Mitacs Programs for Businesses

Benefits

Launching your innovation projects requires time, talent, and budget. With over 20 years of experience helping businesses succeed, Mitacs has the funding and access to resource networks that will allow you to achieve your business goals.

Realize your innovation potential

Working with Mitacs lets you optimize your budget, enhance your R&D, maximize your ROI, and secure the highly skilled talent your business needs to succeed. Whether it’s recruiting top-ranked Canadian and international postsecondary researchers, tapping into funding streams, or providing access to an extensive innovation network, Mitacs has fostered thousands of game-changing collaborations between industry and academia. 

With more than 20 years of experience in the innovation ecosystem, Mitacs works with companies to evaluate their needs, access funding, and secure exactly the right resources, leading them to implement effective strategies to fuel innovation and take the next groundbreaking technology, product, or service to market.

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Explore our programs!

Mitacs offers a variety of exciting opportunities for collaborative fellowships and internships, which can help your organization bring innovation to life.

Innovation Deployment

Where Canada’s innovation ecosystem accelerates productivity

These six programs facilitate mutually beneficial partnerships between industry and academia, and provide exciting opportunities for the tangible results of these collaborations to be deployed into the market.

By supporting companies with access to talent, technology, and strategic partnerships, Mitacs can help you solve real-world industry challenges, commercialize your research, compete on a global scale, and create economic value for Canada.

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Accelerate

Business

Accelerate helps partner organizations maximize their budgets, grow their research, and boost their innovation potential through internships that tap into the expertise and insight of highly skilled students and postdocs.

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Accelerate Fellowship

Business

Accelerate Fellowships help partner organizations optimize their budgets, enhance their research talent, and boost their innovation potential through internships that tap into the skills and expertise of top-level Master’s and PhD students.

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Accelerate International

Business

Accelerate International helps organizations optimize their budgets, enhance their research capability, and expand their innovation horizons through exclusive bilateral collaborations with interns and academic institutions in Canada and abroad.

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Business Strategy Internship

Business

BSI allows organizations of any size to tap into the expertise of top-ranked postsecondary students and recent graduates in order to solve business challenges.

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Elevate

Business

Elevate is an exclusive two-year opportunity that enables partner organizations to maximize their budgets, expand their networks, and achieve their innovation goals via access to the top-tier skills, insights, and talents of postdoctoral fellows.

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Mitacs Entrepreneur International

Business

Entrepreneur International offers a travel grant to Canadian start-ups that are housed in an incubator or accelerator linked to a post-secondary institution, enabling them to connect with host incubators abroad to explore business-development opportunities in international markets.

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