Kyle Briggs

Kyle Briggs, PhD, is the Entrepreneur in Residence at the University of Ottawa and Co-founder of the SAIL Initiative. He is a physicist and former CEO of Northern Nanopore Instruments, the author of CanInnovate, and has appeared as an expert witness before the House of Commons Standing Committee on Science and Research. He is a co-author of the SAIL framework.

The SAIL Initiative is a not-for-profit effort focused on streamlining how Canada turns the intellectual property from its publicly funded research into socioeconomic benefit. It includes the Simple Agreement for Innovation Licensing (SAIL), a framework for technology transfer designed to reduce negotiation time, lower legal costs, and make licensing research technologies from universities to startups easier for everyone.