Why Partner With Us?

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Gain the innovation advantage

Partner with us to quickly transform research into practical, commercially viable products, processes and technologies – empowering your organization to enter new markets, reduce costs and boost productivity.

We’ve collaborated with industry partners on a number projects. These research partnerships have advanced renewable energy generation and storage, accelerated the digital transformation of traditional industries, and explored ways to advance regenerative medicine and immune engineering.

Case Study: Advancing technology to market

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Benefit from our project management expertise

Applied Science researchers excel in large, multi-disciplinary projects that produce impactful research and breakthrough technologies. Our team can oversee strategic planning and resource coordination to structure and phase collaborative research programs. We know how to enable productive collaborations by securing high-value funding support, building strategic capacity and transforming research into impactful and lucrative spinoffs.

Case Study: Joint venture aims to revolutionize mining

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Leverage your investment

When you partner with us, your research dollars go further. Our dedicated Dean's Office Research Team will maximize your return on investment by seeking matching grants and other funding. Applied Science has a strong track record of success in securing grants from federal and provincial sources, reflecting our strengths in addressing complex challenges of interest to a range of funders and partners.

Learn more about the project funding available to our partners: research@apsc.ubc.ca

Case Study: Helping SMEs be more competitive

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Access our world-class infrastructure

Labs, research facilities and state-of-the-art equipment represent a significant investment. Spend your research dollars wisely by partnering with us and gaining access to our world-class infrastructure and expertise. We have research facilities across our two campuses, with UBC researchers working on everything from new advances in bioengineering to making buildings more disaster resistant.

We're currently designing Applied One, an interdisciplinary building for learning, teaching and research on our Vancouver campus that will create the conditions for the real-world testing of health, tech, and equity solutions. This building will join other living labs on campus, including our smart energy district fuelled by solar and hydrogen energy and our biomass research and demonstration facility.

Case Study: From development to demonstration to deployment

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Grow your intellectual property

Intellectual property is a crucial asset. We will work with you from the outset to determine how to manage intellectual property generated by our partnership to meet your goals, and we can offer exclusive rights to licence intellectual property coming out of a collaborative project. UBC's Technology Transfer Group also provides a full suite of services to advance the commercialization of new inventions and maximize the benefits of innovation.

Case Study: Bringing solutions to market at 5G speed

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Build your reputation

We offer opportunities for you to grow your visibility through workshops, networking events, seminars and more - all of which can help position your organization as a leader in its field and expand your professional network.

Our partners have benefited from technology demonstration projects, research symposiums, international conference presentations and speaking engagements, and seminars and webinar series showcasing partnership impacts. We also organize consortiums where partners are at the table with their clients or prospective clients.