For more than three decades the City of Waterloo has followed a strategy of supporting and encouraging innovation.

The strategy is a direct result of the University of Waterloo's policy on the ownership of Intellectual Property.  This revolutionary policy gave students and faculty ownership rights of IP developed at the University and resulted in a wave of entrepreneurship that propelled technology and innovation culture into the community.  This rapidly encouraged leading edge intellectual and educational ideas at a grassroots level.

Today, Waterloo's intelligent community strategy aims to ensure that technological achievements are developed locally and celebrated internationally. These initiatives can be used to link social and economic entrepreneurship across communities, to share the City's skills, services, applications and other broadband achievements within the region, across Canada and around the world.

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