Office of Partnerships and Innovation and Innovation Park News Archive
Below are stories that captures the history and legacy of the Office of Partnerships and Innovation and Innovation Park at Queen's University. We invite you to browse through the success stories and newsworthy events that have contributed to the current success of Queen's Partnerships and Innovation.
2019
- Programs formerly delivered by Innovation Park now being delivered by Queen's Partnerships and Innovation at Seaway Coworking
- NXNE partners with with home sharing service StayBillety.com to support Unison Benevolent Fund
- Clausehound new Innovation Park partner
- Queen’s University joins ONRamp initiative, led by University of Toronto Entrepreneurship
- Canada's tech hubs fall in startup ecosystem rankings, smaller cities show promise
- Queen’s OPI enables DCL to enjoy spotlight at Collision Conference
- OPI Blog #8: Reflecting on 2018, looking forward to 2019!
- Meet the entrepreneurs who are creatively bringing research to the masses
- OPI Blog #9: The first quarter of 2019 was busy for the OPI!
- OPI Blog #10: Moving and shaking with the OPI in spring and summer 2019!
2018
- Tandem Technical a finalist for Fast Company's World Changing Ideas Awards
- Nine companies in, nine companies up and out!
- Queen’s supported startup goes international
- SPARQ technology boosts smart-grid capability while benefiting Ottawa community housing
- Local Kingston Granola company chosen to expand into a major grocery chain in Ottawa
- DocuPet set to begin pet licensing program across the border
- Costello Prosthetic Warmers an early example of cross-border collaboration
- GrindSpaceXL Graduate FireRein receives FedDev Ontario investment
- Nano research yields sensing breakthrough
- A convergence and mobilization of opportunities to match students with resources and intellectual property at Queen’s
- Advonex International Nominated for Innovation Award at the World Bio Markets Conference in Amsterdam
- SanEcoTec: Challenging North America's water treatment paradigm
- Congratulations to Advonex International for Winning the Bio-Based Chemical Innovation of the Year Award
- A Collaborative Innovation Reaches Across Borders
- Made by humans: A recipe for innovation
- Robot Talks research report and engagement summary now available online
- Startup accelerator GrindSpaceXL now accepting applications for fall 2018 program in Kingston!
- Bioindustrial Innovation Canada and GreenCentre Canada announce private investment in Forward Water Technologies
- Rillea Technologies: Chemical Safety in the Palm of Your Hand
- May 31 2018 is Autonomous Vehicle Day 2018
- Fresh funds for fresh water
- Forward Water Technologies (FWT) locates micro-pilot-unit (MPU) at The Western Sarnia-Lambton Research Park
- SDS RiskAssist™ wins COS Readers' Choice Award
- GrindSpaceXL increases cohort for 2018 program
- Innovation Park partners with HubSpot for Startups
- Research on the brain
- Nine companies in, nine companies up and out!
- A convergence and mobilization of opportunities to match students with resources and intellectual property at Queen’s
- Welcome to the Office of Partnerships and Innovation blog!
- Lafarge hosts major lower carbon fuels research project with academic and NGO partners
- Celebrating a history of resilience
- OPI Blog #2: A great start for the OPI in 2018!
- OPI Blog #3: Keeping up with the OPI
- Molding a New Pellet Design
- OPI Blog #4: OPI facilitated many connections and collaborations in March!
- OPI Blog #5: OPI at OCE Discovery!
- OPI Blog #6: The OPI is as busy as the bees this summer!
- Industry-academic collaboration as an important pathway to the successful market integration of next-generation products
- OPI Blog #7: Activities still hot in the OPI despite the falling temperatures!
