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    Job creation

    Atomic Cartoons internship helps undergrad follow her dreams

    August 2021
    Mitacs’s Business Strategy Internship program connected Emily Carr University student and animator Lia Fabre-Dimsdale with the opportunity of a lifetime – to work at Vancouver-based Atomic Cartoons on the show Molly of Denali.
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    Commercialization

    Wearable tech takes the heat off wildfire-fighting pilots

    April 2018
    The summer of 2017 brought unprecedented wildfires to BC’s Cariboo region. Hundreds of ground and aerial firefighters were brought in to battle the blazes.
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    Social innovation

    Kids with heart disease hit the court

    March 2018
    Diagnosed with a congenital heart defect (CHD) at age nine, Mitacs researcher Angelica Blais knows what it’s like to feel like you have to sit on the sidelines.
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    Business ROI

    Mystery or romance? How Big Data can help you pick your next book

    January 2018
    Digital book sales in Canada account for just under 20 percent of the billion dollar market, and close to half of readers say they’ve read at least one e-publication in the last year. For Toronto-based Rakuten Kobo Inc., an e-book retailer that sells to 190 countries worldwide, staying ahead of the game in the digital market is top of mind.
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    Business ROI

    'Scan-to-skate' technology brings customized comfort to the ice

    January 2017
    Although Daniel’s expertise as an industrial designer could inform some components, the team needed Anne-Laure’s research background to apply engineering principles to illuminate why certain feet worked best with certain skates.
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    Entrepreneurship

    Cracking the genetic code of high performance athletes

    October 2016
    “I don’t think I realized I was an entrepreneur at first,” says Jeremy Koenig, founder of Halifax-based genomics start-up, Athletigen. “But then as I got more experience, I started to realize how my background in research could be an asset to me in founding a company — so I did just that.”
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    Entrepreneurship

    Shielding the brain from injury

    May 2016
    “Mitacs was the first organization to believe in us... Without Mitacs’ support, I believe that we could not have gotten to the stage that we are, with BrainShield almost ready to hit the market and revolutionize the concept of helmet protection.”
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    Business ROI

    Cultivating children’s creativity

    February 2013
    Kibooco CEO Molly Schneeberg described Mitacs as a “matchmaker” that provides small businesses like hers access to matching funds, knowledge and networks that aren’t otherwise within reach.
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    Business ROI

    At the heart of the Quartier des spectacles’ projections

    January 2012
    The new Quartier des spectacles at the centre of Montréal offers a potential which the company Réalisations-Montréal hopes to help fulfill. “We are in the business of ideas which apply to show business, entertainment and resorts”, explains Realisations.net president Roger Parent.

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