Small to Medium-sized Enterprises | Queen's Partnerships and Innovation

An Introduction to Business Insurance

An Introduction to Business Insurance hosted by Scott Lee, CAIB,RIB, Commercial Account Executive with McDougall Insurance

Advancing the evolving landscape of healthcare, research and economic development

Apr 18, 2024

Hosted by Invest Kingston and Queen’s University, the third annual Kingston-Syracuse Pathway Conference was held on April 9th at the Delta Hotel in downtown Kingston.

A view of Queen's Grant Hall from street level

QPI supported over 200 startups to attract over $29 million in revenues

Apr 17, 2024

Queen’s Partnerships and Innovation (QPI) supported the creation of 209 new patents and intellectual property assets and saw 136 new products, services or processes developed through the first phase of FedDev Ontario project

An image of a IOP contact lens prototype

With new partners and recent investment, LenSense hopes to start clinical trials

Apr 01, 2024

LenSense is working to develop a more efficient glaucoma monitoring device.

Two Queen’s spin-off companies participate in annual OBIO Investment Summit

Mar 04, 2024

For the third year, Queen’s spinoff companies have participated in the Ontario Bioscience Innovation Organization (OBIO®) Investment Summit and Early Technology Showcase in Toronto this past February.

Ingenuity Labs wants to help us prepare for a future where robotics and AI are everywhere

Nov 14, 2023

Ingenuity Labs can offer researchers everything from industrial scale drones to a twelve-camera, motion-picture capture system, useful both for developing autonomous vehicles or creating a fantastic virtual reality environment for the movies or video games.

WE-CAN Community Learning to Thrive Together

Nov 13, 2023

On October 26th, members of the WE-CAN community gathered at Seaway Coworking for a one-of-a-kind WE-CAN Thrive event.

Queen’s-connected women leaders participate in inspirational panel discussion

Nov 09, 2023

Four Queen’s- and Kingston-connected panelists recently participated in the OBIO® "Networking with Inspirational Women in Science" event

QPI’s Senior Director joins judging panel for i2I Venture Pitch Competition

Oct 24, 2023

Queen’s University QPI team was invited to the Chang Institute at SFU and the Beedie School of Business hosted the annual i2I Venture Pitch Competition

Jim Banting (Assistant Vice-Principal, Partnerships and Innovation), Mark Daymond (Professor in Mechanical and Materials Engineering and the Canada Research Chair in Mechanics of Materials), Nancy Ross (Vice-Principal Research), David Harris (President and CEO, Kinectrics), and Sriram Suryanarayan (Director of Innovation, Kinectrics).

Queen's and Kinectrics partner to explore nuclear energy innovation

Aug 15, 2023

Queen’s and nuclear industry leader Kinectrics Inc. have entered a five-year Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) aimed at exploring and pursuing collaborative opportunities in research, development, education, recruitment, and training within the nuclear energy sector.

Wings participants listening to workshop presenter, Andrew Jackson

The Wings Story: 2019-2023, filling in the right-hand side of the canvas

Aug 14, 2023

After four years helping entrepreneurs find their feet, Queen’s Partnerships and Innovation says farewell to the Wings program

WE-CAN Masterminds program helping Newboro Soap Company move to next stage of business

Jul 25, 2023

After retiring pre-pandemic from a busy and stressful career, Dani Warman decided to transform her love of handmade soap making into a cottage business.