UBC’s international reputation for excellence in research is founded on the amazing discoveries and inspired ideas of our researchers.

Our work is strongly supported by strategic efforts to attract research funding, maintain modern facilities and equipment, steward partnerships with other institutions, recruit and retain leading thinkers, and mobilize knowledge beyond the campus.

As a premier centre for sustainability innovation, UBC is in the business of breakthroughs, social and technical. We work closely with enterprises, entrepreneurs, government agencies, utilities, NGOs and other clients to invent, co-develop, and bring to market game-changing innovations by combining imagination, investigation, and return on investment for our clients.

Partners, local and global, come to UBC so they can see their opportunities become reality. They value us for our alignment between research, development and deployment - experience and resources found nowhere else in a single organisation - so partners can accelerate their time to market, reduce risk, and build new revenue streams with lasting competitive advantage.