In recent decades Canadian universities, including Concordia, have gained intellectual property rights over their researchers’ work and are attempting to capitalize from it. But returns are slim and costs are high, and the practice has raised ethical concerns. What really makes Concordia want to commercialize?
“My job here is to invent new ideas,” Concordia engineering professor Muthukumaran Packirisamy told The Link in July, sitting in his office in the EV building. Packirisamy is known in the academic world for developing microsensors used in medical diagnosis and telecommunications.
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