Private-sector innovation: investing in universities and colleges makes good business sense

Continuing to support a world-class, comprehensive, high-performance research environment—one that is open to companies pursuing their own knowledge needs—is certainly a key ingredient in creating a hotbed of commercialization in Canada.

When the University of British Columbia licensed a novel drug technology to a leading global provider of healthcare products at the end of last year, it highlighted the Centre for Drug Research and Development's role in closing the gap between discovery research and commercial opportunity in Cana...

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