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.
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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
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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
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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 presentations from the 2nd Annual Executive
Symposium on Photonics Commercialization are now online.
Please visit the Commercialization
Tools page
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presentations.
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