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Commercializing your Graduate Research In-Person

Does your thesis, research or prototype have application outside the academic realm? Are you interested in entrepreneurship as a potential career path? Find out how the process of research commercialization works for graduate students at U of T, what makes a good invention disclosure, and what you need to know about intellectual property, market research, and campus resources.

This three-hour workshop includes:
-Orientation to campus resources for startups
-Introduction to invention disclosures and research commercialization processes at U of T
-Introduction to library resources for business/market research

Instructor biographies

Holly Inglis, MLIS, is Public Services Librarian at the Business Information Centre at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. Holly has a BA (Hons) from the University of Guelph and an MLIS from Western. Prior to joining Rotman in 2012, she worked as a research specialist for the federal government.

Karen Temple, PhD, is Entrepreneurship Manager, Commercialization, at the Innovations and Partnerships Office at the University of Toronto. She has experience working with technology companies and startups to develop their customer base and scale their business.

Carey Toane, BAA, MA, MLIS, joined U of T as Entrepreneurship Librarian at the Gerstein Science Information Centre in 2015. Her market research expertise is based on her experience as a business librarian at Western and York Universities, as well as over a decade as a marketing journalist and copywriter at digital agencies and startups.

Related LibGuide: Entrepreneurship by Carey Toane