The International Photonics Commercialization Alliance (IPCA) is an alliance of international businesses, photonics clusters, and government organizations from the US and Canada working in the field of photonics. These organizations have combined to create an international commercialization association called - International Photonics Commercialization Alliance - IPCA. The alliance is a not-for-profit organization whose goal is to act as a hub between businesses, regional photonic clusters, and technology commercialization centers, internationally, with the mandate of facilitating the commercialization of photonics-enabled ideas and to help strengthen our members' capacity to innovate and to compete in today's global economy.
Our Mission:
To provide leadership and support internationally for the commercialization of photonics-enabled technologies. We offer members assistance in all aspects of commercialization by providing an interactive environment where entrepreneurs, investors and researchers meet and exchange ideas to cultivate new opportunities.
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Technologies for License List NOW available
Click HERE for a list of technologies for license through IPCA organizations in both Canada and the United States. Email David Gottfried for more information about listing your organization's technologies available for licensing.
Photonics Business Search Engine
Our
Photonics, Optics and Microsystems Search Engine indexes
over 400 websites for photonics companies primarily located
in our key geographic regions - Boston, Denver, Ottawa,
Rochester and Toronto. Use this search engine when you have
specific technology requirements and you want to quickly
find what you're looking for. Interested in advertising
opportunities on the Photonics Search Engine? Email
David Gottfried for
more information about banner ads, or purchasing certain
key words.
Commercialization
Tools Online
In
addition to our Photonics Search, IPCA members include
significant R&D centers that can assist innovators and
businesses take new technology developments through to
commercialization. Information on these centers, and other
resources you can use can be found HERE.
Winter LightNEWS Online
Click
HERE to
download the latest issue of LightNEWS - the official
newsletter of IPCA. To have your news items published in
upcoming issues of LightNEWS, please email
David Gottfried.
Presentation
Videos Online
All
of the video and powerpoint presentations from the 2nd and
3rd Annual Executive Symposiums on Photonics
Commercialization are now online. Please visit the
Commercialization
Tools page
on this site to download these
presentations.
IPCA
Calendar of Events Updated
Be
sure to check out the latest calendar of events
pages for
our international photonics region. If your events are
not listed, please email us.
LightNEWS
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A
bi-monthly newsletter which highlights recent IPCA
activities and those of our stakeholders and cluster
members.
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