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At Mitacs, we embrace your innovation challenges, build ROI into your R&D strategy, think globally, and connect you with the right expertise for the right project at the right time

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How Mitacs can help you

Solving the Talent Challenge

Finding the right people with the knowledge and skill sets to solve your innovation challenges is key to your success. But talent alone is only part of the solution. Ensuring that you have the right people in place at each stage of your innovation roadmap is critical. At Mitacs, over 100 advisors are ready to support you at every stage of that roadmap, helping you identify the right academic expertise and recruit highly skilled talent.

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From Concept to Completion, Mitacs Embraces Your Innovation Challenges

Innovation is more than simply developing new ideas to launch new projects. Indeed, innovation comes in many forms: product innovation, process innovation, marketing innovation and organisational innovation — all of these are important signposts on your roadmap. At Mitacs, we can help guide you at every stage of your project to aid you in achieving your business goals.

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Expand Your Budget, Reduce the Risk

Depending on the scope of your projects, investment in R&D can run from thousands of dollars to millions of dollars and one way to leverage that investment is to seek funding. Mitacs can help. No matter the size of the project, Mitacs can work with you to ensure your budget goes further. And the bigger the budget, the more efficient the process becomes, while your contribution is reduced to 45% of the total cost of the project.

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Mitacs in Action

Mitacs’s research collaborations connect organizations with the skilled talent they need, and foster mutually beneficial partnerships between industry and academia.

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Dust-clogged rural roads and unstable ground can lead to accidents – and serious ecological damage can result. A Winnipeg company has figured out a solution.

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How do you test a technology that doesn’t yet exist? You pretend it does.

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Mitacs’s Project Innovation Experts
Lenny Freilich
Account Manager
Western Canada
604.250.0997

Lenny Freilich brings over 40 years of experience working within the high-tech industry to his role at Mitacs. With a background in data analytics and machine learning, high performance computing, and cybersecurity, he has held senior corporate and business development roles with Blackberry/RIM, Creo/Kodak, and IBM Global Services, as well as Product Management roles with Fujitsu Global. Lenny has also held partnership development roles with the University of British Columbia and the Ontario Centres of Excellence.

Lenny has worked in Canada, the U.S., Israel, Indonesia, India, and Belgium.

He completed an MBA and MSc (Computer Science) at the University of Toronto.

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Jillian Murray
Account Manager
Ontario
647.545.9704

Windsor, Ontario-born and raised, Jillian Hatnean received both her B.Sc. Hon. Biochemistry with Thesis (2006) and her PhD. in Chemistry (2011) from the University of Windsor and specialized in organometallic catalysis. She then undertook a postdoctoral fellowship (2013) at the University of Toronto with a focus on catalytic hydrogenation using frustrated Lewis pairs (FLPs).

Jillian has been with Mitacs since 2013 and is currently an Account Manager based in Toronto specializing in helping companies to develop research projects in biomanufacturing, life sciences, cannabis, and finance/risk management.

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Iman Yahyaie
Account Manager
Ontario
647.524.6785

Iman Yahyaie received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees, both in Electrical Engineering, in Tehran, Iran. In 2007, he moved to Canada to start a PhD in Electrical Engineering at the University of Manitoba and later joined the Centre for Chemical Innovation in Solar Fuels (CCI Solar) at Caltech as a research collaborator. Iman also completed a postdoctoral fellowship studying CMOS-compatible dynamic memory structures based on conducting polymer systems.

Since 2013, Iman has been part of the Mitacs team in different regions including Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Ontario, fostering collaborations between the private sector and academia.

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Sarah Fairlie
Account Manager
Ontario
647-231-3378

Sarah Fairlie is focused on supporting organizations and initiatives that deliver social benefit.

Prior to working with Mitacs Sarah developed and delivered funding programs in Ontario in a wide range of sectors from 5G Networks to greenhouse gas emissions reduction and helped to found and grow a social enterprise that secured over $1M in funding to educate communities about sustainable choices.

Sarah has a BSc in Atmospheric Environment and Air Quality from McGill University.

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Bernard Duval
Account Manager
National
438.340.6600

Bernard Duval is a seasoned technology transformation management senior advisor specializing in disruptive technologies such as 5G, 6G, quantum communications, future networks, next generation internet and edge cloud computing. With a robust background spanning 20+ years in information technology, e-commerce and communication sectors, Bernard excels in negotiations and partnership building, driving business agreements and innovations projects to fruition.

Bernard has facilitated numerous collaborative research initiatives between the industry leaders and universities, demonstrating his commitment to advancing technological frontiers. His close collaborations with connectivity giants like Ciena, VMware, Ericsson, and Microsoft underscore his dedication in shaping the digital landscape.

Enthusiastic about inclusivity and social impact, Bernard is a pioneer in advocating for the incorporation of Indigenous leadership and social innovation within the technology innovation sector. He believes in the power of diverse perspectives to shape innovative solutions and drive meaningful change. This commitment has led him to actively seek collaborations that bridge the gap between traditional knowledge and technological advancements.

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Sectors

Whether it’s building Canada’s 5G network, developing artificial intelligence (AI) technology or advancing the scope of clean technology, Mitacs can help businesses evolve in a rapidly changing landscape.

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Managing Innovation

At Mitacs, we support you throughout your innovation journey. From assessing your needs to deploying skilled post-secondary talent to finding the right solutions for your business, our team of advisors are here to help you succeed.

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Services

Executing your innovation strategy requires funds, networks, and markets — and the talent to accomplish all that. With over 20 years of experience in the innovation landscape, Mitacs can help you build capacity for research and development by connecting you to expertise not available in-house.

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Our Programs

Mitacs offers a variety of programs to maximize your budget and solve your organization’s research challenges with help from top-tier post-secondary talent.

Accelerate

Business

Accelerate helps partner organizations maximize their budgets, grow their research, and boost their innovation potential through internships that tap into the expertise and insight of highly skilled students and postdocs.

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Accelerate Fellowship

Business

Accelerate Fellowships help partner organizations optimize their budgets, enhance their research talent, and boost their innovation potential through internships that tap into the skills and expertise of top-level Master’s and PhD students.

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Business Strategy Internship

Business

BSI allows organizations of any size to tap into the expertise of top-ranked postsecondary students and recent graduates in order to solve business challenges.

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Elevate

Business

Elevate is an exclusive two-year opportunity that enables partner organizations to maximize their budgets, expand their networks, and achieve their innovation goals via access to the top-tier skills, insights, and talents of postdoctoral fellows.

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Mitacs Entrepreneur International

Business

Entrepreneur International offers a travel grant to Canadian start-ups that are housed in an incubator or accelerator linked to a post-secondary institution, enabling them to connect with host incubators abroad to explore business-development opportunities in international markets.

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Our Projects

Mitacs has fostered thousands of successful collaborations between organizations and researchers.

Open Projects

Work with top-ranked talent on collaborative research projects, and discover advanced solutions to your innovation challenges.

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Completed Projects

Explore a range of successful Mitacs projects that led to game-changing discoveries, collaborations, and initiatives across Canada.

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Mitacs Partners

The strong support from governments across Canada, international partners, universities, colleges, companies, and community organizations has enabled Mitacs to focus on the core idea that talent and partnerships power innovation — and innovation creates a better future.

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