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For Researchers

Intellectual Property and Tech Transfer

ORPI comprises professional staff who are dedicated to supporting researchers focused on commercial applications of their research and contributing to the University’s innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystem. Supports are provided to help you commercialize and license your research, while protecting your intellectual property.


The Technology Transfer Process is a series of steps, which outline the process of turning your idea into an impactful product that creates revenue while adding social and/or environmental value to the world. ORPI provides support throughout this process, with an emphasis on the invention disclosure, evaluation, protection as well as  marketing & licensing steps.

 

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Commercialization Services
ORPI provides a number of commercialization services to help support you along your entrepreneurial journey. Such services include providing educational entrepreneurial tools, developing strategic external partnerships, pathfinding services within the local innovation ecosystem, pathfinding funding opportunities (non-dilutive and dilutive) and acting as  a liaison with industry and the public sector.
  • Pre-Incubation Programming (co-management services, GATE Startup Bootcamp, etc.)
  • Accelerator Partners (e.g., Cultivator, Startup TNT, Ag-West Bio)
  • Ecosystem Pathfinding (e.g., Ecosystem maps or searchable database)
  • Industry Liaison – within private and public sectors, as well as tech ecosystem

Funding Sources for Partnerships

Funding sources for partnerships can be non-dilutuve or dilituve in nature.

Non-dilutive funds
Non-dilutive funds refer to any capital an entrepreneur receives that does not require them to give up any ownership of their technology and/or company. Such funds generally come in the form of grants, vouchers, competitions as well as government funding and loans. They are most often applicable at earlier stages of a business’s development, when said business is aiming to advance a technology and prepare to enter the market or is in early growth stages.
Non-dilutive Funding Sources
Dilutive Funding
Dilutive Funding generally, comes from private equity sources, such as Venture Capital and Angel Investors. This type of funding requires an entrepreneur to relinquish a portion of ownership and control of their company to the investor to secure capital, which also means they will earn fewer future profits. Generally, such funding should not be accessed until all non-dilutive funding sources are exhausted. Dilutive funding is generally accessed when capital is needed for significant growth acceleration in an established business, when such growth cannot be funded through internal resources alone.

ORPI is here to help researchers pathfind through a multitude of non-dilutive investment sources. There are many different types of funders, who operate in different markets, industries and work with companies at different stages of growth. ORPI staff have experience dealing with non-dilutive funding sources and have relationships with local investors Conexus Venture Capital and Emmertech, as well as many others across Canada and beyond.

For Companies

ORPI SUCCESS STORIES

ORPI is your portal for industry engagement and access to the university’s impressive and evolving intellectual property portfolio. We work with companies of all sizes, from different industries and countries, to find ideal innovations and research partners to meet their needs.

The University of Regina works closely with public funding agencies such as NSERC, NRCan, and Mitacs, and has the ability to lever industry sponsorships with matching grants and tax credits to support applied research and commercialization projects. ORPI offers administrative support to turn early-stage discoveries into market ready technologies, including sponsored contract R&D and patent licensing.

The ORPI team can help build connections to leading researchers, support fundraising and risk management, and offer fair and equitable agreements to partners. Please contact us if you’re interested in exploring work with a suitable university researcher, or may want to access licensing opportunities.

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ORPI SUCCESS STORIES

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