Why partner with UVic?

For our expertise

Researchers at UVic are leaders in their fields, renowned for innovative research and advanced discoveries. These researchers were awarded more than $98 million in external research grants and contracts in 2009/10, more than triple the amount ten years ago and UVic is one of Canada’s premier research-intensive universities, with faculty who are committed to sharing their ideas, innovations and expertise with research partners.

UVic is also home to the world-leading Ocean Networks Canada (ONC) observatory, the UVic-Genome BC Proteomics Centre, the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions and many other cutting edge research centres. UVic owns more technology transfer space than any other BC university and the UVic-owned Vancouver Island Technology Park (VITP) is an economic powerhouse for the province of BC, generating $317 million in direct, indirect and induced revenue and creating more than 2,000 local jobs. A highly acclaimed centre of academic and biotech excellence, VITP facilitates the local growth of high technology, which is already Victoria’s number one industry.

The benefits of collaborating with UVic researchers include:

To leverage programs

Many of Canada’s major research funding agencies offer incentives for companies to work with academic researchers. These programs offer a chance for companies to increase the purchasing power of their research and development budgets and to leverage their research dollars, all while accessing some of the brightest minds in research. The staff within Research Partnerships and Knowledge Mobilizaiton have extensive experience helping industry partners increase their leveraging ability by finding matching funds and supplemental grants from a variety of sources. Some funding programs require cash or in-kind matching contributions from industry partners, while others require no cash contribution from industry.

Examples of these programs include: