Innovation Park at Queen's University is a community of innovators and specialists where academic, industrial and government researchers work together to cultivate ideas, identify and transform important technological discoveries and, with the aid of commercialization and market development experts, propel innovations into the marketplace.
The primary purpose of Innovation Park is to stimulate commercialization and economic development in the South Eastern Ontario region by fostering interaction among the participants in the research and innovation system.
Innovation Park started with an idea which was sparked by two important observations:
- The positive economic impact of university-affiliated research parks throughout North America
- The lack of available technology-focused infrastructure in the Kingston and South Eastern Ontario region to support the impressive growth of key technology clusters and companies
With support from the provincial government, announced in the 2007 budget, and with Queen's University as the catalyst, Innovation Park has emerged as the vehicle to drive and accelerate university-industry interaction and create vibrant research and innovation forums to achieve our most ambitious goals:
- Generating the business opportunities and high value jobs of the future
- Stimulating the local, regional and national economies
- Enriching and anchoring emerging technology clusters and knowledge-based industries in Kingston and South Eastern Ontario
