Research and Innovation

Industry | Bringing ideas to life

We can help your business or industry bring ideas to life by connecting you with faculty, student and staff researchers who have the expertise, skills and knowledge required to address your research and development needs.

• Step 1: Fill out the project request form
• Step 2: Work to define project
• Step 3: Start research project
• Step 4: Achieve outcomes of project

Faculty | Engage and develop

Applied research allows you to bring your expertise to industry, and to bring industry experiences to your students. As a faculty researcher, you will supervise and mentor students to ensure high quality results that meet the needs of industry partners.

• Step 1: Identify research opportunity
• Step 2: Work to define project
• Step 3: Assist with project proposals
• Step 4: Conduct research project

Students | Utilize your education 

Students work with industry and community partners on a variety of real-world projects including product design, testing, business support and market research.

• Step 1: Apply to be a student researcher
• Step 2: Interview for position
• Step 3: Conduct research project

Meet the people behind research at Georgian

Get to know Georgian’s talented and experienced team of researchers, including career highlights, achievements, research interests and pursuits, publications and more.

The Province of Ontario issued its Commercialization Mandate Policy Framework in early 2022. The objective of Ontario’s Commercialization Mandate Policy Framework is to harness the intellectual property generated with the institution’s resources to achieve Ontario’s goal of ensuring that made-in-Ontario innovations benefit Ontarians.

Georgian College is committed to supporting Ontario’s Commercialization Mandate Policy Framework within the context of the role Ontario colleges play in applied research and innovation.

Georgian College is uniquely positioned to collaborate with industry partners to advance innovation and facilitate commercialization of intellectual property in Ontario that creates economic and social benefits for our communities. In particular, applied research activities taking place at Ontario’s publicly funded colleges in partnership with small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) create innovative solutions to challenges being experienced in our communities in a variety of settings. These innovations will be a key driver for sustainable economic recovery, growth, and competitiveness in Ontario and will be critically important as we collectively emerge from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.   

In order to increase innovation at the community and regional level, Georgian College will continue to rely on funding from granting agencies, primarily federal agencies, as the operating funding provided to colleges does not reflect the overhead costs of exploring, developing and overseeing applied research projects.

Ontario’s Commercialization Mandate Framework provides an opportunity to advance the role of the publicly funded college sector in research and innovation. Georgian College looks forward to continuing to support our partners in the commercialization of intellectual property to realize the full benefits for all Ontarians.

Georgian is committed to research that recognizes the perspectives of all members-including Indigenous peoples, LGBTQ2+ persons, persons with disabilities, racialized persons and women, in order to create an environment where we are all given the opportunity to succeed.

The department of Research and Innovation connects industry and community partners with faculty and student researchers to help clear business and/or technology hurdles and better understand their target markets. For general inquiries, please contact us:

• Email: [email protected]
• Phone: 705.728.1968, ext. 1123
• Location: Barrie Campus, N201
• Hours: 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.