Western Research Parks joins IASP

IASP is very pleased to welcome Western Research Parks, Canada, as a new member of our global community!

For over three decades, Western Research Parks have served as a strong link between academics and commerce, and a key contributor to the movement of an idea or a discovery from concept to the marketplace. The original Park, now called Western Discovery Park, is located adjacent to Western University and offers office space, lab space and industrial grade space, including the Stiller Centre for Technology Commercialization, one of Canada’s most successful biotechnology incubators. Tenants at Western Discovery Park range from national government laboratories, to large multi-industrial research centres, to some of Canada’s fastest-growing emerging companies.

Western has expanded its Park programme and contributed to the opening of two more parks.

The Western Advanced Manufacturing Park, created through a partnership between Western University, Fanshawe College, and the City of London, is a 130-acre technology park located in the heart of Canada's largest manufacturing region. It is zoned for full-scale manufacturing and large-scale research, with many large industries nearby, including Hanwha, 3M Canada, Trojan Technologies, Cami Automotive, and Toyota Manufacturing.

Offering convenient access to Toronto, Detroit, seven universities and 30% of Canada’s population within a two-hour drive, it has ample room to grow and develop new technologies, particularly in the renewable energy and transportation sectors.

The third site is 80 acre Western-Sarnia-Lambton Research Park, based on the redeveloped site of the  former Dow Chemical headquarters. Established in 2003 as a joint initiative of the County of Lambton, the City of Sarnia, and Western University, it is located alongside to Lambton College and is home to the Bowman Centre for Technology Commercialization, Canada’s largest clean-tech incubator, focused on large scale industrial technology. Resident companies range from large multi-national companies, to non-profit organizations, to small start-up companies and commercialization projects.

Please join us in welcoming them as new members of IASP!