Joseph Turcotte, PhD, is an experienced intellectual property and commercialization advisor, start-up assistance organization manager, and award-winning intellectual property and innovation researcher and analyst. With a strong background in communication and culture, he has dedicated his career to exploring the critical roles that knowledge, information, data, and intellectual property play in knowledge-based and digital economies.

Turcotte has worked with entrepreneurs/inventors, start-ups, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), and entrepreneurship accelerators and incubators. He was the former Innovation Clinic Coordinator at IP Osgoode, where he ran Canada's largest pro bono IP legal clinic, and a senior editor for the IPilogue, an online review focused on intellectual property and technology law, coordinated by IP Osgoode at Osgoode Hall Law School.

He holds a PhD from the Communication & Culture Program (Politics & Policy) at York University and Ryerson University (Toronto, Canada) and studied an MA in Communication Studies, and a combined Honours BA in Communication Studies and Philosophy at Wilfrid Laurier University. Turcotte is also the Manager of IP & Client Solutions (Team Lead) at Heer Law - Intellectual Property Law and Litigation, where he utilises his past experience in Intellectual Property.