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By CanadianSME Team It’s natural for small- and medium-sized businesses to cut back to the essentials during an economic crisis like the one we’re experiencing right now. Yet SMEs that find a way to innovate and ramp up investment in R&D when their competitors are retreating are more likely to be Canada’s entrepreneurial success stories […]

Charlottetown, PEI — Strengthening research, innovation, and skill development for future prosperity, and supporting Prince Edward Island youth are essential for the province to advance through and beyond COVID-19. In light of the current pandemic, driving innovation has become increasingly important to stimulate economic recovery. Innovation PEI has committed to furthering this agenda for the […]

Specialized knowledge and skills to advance innovation, policy, and local projects Vancouver, BC — Thanks to the Government of Canada and the provincial and territorial governments, municipalities can now partner with Mitacs, a not-for-profit organization that fosters growth and innovation by solving organizational challenges with research solutions from colleges and universities. Through Mitacs internship programs, […]

By Kayla Isabelle and John Hepburn As Canada rebuilds a stronger economy in the coming months and years, many individuals and organizations will have a role to play. But a select few—our entrepreneurial disruptors and innovators—will make an outsized contribution. The efforts and successes of these creative thinkers will have far-reaching impacts. As we plan […]

Skills Development Minister McNaughton visits small business leading R&D with emerging local talent in support of the future of innovation in the province Toronto, ON — The world’s first end-to-end Textile ComputingTM company, Myant, welcomed Ontario Minister of Labour, Training and Skills Development Monte McNaughton to its manufacturing facility in Etobicoke to showcase their R&D […]

As COVID-19 brings unprecedented challenges, special funding drives R&D Vancouver, BC — Canada’s more than 1.2 million small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) contribute substantially to our country’s economic growth, innovation, and job creation. Defined as companies with fewer than 500 employees, 99.8 percent of Canada’s employers are SMEs. Generating approximately 54.9 percent of Canada’s GDP […]

Mitacs and Mental Health Research Canada offer internships to improve mental health services Toronto, ON — Mitacs and Mental Health Research Canada (MHRC) are partnering to support the development of the next generation of mental health researchers. The collaboration will provide funding for master’s students from eligible institutions across Canada to engage in innovative and […]

By Derrick Penner Vancouver startup has devised a system that marries artificial intelligence and big data with the age-old craft of wine making that they bet will save British Columbia’s wineries thousands of hours of labour and millions of dollars. Read here…

Research innovations can come more quickly thanks to support for college highly qualified personnel Vancouver, BC — Mitacs is partnering with Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) through the Tri-Agency College and Community Innovation (CCI) program to expedite applied, research-based solutions that leverage the highly qualified personnel (HQP) — students and/or postdoctoral […]

Since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic on March 11, 2020, children with neurodevelopmental disabilities and their families have faced unprecedented challenges in accessing supports from a home base. Navigating this new normal has called for new ways of delivering services and supports. To fast-track solutions, Mitacs and Kids Brain Health Network (KBHN) […]

Mitacs and All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) pair graduate students to Canadian companies Vancouver, BC — Representatives of India and Canada expanded their existing partnership today that extends student mobility and enhances research collaborations between academia and industry. The new agreement between All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and Mitacs enables 30 […]

Mitacs and SFU’s Invention to Innovation (i2I) helps graduate researchers across Canada develop an entrepreneurial mindset and become champions of innovation Vancouver, BC — Mitacs and the Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser University (SFU Beedie) have renewed a partnership to offer the Invention to Innovation (i2I) program for graduate students. Over seven months, […]