Duncan Jones

For over 30 years, Duncan has been involved in the commercialization of new technologies primarily in the Life Sciences. He has worked with many inventors, especially University professors and their students assisting them in bringing their ideas to market. He has worked in a major biopharmaceutical company, as a venture capitalist and angel investor, with the technology transfer teams at each of Ontario's Universities, and led a technology incubator (ICube). 

Duncan also manages Hexagon Innovating, a consulting firm focused on the fuzzy front end of new product development, sourcing and in-licensing technology, performing technology and intellectual property reviews, doing market research and competitive intelligence, developing business models and strategy, partnering, fundraising, as well as project and portfolio management. He maintains an active blog on innovation at ​www.hexagon-innovating.com. 

He has also taught and continues to lecture on entrepreneurship, project management and the commercialization of biotechnology. Currently, that includes IMI302-Business Plans and Project Management, IMI2003-Project Management, IMI3001-Biocommercialization, BTC1820-Agriculture and Industrial Biotech, and BTC1860-Biologics.

Duncan holds a Bachelor's of Science (Chemistry and Biochemistry), a Master's of Science (Biochemistry) and a Master's of Business Administration all from the University of Toronto. In addition, he is a Project Management Professional (PMP). 

Duncan is currently teaching:

• BTC1600H & BTC1610H: Biopartnering I & II
• BTC1820H: Biotechnology in Agriculture & Natural Products
• IMI2003H: Project Management: Practice and Tools
• IMI3001H: Biocommercialization I: Analysis of Technology Driven Innovation with Adjunct Professor Tim Lee
• IMI302H5S: Managing Projects, Operations & Preparing a Business Plan