How your business can benefit from NRC's Alliance with the Xerox Research Centre of Canada

1. Valuable Information for Your Clients:
How Your Business can Benefit from
NRC’s Alliance with the Xerox Research
Centre of Canada
Rod Paterson, NRC Workshop at XRCC
Paul Smith & Matt Heuft, XRCC January 24, 2017

2. • Future Vision - CCAMM
• NRC & XRCC Business Alliance
• Discussion – Clients’ Valleys of Death
• Working with NRC & XRCC
- Feedback on previous engagements
- Working with us now
• XRCC Tour
Agenda
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3. XRCC Innovation Hub Evolution
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4. A flagship advanced materials hub on XRCC’s
Mississauga, Ontario campus that will:
• Capture synergies from industry, public, and academic
investments
• De-risk the development and deployment of commercially viable
materials technologies
• Bridge the gaps between laboratory demonstration and industrial-
scale manufacturing
• Be the only Canadian prototyping and integration facility of its kind
• Provide open innovation opportunities for pre-competitive
research projects among founding members [and future
constituents]
CCAMM Concept
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5. Campus Start-Up:
Founding Members – NRC & Xerox
Research Alliance
Pre-competitive open innovation research projects
• Printed Electronics, Digital Manufacturing (Smart Objects), IOT
• Expand to include academia, other industry partners, and NFP RTO
organizations
Business Alliance
Joint business development
• NRC and XRCC RD&E service offerings
• Provides clients with access to services from TRL 1 through TRL6
CCAMM Site
NRC lab facility to be constructed on a portion of XRCC’s site
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6. NRC and XRCC Business Alliance
• Business alliance between a Fortune 500 global research centre and Canada’s
national labs to provide joint innovation services
• Expertise, facilities, and equipment combined from two research and innovation
powerhouses
• ‘One-stop shop’ for many technical product development challenges
• Wide range of services that help navigate the commercialization “valley of death”
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7. Discussion - “Valley of Death”
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Research Development
Increasing investment
‘Valley of Death’
Tech transfer/
productization
Product
launch
Successful
product
Successful
business
Commercialization
ProfitLoss
Time

8. Feedback on previous engagements with NRC & XRCC
Discussion
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9. ITAs
• A new solution/resource/offering to introduce to your clients
• Expanded and reinvigorated conversations with clients
• Increased value for you – larger playbook
• Greater network of collaborative and business relationships
ITA Clients
• À la carte ‘TRL uplift/de-risking’ services available – customized to each clients’
requirements
• No need for internal capital investment – access what has already been built by
NRC and XRCC
• Deep expertise – exploit decades of experience in technology creation and
commercialization – across entire TRL spectrum – make critical challenges
ordinary challenges
• Leverage size and network of the alliance to access unrealized resources and
connections
• Right-sized supply of materials and prototypes to enable cost efficient MVP
deployment and customer/market testing
Working with NRC & XRCC Today
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Chemical formulation
Functional Coatings
Resins, adhesives, paint
Prototyping
Scale up engineering and
process de-risking
Sensors for process control
Continuous process
engineering
Advanced materials and
composites
Printed electronics: materials,
methods, device design
Medical device design

11. Working with NRC & XRCC
to Navigate the “Valley of Death”
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Allied NRC and XRCC services available across a wide range of the TRL spectrum can
optimize commercialization activities and accelerate time to market
Research
Optimal investment
‘Valley of Death’
Tech transfer/
productization
Product
launch
Successful
product
Successful
business
Commercialization
ProfitLoss
Development
Time

12. How does it work? Low risk engagement process.
Got a client? Want to learn more? Feedback? Suggestions?
What do you really need?
Email: NRC-XRCC@xerox.com
Call: Matt Heuft 905-823-7091 x251
For further information:
http://xrcc.external.xerox.com/nrc-xrcc.html
Engagement
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