NSERC I2I Grants
Funds university-industry partnerships in Canada that transfer research outputs into practical innovation.
NSERC Idea to Innovation (I2I) Grants are administered by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada to accelerate the pre-competitive development of university-generated intellectual property and its transfer to Canadian companies. The program runs four intake windows per year — January, March, June, and September — giving university researchers quarterly opportunities to app…
Pre-competitive development and transfer of university-generated intellectual property in natural sciences and engineering to Canadian companies, through Phase I (fully NSERC-funded) and Phase II (cost-shared) grants.
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