2017
- Limestone Analytics: Bringing Queen’s Economic Rigour to the Social Sector
- Latest developments from Advonex International
- Top priorities for Haiti
- Advonex® International Nominated for Most Sustainable Raw Material at New York Society of Cosmetic Chemists Suppliers’ Day 2017
- Catalytic Innovations Wins United Nations Ideas4Change Competition for Sustainable Development
- Queen's Engineering Students Collaborate on Development of Innovative Assistive Device
- Opportunities for growth
- Delivering on the pitch
- BOJAK Manufacturing
- Queen’s unveils renewed nano-tech laboratory
- Entrepreneurial bootcamp seeking fall applicants
- Dr. Steven Liss appointed to Board of International Enviro Innovate Clean-Tech Foundation
- A strategic investment
- Dr. McAuley presents Enviro Innovate’s CO2 capture modelling project results at Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference
- Strong global showing for QICSI team Spectra Plasmonics
- TECTA-PDS named as Ontario Export Awards finalist
- Queen's start-up admitted into Canada's Top Software Technology Accelerator
- Forward Water Technologies Awarded Alberta Innovates-SDTC Joint Funding
- Women talk tech
- Artificial Intelligence Initiative established between The PRS Group and Queen’s University
- Local Kingston “Granola” Company Chosen to Expand into Major Grocery Chains
- BusinessHub Ltda. CEO appointed to Board of International Clean-tech Foundation
- Queen's professor wins national chemical engineering award
- IPG Photonics Announces Acquisition of Laser Depth Dynamics
- KalGene Pharmaceuticals closes financing to support the clinical development of its Alzheimer's Therapeutic
- Six new GrindSpaceXL graduates ready to take their ventures to the next level
- UPstart Venture Challenge gives emerging startup a $30,000 boost
- New clean-tech foundation to financially support the research, development and commercialization of emerging clean technology in Canada
- Thinking big on a small scale
- Tandem Technical to Utilize Enviro Innovate's Clean-Tech Innovation Facilities In Pursuit of the $20M NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE
- New approach to technology transfer
- Cannabis producer growing
- A fresh approach to clean water
- The curtain rises on TECTA-PDS’s latest act
- Queen’s University earns top marks for innovative thinking
- Federal funding for women entrepreneurs in Kingston
- Clean-tech Foundation Completes United States Chapter Formation Dedicated to Educate, Advance, Foster and Support Clean Technology Innovation
- In-depth innovation tour
- 8 High Potential Companies Selected for GrindSpaceXL
- Bikesharing service moves into high gear
- Dr. Steven Liss appointed to Board of International Enviro Innovate Clean-Tech Foundation
- Dr. McAuley presents Enviro Innovate’s CO2 capture modelling project results at Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference
- Strong global showing for QICSI team Spectra Plasmonics
- Forward Water Technologies Awarded Alberta Innovates-SDTC Joint Funding
- Women talk tech
- Artificial Intelligence Initiative established between The PRS Group and Queen’s University
- BusinessHub Ltda. CEO appointed to Board of International Clean-tech Foundation
- Queen's professor wins national chemical engineering award
- KalGene Pharmaceuticals Closes Financing to Support the Clinical Development of its Alzheimer's Therapeutic
- Driving fuel cell technology in cars of the future
- Startup accelerator GrindSpaceXL now accepting applications for Fall 2017 program in Kingston
- New hope for cancer patients
- Erytech Announces Collaboration With Queen's University to Advance It's Product Candidate For Rare Metabolic Disorders
- Entrepreneurial bootcamp seeks fall applicants
- Science on a small scale
- Queen’s student venture victorious in Singapore
- Queen's startup admitted into Canada's Top Software Technology Accelerator
- Cancer research breakthrough ‘promising’
- Uniting Queen's research and entrepreneurship
2016
- Time to accelerate
- A transformative experience
- Community connections
- Tackling one of the world’s grandest challenges
- A passion for harmony
- A better way to fight fire
- Incubating for success
- GrindSpaceXL-K fortuitous pit stop for BRAKERS
- GrindSpaceXL threw Scent Trunk a lifeline to success
- Opening big doors for Buildmetric
- Building a clean-tech future in Kingston
- A4L Raises C$10m Series A Financing And Appoints Don Crawford President And Chief Executive Officer
- Buildmetric on GrindSpaceXL
- Partnering for innovation
- Business jumping for cricket food company
- SaaS Startups Get A Boost As Nine Companies Accepted Into L-Spark’s Second Incubator Cohort
- Innovation ecosystem helps A4L take the stress out of stress testing
