InnoTech Spotlight: Navigating Scale-Up Challenges—September 2025

InnoTech Spotlight: Navigating Scale-Up Challenges—September 2025

Technology and Innovation Analysis
Pages:15 pages20 min read

Author: Erin Rose, Reetika Rana

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This Spotlight Series case study examines CelluForce Inc., an advanced biomaterials company. Here, we explore the challenges of bringing scientific breakthroughs to market and scaling them, including intellectual property protection, talent development, and partnerships.

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Navigating Scale-up Challenges: Innovation and Technology Spotlight–A Case Study

In this case study, we examine CelluForce Inc., an advanced biomaterials company. Here, we explore the challenges of bringing scientific breakthroughs to market and scaling them, including intellectual property protection, talent development, and partnerships

Did government support provide the patient capital CelluForce needed for its early growth and scaling up? Did this high-tech manufacturer find the Canadian partners it needed to grow? Or did it resort to international collaborations and overseas markets? What industrial strategies and support systems do we need to strengthen Canada’s leadership in advanced manufacturing and help homegrown breakthrough deep-tech innovations commercialize and scale?

Key take-aways
About the innovation and technology spotlight series
Company profile: CelluForce
Establishing a new market
Embracing change
Building an innovation ecosystem
Scaling through partnerships
Government support: faster funding, stronger results
The road ahead
Questions CelluForce’s story raises for Canada
Methodology

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