Canadian Innovation Centre

The Canadian Innovation Centre is to ideas as a birthing center is to babies. The Canadian Innovation Centre (CIC) provides inventors and innovative companies with such services as market research and concept appraisal.

CIC has worked with more then 70,000 Canadian inventors and innovating companies. The center has assesed over 13,000 new product ideas have been assessed and successfully guided thousands of products to the market. The CIC is an affiliate of the University of Waterloo and grew out of the university's Inventor's Assistance Program which began in 1976. The center was founded in 1981.

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