SOVAR'S MISSION is to generate economic and social development by accelerating the emergence, development and deployment of responsible technological and social innovations stemming from cutting-edge research. Working in close collaboration with our academic and research partners, SOVAR's mandate is to: - Identify high-potential innovation projects - Raise awareness of researchers and graduate students about market opportunities - Seeking companies that have innovation needs - Assess and select the most promising projects - Facilitate the transfer of innovations from the lab to market, by offering personalized expertise and support to inventors and entrepreneurs to advance the development, commercialization and deployment of promising innovations and solutions for the society