Canadian Innovation Centre
The Canadian Innovation Centre is to ideas as a birthing center is to babies. The Canadian Innovation Centre (CIC) provides inventors and innovative companies with such services as market research and concept appraisal. CIC has worked with more then 20,000 Canadian inventors and innovating companies. The center has assesed over 13,000 new product ideas and successfully guided thousands of products to the market. The CIC is an affiliate of the University of Waterloo and grew out of the university's Inventor's Assistance Program which began in 1976.
The Centre helps individual inventors and entrepreneurs crystallize their ideas and commercialize the resulting products. It also works with innovations coming out of existing enterprises.The Canadian Innovation Centre has an important role in deploying Canada's innovation strategy. The Centre plans to help Canadian companies exploit new technologies to generate wealth and sustain Canada's competitiveness.
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Executives
Chairman
Ted Cross
President
Andrew Maxwell