- Ontario’s small and medium-sized businesses to benefit from advanced computing initiative
- Premier tours Innovation Park
- Startup accelerator GrindSpaceXL now accepting applications for Fall 2016 program in Kingston
- The sweet smell of success
- Queen's Business Law Clinic collaborates with InnovationXL partners – and a generation of entrepreneurs
- Queen's researcher forms international partnership with Australian firm
- Lafarge continues to follow alternative fuel path
- Exploring the promise of the quantum realm
- Enviro Innovate Teams Up With Carbon XPRIZE to Offer Clean-Tech Innovation Facilities to Participants
- 9 High-potential companies selected for GrindSpaceXL-Kingston
- A4L Announces Research Award from SOSCIP and OCE
- Advonex International to Expand Product Line to Address Broader Markets
- Laser company beaming
- Driving innovation
- Queen's principal lauds successes in innovation
- Partners in Prime: Making Eastern Ontario a hotbed of investor-ready tech companies
- Local groups partner for shot at $20M XPrize
- Cool Electronics: The Product of an Academic/Industry Partnership
- Pre-empting cardiac crises
- Innovation ecosystem helps A4L take the stress out of stress testing
- The future is now
- Changing the way we eat - one cricket at a time
- Crossing borders for collaboration
- Queen’s Business Law Clinic collaborates with InnovationXL partners – and a generation of entrepreneurs
- Queen's researcher forms international partnership with Australian firm
- Powered by collaboration
- A collaboration cemented - Queen's and Lafarge
- Exploring the promise of the quantum realm
- Large investment in small particles
- A perfect partnership
2015
- Designs on a better world
- GrindSpaceXL startup accelerator welcomes fall cohort
- Government Of Canada Invests In Commercialization Centres: Support To Ensure More Ideas Get To Market
- Collaborations, Conversations and a Kitchen
- FireX Protections Startup Spotlight
- Putting Kingston on the Entrepreneurial Map
- A Recipe for Innovation
- Queen's graduates manufacturing success with invention
- Looking to keep local startups local
- New CleanTech Accelerator partnership to commercialize emerging clean technology
- CleanSlate wins $500,000 in international startup competition 43North
- Smart City Technology Gives Canada A Boost Operating On Patented Broadband Platform Over Existing Infrastructure
- Startup secures $25k top investment after pitching to Colorado VC in Ottawa
- Search for 'next big thing' comes to Ottawa
- Kingston company receives $8.1 million grant
- New online school nurtures young students
- Nano-fabrication laboratory removes barriers to prototype development
- GreenCentre Canada offers assistance to growing chemistry companies
- Student startup gets TV treatment
- National Research Council of Canada and KalGene Pharmaceuticals announce license agreement for the development of novel Alzheimer's therapeutics
- Smartphone app connects local businesses, customers
- Funding targets innovation-based programs
- GrindSpaceXL startup accelerator welcomes fall cohort
- Nano-fabrication laboratory removes barriers to prototype development
- New Cleantech Accelerator partnership to commercialize emerging clean technology
- GreenCenttre Canada offers assistance to growing chemistry companies
- SPARQing solar innovation
- Debugging hospital infections
- History of engineering the future
- Making hard decisions easy
- Unraveling mysteries of turbulence
- The recipe for innovation
2014
- Grafoid's expansion proof Innovation Park concept making progress in Kingston
- New process extracts pure hydrogen from contaminant in unrefined oil
- Federal funding fuels project
- Toward a greener chemistry
- Thirty years of micro-nano innovation
- Altranex Corp.: Making Strides in Biofuels and Bio-lubricants
- Mosaic Manufacturing Reveals Incredible Multi-Colored 3D Printing from a Single Extruder
- GrindSpaceXL 2014
- Incubating and accelerating successes
- SPARQ Systems secures $11 million to launch next generation microinverter
- Queen's receives $900,000 to support innovation and entrepreneurship
- Medizone's technology considered for Ebola fight
- PARTEQ moving to Innovation Park
- Grafoid produces MesoGraf,a remarkably light new substance lauded as the strongest material ever gauged
- Company to bring nearly 200 jobs to city
- Kingston Chamber announces new CEO
- NRC and KalGene targeting brain cancers
- US Consult General praises international exchanges
- Eastern Ontario Collaborative Proposal Advances Through CAIP Process
- Altranex One of a Trio of Startups to Win VentureLynx's "Ready For Funding" Competition
- Grafoid Signs Agreement with Altamat to Mass Produce MesoGraf™ 3D Printed Materials
- City pushing its intelligence
