Purpose: In partnership with Canadian academic institutions, Mitacs is pleased to offer the Business Strategy Internship (BSI). The award provides either $10,000 or $15,000 per intern to allow them to undertake a four-month internship project with a partner organization in Canada. Interns will work with their academic supervisor to co-design a project with their partner organization to work on the organization’s innovation activities, helping them improve their products, processes, or services

The BSI program aims to:

• Support innovation to generate knowledge and its transfer between academic and non-academic sectors
• Strengthen the innovation capabilities of partner organizations
• Support the creation and ownership of intellectual property in Canada
• Promote collaboration between sectors by reducing the risk for companies to engage in innovation
• Provide work-integrated learning and professional skills training to increase employability of post-secondary students
• Ensure and promote equitable access by underrepresented groups to foster inclusive innovation