In today's global marketplace, Canadian manufacturers' ability to compete with firms around the world increasingly depends on their capability to generate viable product ideas and translate them into commercial success. Product design, research and development (PDR&D) is essential to drive commercialization and growth in the Canadian manufacturing sector. Oligomaster is PDR&D company maintaining a reliable system for delivering trusted chemical analysis and material development, situated in beautiful Hamilton, Ontario. With access to multiple lab facilities and a large connection of industry and academic networks, they are able to work with clients and process a cycle of continuous improvement over time with iterative feedback and recurring input from development team members as well as executives, sales and marketing groups, and production teams. The process involves four stages: *product idea generation*; *product selection*; *product development*; and *launch*.Oligomaster's main goal is to bring innovation to the polymer science industry by catapulting lab research into large scale industrialization. Their main area of expertise is the polymer field: plastics and elastomers, bioplastics, and coatings. They work with many industrial collaborators on new formulation and process improvements of plastics for construction and transportation equipment, as well as on going academic research and industrial work in green additives and bio-based recycled plastics with collaborators like DuPont, Xerox, Oleotek, Lambton College and McMaster University,