Elicia Maine


Elicia Maine is a Canadian academic. She was the founding educational coordinator for New Ventures BC, and the founding Academic Director of Invention to Innovation, an award-winning graduate program in science & technology commercialization offered in traditional and online formats. Within Simon Fraser University's Beedie School of Business, she serves as Associate Vice President, Knowledge Mobilization & Innovation, providing oversight of SFU Innovates.
Maine serves on the Board of Directors for the Foresight Cleantech Accelerator and Innovate BC., on the Princeton University Dean for Research Innovation & Entrepreneurship Council and on the Mitacs Research Council.
Her research interests include science innovation, science & technology entrepreneurship, technology-market matching, and innovation policy. Maine was honoured with the 2022 Trailblazer Award in Innovation Policy by the Canadian Science Policy Centre.
She is the head of a Simon Fraser University Beedie School of Business to help students convert research findings into tangible products that just recently received $22.9M from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada’s Lab to Market program.

Awards

Selected publications

  • Park, A., Goudarzi, A., Yaghmaie, P., Thomas, V. J., & Maine, E.. Rapid response through the entrepreneurial capabilities of academic scientists. Nature Nanotechnology, 17, 802-807. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-022-01103-6
  • Maine, E., & Garnsey, E.. Commercializing generic technology: The case of advanced materials ventures. Research Policy, 35, 375-393. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2005.12.006
  • Maine, E., Soh, P. H., & Dos Santos, N.. The role of entrepreneurial decision-making in opportunity creation and recognition. Technovation, 39, 53-72. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.technovation.2014.02.007