Graduate Internship Program for Business Growth
Another hiring program, and probably the most popular, is the Accelerate Ontario program. As Ontario’s Graduate Research Internship Program, the goal is to connect high-quality expertise from the province’s universities with Ontario businesses. The partner company contributes $7,500 and the funds are matched by Accelerate Ontario through Government Canada. The benefits to the company are [...]
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FedDev Commercialization Initiative
Partnerships with SMEs & Universities/Colleges To encourage post-secondary institutions in southern Ontario to increase partnerships with SMEs and undertake pre-commercialization and applied research development expertise projects, the Federal Economic Development Agency (FedDev Ontario) have provide up to $15 million in funding to accelerate the collaboration. The greater collaboration will enhance innovation, improve productivity and competitiveness [...]
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Upcoming Business Coaching Events
Mentor Works Ltd. offers workshops and business coaching events throughout Ontario, including Toronto, Kitchener, Waterloo, Guelph, Cambridge, and Burlington. Led by Bernadeen McLeod, these events give participants the chance to experience what this kind of corporate improvement process is like and see how it could best be applied to their business and personal lives. Upcoming [...]
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Yves Landry Update on Government Training/Innovation Funds
Yves Landry Training initiative for training of teams and productivity improvements has been widely recognized in our region since FEDDEV supported an intake of funds for Southern Ontario SME’s in late Nov 2009. The current situation is that the waiting queue continues as the last application that was accepted or given approval was submitted on [...]
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How to Hire Students and Graduates – KW/Cambridge/Guelph
Using the two most popular government funding mechanisms for hiring (see previous blogs) to grow your business, it may appear complicated or too good to be true at first glance. But SMEs have great potential to expand our horizons. I recommend contacting our local Conestoga college and Ken Buitenhuis [kbuitenhuis@conestogac.on.ca] for support on how to provide small business owners [...]
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