Spotlighting UBC researchers throughout their innovation journeys.
Partnership Stories
Stories
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October 5, 2026Venture Founder alumni spotlight: Barry, the AI agent giving evenings back to field service-based business owners
In this Venture Founder alumni spotlight, read about Barry Co-founders Torrin Pataki and Griffin Velichko, what brought them to entrepreneurship, the field services admin problem that Barry is solving, and where they're headed in the next 12 months.
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October 5, 2026UBC researcher built the country’s only national dataset to shape Canadian road safety policies
A UBC emergency physician has developed Canada’s only national database providing insight into impaired driving using leftover hospital blood samples. Across 15 trauma centers, a decade of government partnerships has produced evidence to help shape road safety law across country.
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October 5, 2026Staff Spotlight: Sandi Swa, Technology Transfer Manager
In this Inventions and Licensing team spotlight, read all about Sandi Swa's expertise in immunology, questions we ask when assessing the commercial potential of a new invention, and the UBC AVENGERS program Sandi is supporting.
In the News
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September 23, 2026Canada invests $67 million in dual-use life sciences research
Entrepreneurship & Ventures | BC’s Avivo Biomedical Inc. is receiving just shy of $11M toward a $34M project advancing tech for blood transfusion and organ transplantation.
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September 23, 2026Scaling Canadian innovation for economic growth
An op-ed published by Benoit-Antoine Bacon and Peter Zandstra arguing that Canada's innovation challenge isn't a shortage of discoveries or startups—it's our ongoing challenges in scaling domestic companies to global competitiveness.
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September 18, 2026300 entreprises dérivées des centres de recherche de l’UBC
Inventions & Licensing | Benoit-Antoine Bacon speaks with Radio-Canada's Phare Ouest about the work behind the 300 UBC spin-offs milestone.
