Industry
Working with industry partners, we accelerate research-driven innovations from their origins within the lab and out to market.
We are a major driver in Canada’s innovation ecosystem, leveraging collaborations, licensing, company creation, and other technology transfer initiatives to maximize the impact of our science.
Overview
Offering world-unique infrastructure and leading talent, TRIUMF is positioned at the nexus of government, academia, and industry – collaborating and providing skills and expertise beyond what any of these groups could do alone.
Through our commercialization arm, TRIUMF Innovations, our business teams brings new discoveries to market through industry partnerships and collaboration, licensing, and the creation of start-up companies that leverage made-at-TRIUMF technologies and inventions. TRIUMF Innovations identifies, assesses, develops, incubates, and commercializes technologies in collaboration with partners in industry, academia, and government.
TRIUMF INNOVATIONS
Accelerating commercialization from science
TRIUMF Innovations acts as a connector to the business world by providing market opportunities for applied physics-based technologies that emerge from the TRIUMF network – by streamlining access to TRIUMF’s world-class expertise and infrastructure, and by connecting TRIUMF researchers and technologies to the world via industry partnerships, licensing, and business development.
TRIUMF spin-off companies
To date, TRIUMF Innovations has helped five spin-off companies successfully go to market, with more in the pipeline. TRIUMF Innovations helps TRIUMF startups navigate complex intellectual property management, assisting with patent filings, invention disclosures, fundraising, partnering and investment.
INDUSTRY & USER FACILITIES
TRIUMF operates a number of premiere, globally-unique research and testing facilities to connect industry partners with the services and expertise they need to assess, develop, and deploy their products.
INDUSTRY AND PARTNER NEWS
Canada signs Statement of Intent with CERN regarding future major projects
(with notes from the original CERN story) Canada has signed a joint Statement of Intent with CERN concerning future planning…April 11, 2025
TRIUMF welcomes Dr. Chris Astle as next CFO
TRIUMF is pleased to announce Dr. Chris Astle as the laboratory’s next Chief Financial Officer, effective April 1, 2025. Chris…March 26, 2025
TRIUMF and CNRS create joint Canada-France NPAT laboratory for research in nuclear physics and astrophysics
On November 4, TRIUMF joined French research organization CNRS to sign a partnership agreement to create the NPAT (‘Nuclear Physics, Nuclear Astrophysics…November 5, 2024
