Waterloo panellists at the Canadian Science Policy Conference explore where to focus startup support to accelerate industrial productivity
Publisher: University of Waterloo
As more high potential startups grow out of university research, it’s critical to understand how government, industry and academia can align to accelerate commercialization.
📸 Naomi Grosman
A panel discussion at the Canadian Science Policy Conference was held last month, with industry experts in the Canadian startup ecosystem. Panellists included Bettina Hamelin, president and CEO of Ontario Genomics, Farnoud Kazemzadeh, co-founder and VP Engineering at Vital Bio, Maura Campbell, president and CEO of Ontario Bioscience Innovation Organization (OBIO), and Akash Vaswani, general partner at Velocity Fund, where they explored how to increase the likelihood for Canadian startups to succeed in order to boost Canada’s industrial productivity.
Panel moderator Adrien Côté, executive director at Velocity, said that year-over-year, Canada is becoming less competitive amongst global indices related to productivity according to multiple studies.