McMaster Industry Liaison Office (MILO)

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