When the Global Entrepreneurship Congress convenes in Liverpool next week, one of the largest delegations will come from Canada. A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to tour one of Canada’s best startup cities—Waterloo—which offered some useful insights for the global entrepreneurship community.
Much like other innovation hubs, the genesis of this one is a university, the University of Waterloo, where an inventor-owned intellectual property policy has been a catalyst in the success of the city’s entrepreneurship ecosystem. Contrary to the lack of freedom at U.S. universities where commercialization is centralized in technology transfer offices, Canadian universities do not have major guidelines in this regard. Dubbed by many as "the most liberal intellectual property policy of anywhere in the world,” this policy has clearly helped Waterloo attract world-class researchers, and with innovators retaining ownership of their inventions, more entrepreneurs to commercialize them.
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