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 (i2I), 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 project 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 Person of the Year Nomination, BC Tech Association, 2016 TD Canada Trust Distinguished Teaching Award, Beedie School of Business, 2017 B.C.'s Most Influential Women 2018: Stem Stars, BC Business Top Educator Award, BC Cleantech Awards, 2021 Trailblazer Award, Innovation Policy, Canadian Science Policy Conference, 2022

Selected publications

Park, A., Goudarzi, A., Yaghmaie, P., Thomas, V. J., & Maine, E. (2022). Rapid response through the entrepreneurial capabilities of academic scientists. Nature Nanotechnology, 17(8), 802-807. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-022-01103-6 Maine, E., & Garnsey, E. (2006). Commercializing generic technology: The case of advanced materials ventures. Research Policy, 35(3), 375-393. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2005.12.006 Maine, E., Soh, P. H., & Dos Santos, N. (2015). 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