Iain Begg


Managing Director, Innovation Partnerships

Office of the Vice-President, Research and Innovation

I am the Managing Director of Innovation Partnerships within the VPRI portfolio. I work with the team, on the one hand to help recognize, foster, and facilitate innovation development, and on the other, to promote and grow deep research-oriented relationships with partner organizations. We work hand-in-hand with the other driving groups of Innovation UBC to find ways of moving research into impact. In addition, I am the UBC Concierge for the Canadian Digital Technology Supercluster - connecting researchers, companies, and projects.

Contact me if:

You have innovation ideas you'd like to explore, partner organizations you'd like to create or deepen relationships with, or if you want to take advantage of the supercluster opportunity to further your research and engagement.

First Nations land acknowledegement

We acknowledge that UBC’s two main campuses are situated within the ancestral and unceded territory of the Musqueam people, and in the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan Nation and their peoples.



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