Innovation Impact
Learn how UCalgary researchers, students, postdocs, and staff are making a positive difference in our world.
University innovation, knowledge engagement and commercialization deliver tangible impact that includes job and new venture creation, product and service sales, and new research opportunities.
It creates economic impact through social and technical advances that lead to new technologies, policies and behaviors, and healthier societies. In Canada, research universities are responsible for 83% of all contracted private-sector research.
Growing innovation at the University of Calgary aligns with federal and provincial Government and City of Calgary strategies for economic growth, builds upon our existing strategies for enhancing the value propositions of the university (Student Experience and Impact), and is derived from our commitment to excellence in Research and Teaching.
Innovation News
New national hub director sets out to empower innovators to solve global challenges
Get to know UCalgary-based XPRIZE Canada's Sarah McCullough
UCalgary nursing researchers develop trauma and resilience training for frontline workers in ERs
Evidence-based intervention emerged from a six-year study of mental health care in a Calgary hospital’s emergency department
Building a global network for change: Sadiq Gulma’s vision for social innovation
UCalgary-hosted ISIRC 2025 offers PhD students and early career researchers a platform to advance social impact through collaboration and mentorship with a new colloquium
Carpe Momentum: Why Canada’s future depends on its entrepreneurs
Guy Levesque, writing in The Hill Times: If we invest in this generation’s builders, from classrooms to companies, our prosperity agenda will not just imagine a better future, but build it
Untapped potential, healthy workplace cultures and serial entrepreneurship
Kyle Romaniuk, author and founder of FRAKXION, to take the stage at UCalgary’s Hunter Hub and TC Energy speaker event
podcast
Now Innovating: Cybersecurity in the age of AI and quantum applications
A conversation with Dr. Hadis Karimipour, PhD, Associate Professor, Schulich School of Engineering