Ontario Centre of Innovation
The Ontario Centre of Innovation (OCI) works with government, industry and academia to commercialize innovation to support projects that create jobs and make Ontario companies more competitive globally.
Learn about OCI’s partnership funding opportunities:
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Collaborate 2 Commercialize
Collaborate 2 Commercialize (C2C) supports research partnerships between post-secondary institutions and Ontario companies.
- Timeline: six to 12 months
- Maximum funds available: $150,000
- Minimum leverage required: 1:1
- Approximate review time: eight to ten weeks
Collaborate 2 Commercialize-NSERC Alliance Program
In the C2C program, OCI and NSERC jointly support research and development (R&D) between post-secondary institutions and Ontario companies to drive economic development and commercialization. It is expected that the projects will generate economic benefits for companies in Ontario, which may include job creation/retention, new revenue generation, investment attraction, cost savings and/or value chain development.
- Timeline: project funded for up to 12 months
- Maximum funds available: individual proposals can request $20,000 up to $30,000 from NSERC (Alliance grant) and $20,000 up to $30,000 from OCI Voucher for Innovation and Productivity (VIP), with a corresponding $20,000 to $30,000 contribution (cash + in-kind) from the industry partner (at least 50% must be cash provided to the academic institution)
- Minimum leverage required: 1:3
- Approximate review time: four to 16 weeks to process jointly
- Eligibility:
- Canadian University researchers eligible to receive NSERC funds may apply.
- Industry partners must be a for-profit small or medium-sized enterprise (SME) organization with Canadian R&D and/or manufacturing operations related directly to the project and the capability to exploit the research results to create economic benefits.
- Industry partner must have been in operation for at least two years.
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