CANADIAN BUSINESSES HAVE AMBITIOUS INNOVATION PLANS 

– AND MITACS CAN ASSIST IN ACHIEVING THEM

AT MITACS WE WORK WITH YOU TO BRING YOUR IDEAS TO MARKET

$10,000 or $15,000 awards enable the brightest students to help you reach your business goals

Leverage your R+D/Innovation budgets

We create an easy & transparent financial process

We provide you with access to expertise not available in-house

YOUR KEY BENEFITS

The innovation you need to grow your business requires time, talent, and budget.
Mitacs can help you maximize your investment, making your budget go further, and helping you achieve the best possible ROI.

With 14,000 collaborations and over 80 innovation project experts, Mitacs is a leader in Canada’s innovation ecosystem. No matter your business or sector, we embrace your innovation challenges.

• An 80-member business development team, embedded at Canadian post-secondary institutions, identifies the right expertise to address your business challenges
• College, undergraduate, and graduate talent to undertake strategic analyses of your operations
  
• Leverage your budget: your money goes further
• Projects are scalable and can be multi-disciplinary and leverage several interns

WHO WE ARE

HOW WE HELP YOU ACHIEVE YOUR GOALS

SUCCESS STORIES

Across Canada, businesses and organizations that grappled with the impact of COVID-19 got support from an unexpected resource: top local business students. 

Award from Mitacs helped Indigenous art student land an internship with one of Canada’s leading animation houses. Lia Fabre-Dimsdale helped animate the award-winning children’s cartoon Molly of Denali.

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WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW  

Companies and not-for-profit organizations – are you prioritizing innovation as you jockey for growth in an increasingly competitive environment? Do you have the right tools? Do you have the resources you need? Are you using those resources in the most efficient way?

Mitacs has you covered!

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A $10K or $15K award enables the brightest students – from college students to undergrads, grads, postdocs, and even recent grads – to undertake a collaborative internship with businesses or eligible not-for-profit organizations (NFPs). The potential is limitless, whether it’s streamlining processes, commercializing your technology, developing new business models, improving public services or addressing social or environmental issues – students apply their technical expertise to business challenges to support an organization's innovation activities. The award is open to students across all disciplines, from law to STEM to social sciences and humanities.

• $10K for a four-month project: your contribution is only $5K 
  
• $15K for a four-month project: you pay only $7.5K. Of the $15K, the participants can use up to $5K toward specified project costs or to top-up the student stipend
• Apply any time for multiple projects
• Open to all businesses and eligible not-for-profit organizations

SO, WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?

"From an immigrant’s perspective who is very new in this market, there is nothing more helpful than getting a locally trained graduate or student to provide support in business strategy. As a new entrepreneur myself, I lack operational knowledge, specifically in expanding and scaling profitability. I may be able to start an innovative venture on my own, but tapping into Mitacs’s BSI program is a gateway to bigger possibilities and opportunities."

Lian Delos Reyes

Founder, Milksta Inc.