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When research meets the market

A ministerial visit puts medical innovation, commercialization and the path from lab to public benefit in the same frame.

Industry Minister Mélanie Joly visits Western, with focus on medical innovation, commercialization. Official Western News image.
Medicine & healthIndustry Minister Mélanie Joly visits Western, with focus on medical innovation, commercialization. Official Western News image.Photo: Western News / official source page

Commercialization is the bridge between a promising result and the people who might eventually use it. The Western visit highlights that the bridge needs researchers, students, institutions, industry partners and public investment.

It is an entrepreneurship story with a wider vocabulary: not just founders and funding, but the patient work of moving evidence into practice.

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  1. Original reporting · news.westernu.ca
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