To view this page ensure that Adobe Flash Player version 9.0.124 or greater is installed. . Contract between industry and one professor; . Intellectual Property: NSERC guidelines, IP belongs to party which contributed or joint IP, industry receives royalty-free non-revocable licence, exclusive in its field of operation; . Management: Typically 3-4 years in duration, trains ~5 Graduate students; . Works well to build/maintain critical mass in University lab, in addition to other types of funded research.
Technology Development – Montreal Aerospace Institute Stages . Involves most Montreal aerospace firms with Concordia, ETS, Laval, McGill, Polytechnique and Sherbrooke; . Management: run by a University/Industry board; . Intellectual Property: already negotiated: ownership to Industry; . Program is used by Strategic Technology Office as demonstration programwithin Core Engineering: . Strategic technology paid stages offered in Core Engineering Departments . Enables departments to foster ties with students/universities; . Program often successful: Departments extend internships with their own budgets;
Collaborative Research and Development Technology Development – Bourses en Milieu de Pratique (BMP) . Master (2 years) and Ph.D. (3 years) programs to be performed mostly in industry, through joint university-industry student supervision; . Subjects defined by academia or industry; . Industry commits to 1/3 of the student stipend, with provincial and federal governments providing the same amount each; . Intellectual Property negotiated following topic ownership (NSERC rules for Ph.D.)
. For Industry: increase innovation capability by hiring staff trained for research
Collaborative Research and Development Technology Development – MITACS Internships (Accelerate Canada) . Company pays . with government matching the other half; stage can be extended to one year if necessary . Post-graduate students only; . Very low application overhead, response within 1 month; . Intellectual Property generally to Industry ; . Usually works best as technology transfer from students working on other R&D projects, at the end of their studies. Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex |