OCI-VIP/NSERC-Alliance Program: Double your research funding support with an Ontario SME partner – Feb. 10, 2021

The Ontario Centre for Innovation (OCI), formally OCE, has recently streamlined its popular research partnerships funding program, the Voucher for Innovation and Productivity (VIP), providing support to academic researchers working with Ontario companies. As provincial funding agency, OCI has also entered into an agreement with the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), its federal counterpart, providing the ability to match industry contributions from the SME sector (Small and Medium Enterprises, having fewer than 500 employees globally) with support from both federal and provincial agencies, matched to the same industry cash/in-kind contribution. This double-leveraging can be acquired through a single application process, managed by OCI.

At this information session, OCI personnel will outline how to take advantage of this opportunity to double the funding agencies’ contribution to your research project.

For further information, please see the internal Funding Opportunity page.

Presenters:

• Balinder Rai, Senior Business Development & Commercialization Manager, OCI
• Alejandra de Almeida, Deputy Director, Ontario Regional Office, NSERC