MITACS Inc.

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Since 1999, MITACS has played a leadership role in linking businesses , government and not-for-profits with over 50 of Canada's universities to develop cutting-edge tools to support the growth of our knowledge-based economy. Over 60% of our business stakeholders are small or medium sized enterprises. Our cutting-edge programs focus on developing and attracting a new generation of Canadian researchers and entrepreneurs through skills training & entrepreneur workshops , technical training events , graduate and post-doctoral internships and outreach activities . Our flagship program is known as MITACS Accelerate. It is Canada's premiere graduate and post-doctoral internship program and has played a leadership role in creating over 1500 internships in all industry sectors and academic disciplines. Whether in engineering, psychology, business, or medicine, MITACS Accelerate has proven to be Canada's most successful internship program offering students the opportunity to apply their research to real-world issues. Developed in 2008, our ground-breaking Globalink program is now connecting some of India's best and brightest minds with Canadian business leaders, professors and students. Over 100 undergraduate students from India's prestigious technology institutes were selected to participate in Globalink 2010. They were based at universities in British Columbia, Ontario and New Brunswick, and have since formed new and long-lasting linkages with Canada and all whom they met here. The program is helping to brand Canada as a top destination for the globe's brightest minds and will be expanding to other regions soon. Through the Networks of Centres of Excellence (NCE) program, MITACS funds mathematical sciences research projects throughout the country, focusing on five key economic sectors: biomedical & health ; environment & natural resources ; information processing ; risk & finance ; and communication, networks & security . MITACS has a proven track record of supporting leading research, while connecting Canadian businesses and organizations to the next generation of highly skilled knowledge workers. We help businesses and organizations easily access advanced university expertise so that they can develop and commercialize the products of tomorrow today. MITACS: Making research count

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