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Website and Administrative Organization(s):   Ontario Centres of Excellence Research Program
Ontario Centres of Excellence
Relevance to Implementation of a TRM: Program or service that is directly targeted to the funding or support of large, new and/or strategic advanced technology initiatives.
Industry: All Industries
Location: Ontario
Objective(s): The Research Program is focused on meeting the competitive needs of Ontario industry by tapping into the remarkable potential for Ontario colleges, universities and research hospitals to act as generators of innovation. It consists of four targeted initiatives:
  1. Interact: Research collaborations that create new industry-academic relationships.
  2. Proof of Concept: Feasibility studies that test an idea to mitigate the risk of further research investments.
  3. Champions of Innovation: Research projects that develop disruptive technologies with the potential to create new markets and form the basis for new start-up companies.
  4. Collaborative Research: Research collaborations between industry and academia that move technologies from the lab to the marketplace.
Focus:
  1. Financing
  2. Primary Research
  3. Pre-commercialization Technology Development
Eligibility: Eligible applicants: researchers at Ontario colleges, universities and research hospitals
Value: Project contribution is $13 500 to $50 000 depending on the program,
Application Process: Please see Contact OCE.