Under the Industry-Academic Collaboration Program (IACP), OCE has programs in three classes:
Collaborative Commercialization programs address technical industry challenges through collaborative research connecting industry with Ontario’s publicly-funded research institutions. These programs include:
• Technical Problem Solving involves short-term projects between industry and academia that address specific technical challenges identified by industry.
• Collaborative Research supports collaborative projects with emphasis on significant technical challenges with demonstrated market-pull and potential impact for market development on a provincial, national or international scale.
• Market Readiness supports projects where there is an opportunity for a new start-up company or a new division of an existing firm to create new jobs.
OCE’s Talent programs prepare college and university graduates to hit the ground running in business and in industry, developing tomorrow’s workforce from college and university undergrads to graduate students to post doctoral. The five Talent programs are:
• Connections partners undergraduate and college students in science, engineering, and other technical programs with technology-based industry clients.
• Value-Added Personnel (VAP) provides entrepreneurship and business-skills training to Ontario science, technology and engineering students.
• Outreach Scholarship increases the impact of Ontario’s research and provides industry clients and entrepreneurs with access to a wider pool of knowledge and expertise.
• Entrepreneurship Development supports Ontario academic institutions to develop and run specialized project-based graduate programs in Entrepreneurship. This program also supports the best new entrepreneurs to come out of academia through the Martin Walmsley Award.
• First Job is a salary-sharing program for new science and technology graduates starting R&D jobs with Ontario technology-based companies.
Currently under development, the Technology Transfer Partnerships component will offer programs designed to accelerate the two-way flow of people and ideas between the research environment and business sector.
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