NAIT’s Centre for Advanced Medical Simulation is one of Western Canada’s largest accredited simulation centres that’s available for public use. We offer a fully customizable environment for testing health technologies and training healthcare professionals using remarkable high-fidelity, highly accurate simulation tools.

We enable innovators, educators, and emergency response professionals to safely test, refine, and improve their skills and processes in a risk-free space, backed by data and support to address critical care and safety challenges in our communities.

Whether you’re validating a product, developing competencies, or training for emergency scenarios, our twelve interactive and interdisciplinary simulation theatres — including a full-scale ambulance simulator — can replicate any clinical, community, home care, or emergency setting.

The Engineering Incubator is a mentor-centric commercialization platform designed to move innovation from concept to a venture scale company. We work with students, researchers, faculty, and recent alumni across all faculties to transform technical ideas into scalable ventures.

Our model integrates structured entrepreneurial education with real venture execution. Participants develop the skills, discipline, and strategic judgment required to navigate commercialization while actively building alongside experienced mentors and industry leaders. There is no cost to participate, and no equity or fees are taken.

We guide teams toward one of three primary outcomes:

Building a Sustainable Business
Develop a revenue-generating, cashflow-positive enterprise that can thrive independently.

Securing Venture Capital Funding
Raise investment capital to scale technology-driven ventures with national or global ambition.

Advancing to a Top-Tier Accelerator
Position ventures for entry into globally recognized programs such as Y Combinator, Techstars, or the Creative Destruction Lab.

Manufacturing and Laboratory Facilities, Our ISO 17025 and Health Canada certified analytical labs, GMP certified manufacturing facility permit us to streamline the product release process. No more searching for labs to test your product, stressing about coming up with the perfect formulation or worrying about product quality. You now get to commercialize your product sooner.

We make the development and manufacturing process of your natural health products as easy as it can be. From concept, to design and prototype, to final product and launch, we got you covered. Partnering with us assures your product’s consistent quality so you can focus on your business.

AbSPORU offers a wide range of services to support every step of your patient-oriented research journey. We can help you build relationships and engage patient partners, as well as formulate your research with Alberta’s learning health systems in mind. Our experts can also provide you with all the tools you need to design and execute your study, including accessing and analyzing the wealth of Alberta patient data available. We also can advise on accessing external services offered by other health partners across Canada. Summary of services: Service: Dataset feasibility, Pilot data extraction, Preparation of data access agreements, Data extraction, Data linking and merging.

Innovate Calgary has been the innovation transfer and business incubator centre for the University of Calgary for over 30 years, fostering entrepreneurship and bringing new technological discoveries to the world.

Whether you’re new to entrepreneurship, are ready to commercialize research, or are looking to fund a venture, Innovate Calgary gives you the programs, tools, and support you need to take the next right step.

The Innovate Calgary Tech Transfer Office (TTO) helps you commercialize and license your work while protecting your intellectual property.

GxPRA Consulting supports life sciences companies through the commercialization and post-market lifecycle of regulated products—such as pharmaceuticals, biologics, medical devices, IVDs, natural health products, cosmetics, and controlled substances—by helping define regulatory pathways and build compliant product and quality foundations. Their work commonly includes developing design files and testing strategies, implementing and maintaining quality management systems (QMS), preparing regulatory submissions and licences, supporting clinical trial development, and providing audits. They also assist with labeling/artwork review (e.g., IFUs), importation/distribution and warehousing considerations, stability study design, validation (equipment/software/process), vendor selection and qualification (including contract manufacturers), and staff training across GxP compliance areas.

QnR Associates is a Regulatory Affairs and Quality Assurance consulting firm that helps clients secure Health Canada and FDA market authorizations and build GMP-compliant operations to support commercial supply. They support a broad range of product types—including drugs, biologics, medical devices, natural health products, cosmetics, and medical marihuana (ACMPR). Their services span regulatory strategy and submissions (e.g., CTAs/IDEs, clinical protocol review for ICH E6 compliance, FDA/Health Canada pre-meetings) as well as quality systems and manufacturing support (e.g., process/cleaning validation support, batch record review, deviation/CAPA/change control, SOP and master batch record writing, investigations, and vendor/for-cause audits).

W21C is a research and innovation initiative based in the University of Calgary (UCalgary) and the Calgary Zone of Alberta Health Services (AHS). W21C conducts health systems research with the overarching mandate to improve patient safety and quality of care. Through this strategic research and innovation agenda, we hope to MAKE CARE BETTER for our communities, both now and in the future.

W21C infrastructure includes a state-of-the-art medical teaching unit at the Foothills Medical Centre in Calgary (Unit 36 in the Special Services Building), and new W21C Research and Innovation Centre at the Teaching, Research and Wellness (TRW) Building at the Cumming School of Medicine, UCalgary. A Healthcare Human Factors and Simulation Laboratory is also housed in the W21C Research and Innovation Centre. Since May 2004, W21C has served as a beta test-site for exemplary hospital design, approaches to the health care delivery and innovative medical technologies.

The mission of A-MEDICO is to develop new medical technologies with the communities they will serve, and implement new, sustainable, accelerated access pathways for the adoption of transformative medical device technology solutions.

Connecting existing but underutilized strengths, the network is driving innovations, creating new industry leaders, and strengthening Alberta’s economy.