Mitacs congratulates the Government of Canada and the Honourable Michelle Rempel, Minister of State for Western Economic Diversification, for launching the Western Innovation (WINN) Initiative. The new initiative will enable small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to access funding to help them take a product from the R&D stage to market, from product testing and technology […]

Mitacs thanks Minister Duchesne and the Government of Quebec for a new $3 million investment that will allow graduate students and postdoctoral fellows to apply their expertise to business-related research challenges. This new funding will enable the FRQ – Mitacs Accelerate Quebec program to offer 600 additional research internships in Quebec for the year 2013-2014. […]

A report released today on the status of postdocs in Canada – the most comprehensive of its kind – shows that postdocs have two main concerns: they need to be better prepared for future careers and they want clarity and consistency in their administrative status and compensation at universities. The 2013 Canadian Postdoc Survey: Painting […]

Montreal – NEOMED, an organization whose mission is to bridge between academic research and the pharmaceutical industry in the drug development field, and Mitacs, an organization that is developing the next generation of innovators in Canada, are pleased to announce a new strategic partnership. Under this agreement, NEOMED will benefit from the Mitacs suite of […]

Montreal, Quebec – July 30, 2013 – Mitacs and the National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC-IRAP) have signed an agreement to help bring industry and academia together to boost innovation in the region. Support from NRC-IRAP will enable Mitacs to provide more opportunities to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Quebec to […]

Mitacs and the National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC-IRAP) have signed an agreement to help bring industry and academia together to boost innovation in the region. Support from NRC-IRAP will enable Mitacs to provide more opportunities to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Atlantic Canada to access university-based researchers to help […]

Dr. Arvind Gupta, CEO and Scientific Director of Mitacs, extends his congratulations to the new cabinet ministers appointed today by Prime Minister Stephen Harper.   We look forward to working with the new ministers, including the Hon. James Moore, Minister of Industry, the Hon. Greg Rickford, Minister of State for Science and Technology, the Hon. […]

Ottawa, ON – May 29, 2013 – Innovation is the key to Canada’s economic prosperity as agreed by panelists at a Mitacs forum in Ottawa yesterday. They also identified that one vital piece of the puzzle is missing: skilled R&D managers. “Business innovation is a driver of growth, productivity and competitiveness and it is easy […]

  Toronto, ON – Thursday, May 2, 2013 – Mitacs thanks the Government of Ontario for a new $10 million investment to develop the next generation of skilled research and development managers. This new funding will allow exceptional PhDs in Ontario to lead and manage an industry research project, promoting commercialization and economic benefit, while […]

HAMILTON, ON April 30, 2013 — A comprehensive report released today offers new insights into worries of graduate students and how universities can better help them find meaningful work. The report, entitled Beyond Labs and Libraries: Career Pathways for Doctoral Students, comes at a time when more and more students are pursuing graduate studies—generating potentially […]

Two young Nova Scotia researchers are getting help from businesses to turn their smart ideas into better health care and better products. Olga Hrytsenko and Marek Lipczak, both completing post-doctoral fellowships at Dalhousie University, are the first Nova Scotia recipients of the Mitacs Elevate Postdoctoral Fellowship program. Mitacs brings business and top researchers together to […]

  Vancouver, BC – March 21, 2013 – Mitacs commends the Government of Canada for new investments in skills training including $13M over two years for Mitacs Globalink, an international internship program. This new funding will enable an expansion of Mitacs Globalink and provide international research internships in countries around the world to Canadian undergraduate […]