Lab to Market grants

Lab to Market grants support post-secondary institutions and their affiliates, including research hospitals and other eligible research centres, colleges, and college centres for the transfer of technologies (CCTT) in creating and sustaining networks dedicated to developing and delivering entrepreneurial skills training. For Lab to Market grants, these training networks must include at least two post-secondary institutions, although more extensive networks, with a broad range of member institutions, are highly encouraged. These grants support collaboration between post-secondary institutions and various organizations from the private, public and not-for-profit sectors. Lab to Market grants are designed to equip researchers and highly qualified personnel (HQP) with essential tools, resources and knowledge to transform their academic research into innovations ready for a variety of organizations from all sectors, including private, public, not-for-profit, and health services sectors. These grants aim to nurture commercialization and social innovation capabilities within the academic community, foster entrepreneurial skills in the early stages of the commercialization and knowledge mobilization processes, and make training and services widely available beyond immediate networks to a diverse range of researchers and HQP within the Canadian post-secondary landscape. The program stems from the Government of Canada's commitment in Budget 2022 to launch a new national program to help students and researchers take their work to market. For its inaugural competition cycle, the Lab to Market program will support a limited number of networks (up to a maximum of six) in order to provide a greater impact. The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) administers the program in collaboration with the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).