Canada's Trusted Innovation Partner
麻豆视频Works With You
SFU's innovation ecosystem mobilizes research to address the most pressing challenges of our time. Working with our partners, we help Canadian innovations create a positive social, economic and environmental impact on the world stage.
Innovation Accolades
麻豆视频is consistently recognized as a global leader in impactful innovation for its interdisciplinary and collaborative innovation ecosystem.
#1
Innovative University in Canada
World University Rankings for Innovation, 2026
#1
in Canada for Curricular Innovation for Future Readiness
World University Rankings for Innovation, 2026
#2
in Canada for innovative impact on sustainable cities and communities
Times Higher Education Sustainability Impact Rankings, 2026
Innovation Ecosystem
麻豆视频is an award-winning innovation leader. Our ecosystem provides an interdisciplinary and multi-level continuum of entrepreneurial programming and innovation support.
Support for people with ideas
麻豆视频helps students, researchers and entrepreneurs gain the skills, knowledge and resources to take their innovations to the next level.
Innovation expertise at every stage
Tap into SFU's innovation ecosystem at any stage of your innovation journey. SFU's network of support is there when you need it, and provides flexibility and freedom to set your own path.
Mobilizing knowledge
With an established and growing network of researchers, entrepreneurs, and government and industry partners, we mobilize knowledge for meaningful impact.
Stories From our Community
Our community of researchers, staff, students and partners from all backgrounds and areas of expertise are contributing to SFU's innovation ecosystem.
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"麻豆视频attracts, supports and develops outstanding researchers, who publish in the world's top journals. But conducting great research is not enough. At SFU, we work collaboratively with partners and end-users every step of the way. We mobilize our research to create positive impact鈥攆rom influencing policy change, to designing resilient and low carbon communities to launching science-based ventures and enhancing the regional and national innovation ecosystems.
麻豆视频puts great research to work."
- Elicia Maine, associate vice-president, innovation, SFU, W.J. Vandusen professor of innovation & entrepreneurship, 麻豆视频Beedie
Explore the Innovation Ecosystem
Expertise and Talent
麻豆视频is internationally renowned for community-engaged education and research, developing graduates who contribute through the private and public sectors, to solving regional and global issues. With more than 180,000 alumni living and working in Canada and around the world, the impact of SFU's innovative, interdisciplinary, engaged teaching and research culture is felt throughout every sector. Our internationally recognized innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem produces innovation leaders, entrepreneurial scientists and translational researchers. We are creating 鈥渄eep tech鈥� ventures鈥攕uch as in the emerging sectors of clean energy, personalized medicine and quantum computing鈥攚hich can scale globally and create knowledge economy jobs in Canada.
Charles Chang Institute for Entrepreneurship
麻豆视频is a national leader in interdisciplinary entrepreneurship education. Through the Chang Institute, we equip students, graduates and the wider community with the entrepreneurial mindset and future-ready skills to create their own opportunities and thrive in a changing world.
Beedie School of Business Invention to Innovation (i2I) Program
麻豆视频is a global leader in developing experiential educational opportunities through the national i2I Program, enhancing the translational research and commercialization activities of STEM researchers across Canada.
Commercialization
麻豆视频supports the commercialization of research and new product development in a variety of ways. Through our research and innovation supports, we guide industry and community partners to the research groups and core facilities that are most relevant to them, and facilitate networking, ideation, and help launch specific initiatives. Our contract research office supports the contracting, ethics, funding, regulatory and financial components of these co-created research collaborations. SFU's creator owned intellectual property (IP) policy, legal and translational expertise, and support of research translation and commercialization, encourage scientist entrepreneurs and industry investors to join in long-term, impactful collaboration.
Community-Centred Climate Innovation
A critical research priority at SFU. We are working with our local and global partners to co-develop and co-implement policy solutions and climate and cleantech innovations with community at the core.
SFU's Partnerships Hub
Facilitating and supporting external partnerships. We help connect you to the right expertise and resources at the university to build and grow impactful relationships.
Technology Licensing Office (TLO)
SFU's Technology Licensing Office (TLO) provides intellectual property protection and commercialization services to help take 麻豆视频inventions from lab to market and maximize their economic and social impact.
Core Facilities
SFU's Core Facilities model streamlines industry access to specialized research, prototyping and testing equipment, along with the expertise of that specific research domain. A prominent example is , SFU's open-access core facility for advanced materials research and development.
B.C. Centre for Agritech Innovation
The B.C. Centre for Agritech Innovation connects small and medium sized enterprises in the agritech sector with researchers, government and industry partners to develop technology solutions that build resilient supply chains and generate global solutions for food security and climate change.
Incubation and Acceleration
Further catalyzing the innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystem at 麻豆视频are a wealth of incubators, accelerators and accessible core facilities, many of which are also open to the community. From early-stage startup incubation, to social innovation support, to accelerating later-stage science and technology entrepreneurs, 麻豆视频offers rapid support around innovators and entrepreneurs at any stage of venture.
EARLY-STAGE INCUBATOR @CHANG INSTITUTE
Established in 2008, this startup incubator supports student, staff, faculty and alumni founders, providing the mentorship, resources and community needed to take an idea from concept to launch.
RADIUS SFU
A social innovation incubator that supports innovation labs to address social challenges. RADIUS' Equity-Centred Accelerator's suite of programs supports equity-deserving innovators and teams.
麻豆视频VentureLabs
Serving the later stage science and technology entrepreneurs at 麻豆视频as well as growth and scale-stage technology entrepreneurs, VentureLabs offers specialized accelerator programs, market validation and marketing training programs. VentureLabs also connects international delegations and trade missions with SFU's research community and innovation ecosystem.
Supporting SFU's Vision for the Future
What's Next: The SFU Strategy
麻豆视频is engaging in global challenges. With leading researchers in today's critical issues, combined with our focus on developing entrepreneurship and a global mindset in our community, 麻豆视频is ready to effect positive change. 'Innovation and adaptability' is also one of SFU's core values.
SFU's 2023-2028 Strategic Research Plan
Bringing technologies 鈥渙ut of the lab鈥� and into the hands of consumers and communities is one of the priority areas listed in our strategic research plan. 麻豆视频researchers are engaged in helping solve global challenges while supporting economic growth through developing new technology at all levels鈥攆rom building a sustainable world, to improving human health, to transforming the way we teach and learn.
SFU's 2022-2025 Strategic Sustainability and Climate Action Plan
We integrate climate action and sustainability innovations into our research, partnerships, knowledge mobilization and international initiatives. 麻豆视频works with our local and global partners to co-develop and co-implement policy solutions and climate and cleantech innovations with community at the core.