New initiative to help entrepreneurs better access and leverage intellectual property

On August 1, the University of Waterloo welcomed the Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development, Navdeep Bains, for a special announcement on a new initiative to help entrepreneurs better access and leverage IP. The announcement was followed by a panel discussion on the importance of IP to Canadian businesses that included Minister Bains, Jay Shah, director of Velocity, Jason Hynes, a patent lawyer with Bereskin & Parr LLP, and Myra Tawfik, professor of IP commercialization and strategy at the University of Windsor.