WORLDiscoveries™ is the business development arm of London’s extensive research network and the bridge between local invention and global industry. 

Born out of a partnership between The University of Western Ontario, Robarts Research Institute and Lawson Health Research Institute, WORLDiscoveries draws upon a mix of industry connections, sector-specific market knowledge and business development expertise, to help researchers and local inventors commercialize their discoveries through licensing and new company spin-offs.

In delivering this value proposition, WORLDiscoveries will be a material contributor to the sustained financial health and vitality of London’s Research Row and the community at large.

London’s Research Row is a new concept used to describe a geographical band that is home to a large number of London’s Research-based institutions.  The Row, which employs nearly 2,000 researchers and conducts over $330 million in research annually,  runs in a notional straight line from Western’s Research Park south to the London Heath Sciences Centre Victoria Hospital Campus and includes all of London’s Hospitals, Lawson Health Research Institute, NRC, Robarts Research Institute, CSTAR, Children’s Health Research Institute and the University of Western Ontario. 

More importantly, WORLDiscoveries seeks to;

1. Remain one of the top five business development offices in Canada.
2. Substantially increase the number of Spin-off companies in the region.
3. Establish WORLDiscoveries and Research Row as a preeminent commercialization centre in North America by 2012.

WORLDiscoveries represents a new and exciting means of bringing local knowledge and invention to the global market and the global market to our local economy.

WORLDiscoveries is excited to work with your company to bring London’s innovative technologies to the world. 

Browse our pharmalicensing listing to see if any of our current technologies meet your company’s needs or contact any member of our team to find out if your unique technology need can be met by a WORLDiscoveries researcher.

If a WORLDiscoveries product attracts your company’s interest, our team will work hard to create a partnership that generates a fair return to you, our industry partner, as well as to our research and institutional partners and the community at large.

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