FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Questions, Shocks and a lot of POP

C4 releases winter 2009 newsletter

A new issue of the Stepping Stone, the newsletter of the C4, is now available.

Winter 2009 Stepping Stone

POP

A look at ten technologies that C4 is helping to commercialize and supporting through its Proof-of-Principle Fund.

Shocks

A new battery technology developed at the University of Waterloo promises better performance while using less lithium

Questions

C4 helps kinesiologists commercialize a quality-of-life questionnaire.

About C4

C4 fosters innovation in Southwest Ontario by promoting technology transfer and commercialization. Comprised of ten universities and research institutions, C4 members coordinate their resources, cooperate with governmental and industrial bodies, collaborate in multi-disciplinary research to solve real world problems, and commercialize the results of their research.

C4’s members are McMaster, Guelph, Waterloo, Western, Windsor, and Wilfrid Laurier universities, and Robarts Research Institute, the Lawson Health Research Institute, Hamilton Health Sciences, and St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton. This diverse group of universities and research institutions generates hundreds of new discoveries each year. It is C4’s mission to help its members transfer these discoveries to society.

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