Participants in one or more of the following Mitacs programs as a college, undergraduate, master’s, or doctoral student, or postdoctoral researcher:
- Accelerate, Elevate, Globalink, Entrepreneur International, or Business Strategy Internship
- Training (formerly Step): completion of at least two Training courses and demonstration of how this experience inspired the entrepreneurship
Company eligibility
The company must have commercialized its product or service, or be in the pre-commercialization stage, and must also meet the following criteria:
- The business is registered within Canada as a corporation or cooperative
- The business cannot be owned by, or a subsidiary of, a parent corporation
- The operations of the business will benefit Canadians or the Canadian economy, for example, through the creation of jobs, intellectual property, or innovative products or services
The applicant must be a founder or member of the senior leadership team (e.g., Chief Technology Officer, etc.) of the company for which they are applying.