Bridging Knowledge and the Economy

Hello,

A few weeks since my last post. I then have many news to share with you.

First, probably the most important one, you may know that Didier left Univalor. After 5 years at Univalor, he is joining MSBi Valorisation (equivalent of Univalor for McGill, Sherbrooke and Bishop’s Universities) as the General Manager. I had lots of fun (and learned a lot!) working with him. Just hope, we’ll be able to collaborate soon on some exciting projects! Thanks and Good Luck Didier!

Since we came back from Photonics West 09, we have been very busy working on new projects from Université de Montréal (Equipment for transporting thermolabile products), École Polytechnique (software for condition based maintenance, software for writing analysis) and Hopital Sainte-Justine (Quantitative clinical postural assessment Tool). Of course, as soon as our analysis is completed, I’ll give you more details here.

We have also been working with ScisWave to prepare Capital Innovation. ScisWave is one of the 9 selected companies and will be presenting at the 2009 edition (Montreal – March 25).
This year, Guy Kawasaky, Founder and CEO of Garage Technology Ventures, will be Keynote Speaker! If you don’t know him yet, I recomment you read “The Art of the Start“, the best book I have ever read on start-up creation (Thanks again Didier for recommending me to read it!).

I’m now preparing my next two trips:WBT late March, 3 projects selected, and, TechConnect Summit early May, 5 projects selected. If you’re going, I’d love the meet you there!

Last News? The February 09 edition of the Vector is now available! Check out the progress of Ptidej on page 3.

Cheers,

Thomas

PS: Don’t forget to stop by Univalor’s new website