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Ontario Research Fund

• Funding for project operating costs, such as researcher's salaries (through The Research Excellence Program and the Ontario Research Fund - Global Leadership Round in Genomics & Life Sciences (GL² Competition) and for new research infrastructure, such as lab equipment (through the Research Infrastructure program).

Early Researcher Awards

• Funding of up to $100,000 for promising, recently appointed Ontario researchers to help them build their research teams of graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and research associates.

Innovation Demonstration Fund

• Financial support of up to 50% of eligible costs to help Ontario companies with the commercialization and initial demonstration of their innovative technologies.

Research Excellence Program

• The Ontario Research Fund Research Excellence (ORF-RE) program promotes research excellence in Ontario by supporting transformative, internationally significant research of strategic value to the province.

Ontario Water Innovation Award

• The one–time Ontario Water Innovation Award recognizes excellence, leadership, entrepreneurship and outstanding performance in a company that is developing a commercially successful water technology related to the conservation and/or treatment of water.

Early Researcher Awards

• Funding of up to $100,000 for promising, recently appointed Ontario researchers to help them build their research teams of graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and research associates.

Green Focus on Innovation and Technology (GreenFIT)

• Green innovation and technological leadership will be the engines of Ontario's New Green Economy and the focus of a new and exciting Government of Ontario strategy called the Green Focus on Innovation and Technology (GreenFIT).
  
  The Government of Ontario is committed to leveraging Ontario's buying power to make Ontario more competitive, innovative, and sustainable. Through GreenFIT, the government is supporting existing and new green technology companies as they introduce innovative and sustainable solutions into the local and global marketplace.

Green Schools Pilot Initiative

• The Green Schools Pilot Initiative provides Ontario cleantech companies with an opportunity to demonstrate the viability of their technology with a well-known reference customer: Ontario’s schools. The initiative seeks to identify, demonstrate and test innovative green products, technologies and services that currently have either no exposure or limited exposure in the Ontario school system. For participating companies, it’s an ideal platform for real-world demonstration of innovative green technologies, helping them to expand into the local, North American, and global markets.

The Health Technology Exchange – HTX.ca

• Helps Ontario's scientists, engineers, and entrepreneurs commercialize their ideas into innovative medical and assistive technology products.

Innovation Demonstration Fund

• Financial support of up to 50% of eligible costs to help Ontario companies with the commercialization and initial demonstration of their innovative technologies.

International Strategic Opportunities Program (ISOP)

• Funding of up to $150,000 over three years, for new strategic international collaborations.

The Investment Accelerator Fund

• The Investment Accelerator Fund helps eligible start-up companies develop their technology and gain entrepreneurial expertise to bring their product or service to market.

Ontario-China Research and Innovation Fund (OCRIF)

• Supports collaborations between researchers and innovative companies in Ontario and China, to generate positive economic, technological, scientific and social impacts for both jurisdictions. Applications are now being accepted under the Round Two Call for Proposals, which focuses on the priority areas of hydrogen fuel cells, stem cells, neuroscience and water and water-related technologies.

Ontario Centres of Excellence

• Bridging the gap between academia and industry, these centres bring universities, industry, and government together to help turn science and technology into successful business endeavours.

Ontario Emerging Technologies Fund (OETF)

• The Ontario Emerging Technologies Fund will co-invest — with qualified venture capital funds and other private investors — directly into companies working within the focus areas defined by Ontario’s Innovation Agenda.

Ontario Innovation Agenda

• Right now, somewhere in a lab in Windsor or Toronto, or Ottawa -- or in the many places in between – bright Ontarians are inventing our future.

Ontario Institute for Cancer Research

• An independent, not-for-profit organization bringing together multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional collaborations focusing on translating research findings into programs, technologies, and therapies.

Ontario's Life Sciences Commercialization Strategy

• Ontario's $161-million Life Sciences Commercialization Strategy combines existing and new Ontario life sciences initiatives into a comprehensive and coordinated plan.

Ontario Network of Excellence

• The Ontario Network of Excellence is an innovation system that is responsive to the needs of Ontario’s world-leading researchers, entrepreneurs and innovation-based companies. It is designed to provide a comprehensive suite of programs and services across the full continuum from idea-to-market. These programs will be provincially supported and regionally delivered, ensuring that everyone in the province has access to the same high quality resources and expertise, regardless of location.

Ontario Research Fund

• Funding for project operating costs, such as researcher's salaries (through The Research Excellence Program and the Ontario Research Fund - Global Leadership Round in Genomics & Life Sciences (GL² Competition) and for new research infrastructure, such as lab equipment (through the Research Infrastructure program).

Ontario Tax Exemption for Commercialization (OTEC)

• OTEC is aimed at supporting innovation in Ontario’s economy by encouraging the commercialization of intellectual property which has been developed by qualifying Canadian universities or colleges. OTEC applies to newly established corporations in priority areas, offering a refund of corporate income tax and corporate minimum tax paid for a qualifying corporation’s first ten taxation years.

Post-Doctoral Fellowship (PDF) Program

• The Post-Doctoral Fellowship (PDF) program provides outstanding scientists with two-year fellowships at Ontarios research institutions.

Premier's Innovation Awards

• For the past four years, Ontario recognized world-class innovators who changed the face of medicine, health technology, cleantech, communications technology and digital media.