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.
LATEST NEWS:
4th Annual Executive Symposium on Photonics
Commercialization - Thursday, June 5th
This
high-level international event brings senior executives
from leading photonics corporations together with high
ranking government officials to present their perspective
on the commercialization of photonics. Presenters will also
showcase emerging commercial opportunities in optics and
photonics and show how these developments are changing the
way we live. This is a one day symposium where CTOs, CEOs,
VPs of Engineering, high-ranking government officials,
venture capitalists and industry analysts will provide
their perspectives on the most rapidly evolving markets and
how photonics will provide solutions to problems of global
economic importance.
Click: HERE for
complete details and registrations.
Spring, 2008 LightNews -
CLICK HERE
CPFC Receives Additional $22 Million in
Funding from Canadian Government
Photonics North 2008
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.
2007
International Photonics, Food, and Agriculture Conference
Roadmap
to Security and Production in the 21st Century.
This
critical conference highlighted the significant
opportunities for finding solutions to smart farming
practices, tracking products, and ensuring food safety
through photonics, optoelectronics, and
microsystems-enabled technologies. The technology
road-mapping session included speaker representatives from
production, wholesale, distribution, and retail sales who
presented the latest advances in addressing agribusiness
problems, and future development needs. From smart farming
to monitoring pathogens and mitigating infectious diseases,
to tracking products through the supply chain, agriculture
and innovative technologies were presented as possible
solutions to these and many other problems.
CLICK here for
more information.
Canadian
Delegates Offered Snapshot of Tucson Technology
The
delegation toured the University of Arizona and Science and
Technology Park and met with local optics and photonics
industry officials. For the complete story, click
HERE.
Infotonics Technology Center Awarded $3 million from U.S.
Department of Commerce/Economic Development Administration
The
Infotonics Technology
Center in
Canandaigua, NY has been awarded a $3 million grant from
the Economic Development Administration in the U.S.
Department of Commerce. The funds will help the center
incubate businesses in the fields of photonics,
information systems and optics... For the complete
story, click HERE.
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.
WINTER 2006-07
SPRING 2006
SUMMER 2006