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TRLabs
Leverage

- Affiliate Sponsor

25
20
15
10
5
0

87

88

89 90

91

92

93

94 95

96

97

TRLabs
Graduates'

Next Steps
by Percentage

Further Studies 14

Western Firms 14

Foreign Firms 8

Ontario Firms 4
Western Sponsors 30
Ontario Sponsors 26

TRLabs 4

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Research Program

Photonics
Software

Networks

Wireless

Access

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Technology

140 Invention Disclosures

83 Applications Developed
55 Considered by Sponsors
34 Pursued by Sponsors
Patents / Pending
Proprietary Technical Reports
Journal Papers & Theses
Publications
Standards Contributions
Conferences

50
140
180
350
5

25

Research Impact

TRLabs

Performance vs NCEs
14

5

49

1.5

34

3.8

1.1

13.2
9.9

2.6

0.2

0.6
Invention
Disclosures
ave/yr

Patent
Applications
ave/yr

Patents
Awarded
ave/yr

Collaboration
Agreements
ave/yr

Canadian Universities

Average NCE

U.S. Universities

TRLabs

Cost per Patent
Applications
$M

TRLabs External

1990

Stanford
Research
Institute

Evaluation

1993
Ordino
Inc.

1995
Ernst &
Young

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External Evaluation
1995 Ernst & Young
“...an excellent approach to meeting its
stated mandate and objectives”

“... an excellent model to gain tripartite
collaboration by industry, government
and academia and to conduct longer-term
1993 Ordino Inc.
precompetitive research in a way which
“... has
generated
economic
development financial leverage to all participants”
1990 Stanford
Research
Institute
provides
activity through its own operations and

by attracting sponsorships from industry”
“... mandate and strategy were both
“... has hadindustrial
an impact through its

appropriate to the province’s
infrastructure role in attracting
and technology capabilities
and
investmentssupportive
in the wireless
of its economictelecommunications
development objectives”
industry in Calgary”

“... governments get as much if not more
financial leverage from TRLabs as they
received from any other research
“... the mandate
successfully
“...has
thebeen
mechanisms
employed are effective
and

the
conditions
for
the
developed and implemented throughconsortia
in Canada”
institute’s success are present”
effective management”

Synergy Award

TRLabs

U N I V E R S I T YINDUSTRY

Synergy
R&D

PA R T N E R S H I P
AWARD

Sponsored by:
The Conference Board
of Canada
Natural Sciences and Engineering
Research Council of Canada

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ASTech Award

ASTech
ASTechAward
Award

Alberta
Science & Technology
Leadership Award

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International Activities

•Technical Publications/Conferences
•International Missions/Visits
•Wireless & Multi-Media Conferences
•Lucent, MCI, BT, NECTEC
•Telecom '95, Malaysia-Canada Telecom '96
•Asia Telecom '97, Asia Board Mission '97