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
UCalgary and Providence Therapeutics kick off new partnership
New industry and university collaboration to develop mRNA vaccines for pre-clinical testing
Entrepreneurship lessons from an entrepreneurial artist
Award-winning artist Billie Rae Busby will take the stage for UCalgary Hunter Hub’s next speaker event
UCalgary shines at Innovation Week 2025
Research-based and alumni-founded ventures recognized among the city’s most promising new companies
Start Small. Learn Fast. Keep Going.
In a time of career transitions, rising costs and economic instability, entrepreneurship offers everyone a path to innovate, adapt and grow at any stage of their career. Here’s some practical advice from Dr. Chad Saunders, PhD’06, on turning ideas into reality.
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