Mitacs Accelerate Entrepreneur
Funds student entrepreneur placements with shared support models and commercialization.
Mitacs Accelerate Entrepreneur is a variant of the Mitacs Accelerate internship program in which the industry partner is the applicant's own incorporated startup rather than an external organisation. It is designed for student and postdoctoral entrepreneurs who hold an ownership stake in an incorporated company and are seeking to use a university-based internship to advance the core technology or …
Funds student-founder research internships at incorporated Canadian start-ups housed in approved incubators, advancing the start-up's core technology through university-industry collaboration at $15,000 per unit on a rolling basis.
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