There have been too many players each doing their own thing, making it difficult for entrepreneurs to know where to turn and how to get enough backing to make commercial breakthroughs.
The province recently cancelled funding for Ontario Agriculture Food Technologies, Bioenterprise and Oilseed Innovation Partners. They were all working out of the same building, but not working together, Greig reports.
The City of Guelph is also delivering agriculture and food startup programs, he wrote.
The University of Guelph has licensed the successful accelerator program from the University of Waterloo, he wrote, and it also has the Gryphon’s Leading to the Accelerated Adoption of Innovative Research (LAAIR) program, in which researchers are selected to learn more about moving their technology from research to commercialization.
