Canada’s “Innovation Asset Collective” was launched today with $30m in support through the government’s Patent Collective Pilot Program. According to Minister Bains’ announcement, “The Collective will bring businesses together to help them make the most strategic use of their intellectual property.”
Some links:
- Innovation Asset Collective
- Minister Bains’ announcement
- Jim Balsillie, “Long-awaited Patent Collective’s arrival one small step for Ottawa, one giant leap for Canada’s innovation economy“, Globe and Mail, December 4, 2020
- Announcement of Patent Collective strategy in April 2018
- Call to launch IP collective, February 2019
- IP Strategy details, August 2019
I am a small company and am an innovator and inventor with many products in various stages of prototype and research and would be very intrested to work with the new collective to see if I can bring these products to commercial success