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Welcome to the McMaster Industry Liaison Office (MILO), serving McMaster University, Hamilton Health Sciences and St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton. MILO helps researchers ensure that their inventions and discoveries benefit humankind.
New tool
MILO releases flowcharts
If you're still wondering how technology commercialization and research contracts work, MILO has released a set of flowcharts explaining the processes our office follows. The following charts are available.
News
Anvari and Hirsh honoured with Innovator Awards
Mehran Anvari, Professor of Surgery, chosen as the 2009 McMaster Innovator of the Year; and Jack Hirsh, Professor Emeritus of Medicine, honoured with the 2009 McMaster Lifetime Innovator Award.
Collaboration Leads to New Commercial Product
Henderson Research Centre in Vascular Biology and Thrombosis partners with Technoclone to develop assay.
Helping researchers work with industry
Everyday, McMaster faculty perform ground-
breaking research. MILO's mission is to help researchers move their research into society.
Specifically, MILO can help you:
- Work with industry (e.g. negotiating sponsored research contracts, NDAs and MTAs)
- Obtain funding for collaborative research with industry and commercialization funding (e.g. OCE Market Readiness)
- Protect your work with patents, trade-marks and copyrights
- Commercialize your work
- Connect to support networks such as C4, Southwest Ontario's technology transfer community
Connecting industry to McMaster
We understand that Canadian businesses face challenging competition. McMaster is here to help, providing access to the knowledge and expertise of a thousand researchers.
How you can work with McMaster
- Sponsor a collaborative research project to have our researchers work on problems you need addressed
- Licence technologies our researchers have already discovered
- Take advantage of our unique facilities and services