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
From the Netherlands to Calgary: How Leon Pluns started something at UCalgary
Exchange student brought his app, Bondr, to life with the support of the Hunter Hub for Entrepreneurial Thinking
Cannon Lachapelle Awards celebrate UCalgary entrepreneurial excellence
$7.5M donation creates university’s third-largest graduate scholarship endowment
What’s happening at the Hunter Hub this fall?
The Hunter Hub supports innovators and changemakers at the University of Calgary
Solutions Lab invites UCalgary students to step up and propose solutions for Buy Canadian initiative
Applications for Experience Ventures Solutions Lab open until Sept. 21
UCalgary engineering students create neuromonitoring device for children on life-support
NeuraSense provides continuous, non-invasive stroke-monitoring system for kids
UCalgary students place third globally in Map the System social innovation competition
Team achieves podium finish — a first for UCalgary at Oxford event — highlighting cross-faculty collaboration