Canadian Higher Education IP Commercialization Obstacles Survey

Statistics Canada's dataset reports obstacles encountered during intellectual property commercialization by colleges, universities, and other higher education institutions in Canada. It likely contains survey responses on obstacles faced during the process and the most significant obstacle identified. The dataset was last updated on March 17, 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze institutional barriers to IP commercialization based on reported obstacles
• Compare the prevalence of different obstacle types across institution categories
• Identify the most significant commercialization challenges based on survey responses

Strengths

• Data is provided by Statistics Canada, a national statistical agency
• Dataset is licensed under OGL-CA-2.0 for open use
• Available in multiple formats including CSV, XML, and HTML

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download

Provenance

Source

Statistics Canada

Collection Method

Survey responses from higher education institutions

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-17 12:51:05.653861; freshness should be verified

Geography

Canada