Communities of Practice (CoP) Workshop: Concepts for Commercialization

This archive contains presentations (slides and video recording) at the CoP Workshop on the "Concepts for Commercialization" held at MaRS in Toronto on February 12-13, 2007. This workshop focused on best practices in the use of knowledge management as applied to commercializing the results of research. The intended outcome out of the workshop was to otbain consensus around certain principles that can be used to guide organizational and technological development in support of commercialization.


Entries in the archive are marked as:

• PDF (Adobe PDF file)
• YouTube (Link to watch the presentation)

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Presentation Slides and Recorded Presentations

• Introduction and Overview - Mr. Bill Mantel, MRI and Professor Dominic Covvey, University of Waterloo
  • YouTube

• On the CoP Concept - Dr. Etienne Wenger
  • Slides (PDF)
  • YouTube
• On Applying the CoP Concept and Best Practices - Dr. Deb Wallace
  • Slides (PDF)
  • YouTube
• Commercialization of Technology - Dr. Olav Sorenson
  • Slides (PDF)
  • YouTube
• Next Steps and Summary - Professor Dominic Covvey (Moderator)
  • YouTube