This month's regions piece focuses on the rapid growth of Canada into the university innovation scene.
Canada is going through something of a golden age, not only in terms of tech transfer, but university innovation as a whole. The country’s tech transfer efforts are fundamentally different from those in the UK or the US. Unlike the US, where the Bayh-Dole Act governs intellectual property (IP) rights in government-funded research, Canada’s universities are more or less left alone to develop their own regulations for tech transfer, similar to how Sweden’s “professor’s privilege” law gives the academic inventor…