- Pilot Program Made Possible Through Collaboration of Kingston Companies
- PARTEQ appoints new President and CEO
- Emerging Hospital Room Disinfection System Should Save Billions
- Kingston one of three Canadian cities to make the Top7 Intelligent Communities of 2014
- Keeping hospitals healthy
- Simulating real-world strategy
2013
- GreenCentre Canada's Philip Jessop & SPARQ's Praveen Jain of those elected to Royal Society of Canada
- Growing Ontario’s Leadership in Safe Drinking Water
- Canadian research produces commercial medical scanner with the world's best spatial resolution
- Examining International Opportunities - GreenCentre Canada moving quickly to increase deal flow and establish brand
- Thales Canada opens Defence and Security centre in Kingston’s Innovation Park
- New Disinfection Technology Expected To Combat Deadly CRE Threat
- Government Of Canada Invests In Commercialization Centres: Support To Ensure More Ideas Get To Market
- SPARQ Systems Inc. completes $2.75M investment round
- Innovation Park opens its doors to international students
- ALD Technology forms basis of new GreenCentre spinoff company
- Pilot project looks at startups
- This is the birth of something new
- The State of Innovation
- Green, clean technology
- Moving transit infrastructure forward
- Cementing a cleaner future
- Queen's partners with industry on green technology
2012
- Kingston one of the world's 21 "Smart Communities"
- Queen’s-RMC Fuel Cell Research Centre leads the charge
- Medizone featured in the Whig Standard
- Experienced Executives Join Switchable Solutions as Market Momentum for Green Solvent Technology Builds
- Plastic recycler Switchable Solutions making progress
- Laser welding technology earns Atherton Entrepreneurship Award
- Government of Canada Continues Investing in Innovation Through Research and Business Partnerships
- Transformix To Manufacture Medizone International’s AsepticSure Technology
- PARTEQ-managed laser innovation earns Ontario Centres of Excellence Martin Walmsley award
- Matariki Network of Universities (MNU) representatives to tour Innovation Park
- Water conservation project underway in Kingston
- Researchers develop new possibilities for solar power
- Launch Lab appoints new CEO
- Mitacs Globalink and Shad Valley students join for a Collaborative Learning Experience at Innovation Park
- Neuroscientist receives grant to advance use of KINARM
- Striking The Right Chord - Queen's And Kingston Collaborate to Build a Better Community
- Foreign Affairs Minister Helps 'START UP' Canadian Entrepreneurialism
- Inventiveness for hire
- Revolutionary green technology will bring significant benefits to southern Ontario’s economy and environment
- AURP Canada Acknowledges the Federal Government for its focus on Commercialization, Innovation and Research
- Robotic innovation gives Canadian Olympians a head start
- Turning bio-mass into gold
- Kingston - Kids, Culture and Community
- Tourism to gain from regional marketing initiatives
- New ally in war on germs
- Location for innovation
- The Governor General's Canadian Leadership Conference visits Innovation Park
- Switchable Solutions Recognized by Corporate Knights as Emerging Cleantech Leader
- Greater Kingston Chamber of Commerce debuts New Logo and Celebrates Accreditation from Canadian Chamber
2011
- Dr. Richard Oleschuk and AB SCIEX partner through the ARC Initiative
- Dr. Victor Snieckus is awarded the 2011 Queen's Prize for Excellence in Research
- Taking on the ‘silent epidemic’
- AsepticSure Proposed for Saudi Arabia to help eliminate MERS-coronavirus
- GreenCentre's 'Switchable Water' technology forms basis of new spinoff company
- Queen’s world-leading ceramic coating process awarded Underwriters Labs certification
- PARTEQ Angel Network makes high-tech opportunities available to local investors and Queen’s alumni
- PARTEQ-founded green chemistry centre stimulates $3.2 million in investment in breakthrough Queen’s technology
- Connect to Innovate brings together industry and academia
- New disinfection technique could revolutionize hospital room cleaning
- Queen’s researcher-innovator recognized by world’s largest engineering association
- Queen’s-developed solar microinverter technology receives North American certification
- Government funding supports partnerships between Queen's researchers and local businesses
- GreenCentre Canada partners with Ontario to foster green innovation by emerging chemical companies
- Innovative green solvent system forms basis of GreenCentres first spinoff company
- Queen's University researchers breakthrough chemical discovery licensed to GreenCentre Canada
- New green recycling plant promises a cleaner second life for plastics
- Queen's Leads development of cutting-edge solar panel testing facility