Just as universities are shaped by their location - which guides academic direction, research and more - educational institutions influence their surroundings through contributions to the talent pool, research and development, and engagement with industry and communities.
There is an additional superpower universities can leverage: they catalyze innovation with ripple effects with local, regional, national - and even international reach. Illustrating such an impact are recent innovations coming out of the University of Saskatchewan (USask), for example, a minilab that enables in-field crop testing.
"A company called PathoScan has developed a little scientific instrumentation box, so farmers don't have to go through the lengthy process of sending out samples and having to wait for results before they know whether they have disease in their field and how to address it," says Alix Hayden, director, Innovation Mobilization and Partnerships at USask's Office of the Vice-President Research. "Imagine the impact of this innovation for growers and food producers, for farming communities and for food security in general."
Read the full article originally published at the Globe and Mail.
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