CPM Seminar

Taking an invention commercial - a basic intro to Intellectual Property and the commercialization process

Erica Besso

Research Innovation Office
McGill University

The research has led to an invention! First, we have to recognize it. Then we have to gauge the market need and identify the best path to turn our invention into a product. Commercialization has its own vocabulary and syntax - and knowing of these is a definite asset in effecting the transfer of an innovation from the lab to the marketplace.