Summary, Meeting on commercialization measurement indicators, gaps and frameworks, Ottawa

Prior to the start of this work, the ongoing measurements of S&T activities were limited to the investment of money and human resources in research and development (R&D). [...] The purpose of the meeting was to explore gaps in the knowledge of commercialization and to help policy-makers, analysts and statisticians create frameworks for the development of indicators. [...] The meeting took a more immediate view of the challenge to measure commercialization and asked what has to be done in the short term to answer questions related to policies of the government. [...] The meeting began with a review of the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada's (AUCC) agreement with the federal government in which the goal of tripling commercialization by 2010 is set. [...] She then elaborated on the current efforts of the AUCC to push the measurement of commercialization to a broader discussion of the economic and social benefits of research, innovation and knowledge transfer, of which commercialization is an aspect.