Ben Rogers
Director @ Toronto Innovation Acceleration Partners
Toronto, Canada
Ben Rogers is a startup investor at Toronto Innovation Acceleration Partners in Toronto. Ben holds a B.Sc. in Science and Business and an MBET (Master of Business, Entrepreneurship and Technology) from the University of Waterloo.At MaRS Innovation, he directs MaRS Innovation’s Technology Transfer & Scouting, which provides on-site intellectual property identification, protection and commercialization services to several MaRSInnovation member institutions, including Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and York University.Prior to joining MaRS Innovation, Ben began his commercialization career with a dual internship at the Canadian Arthritis Network and Mount Sinai Hospital through the Canadian Institutes of Health Research‘s Commercialization Management program. He continued at Mount Sinai Hospital’s Office of Technology Transfer & Industrial Liaison as a business development manager, where he was responsible for business planning, marketing and license negotiation for a portfolio of therapeutics and diagnostics technologies.
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About Toronto Innovation Acceleration Partners
MaRS Innovation (MI) is a commercialization engine that integrates, centralizes and accelerates time to market of the discovery and intellectual property assets from its 15 world-class research institutions. MI’s discovery and innovation pipeline is derived from $1 billion in annual R&D funding. Created as a not-for-profit organizationthrough the Government of Canada’s Center of Excellence for Commercialization and Research program (CECR), MI has raised $50 million from federal and provincial governments, member institutions and industry partners. MI’s vision is to transform the Toronto-based research enterprise into one of world’s most successful commercialization clusters.Through detailed, market facing due diligence, MI identifies opportunities from Canada’s largest academic cluster for further development and commercialization through project management, intellectual property management, investment and technology development. By crossing the innovation gap, MI transforms these opportunities into successful high-value licensing transactions and financeable start-up companies.
Toronto Innovation Acceleration Partners Contacts
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Ben Rogers
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Dominic Jaikaran
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Mark Zdziebko
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Prakash Gowd
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Susanne Staer
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