I figure it’s time to talk about the “why” rather than the “how”. Specifically, why do we try so hard to bring university technology into the world? First same background: I spent my career commercialising...

June 21, 2011July 10, 2017

Venture Capital

Confidentiality and Investors

“I have a world-changing, disruptive idea in the multi-media space! Can you sign an NDA so that I can tell you more?” I get variants of this every week. And it never works. Non-disclosure agreements (NDA) are legal documents that require effort to review and create long term liability....

June 14, 2011July 10, 2017

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