Collaborate 2 Commercialize

💡What Is This Program?

🎁What Benefits Are Offered?

Support for collaborative projects between academic institutions and industry to streamline internal innovations, meet commercialization needs, provide targeted training, and develop commercially viable solutions.

📋What Are the Application Steps & Timeline?

📝Steps to ApplySource

• Connect with OCI Business Development and Commercialization Manager (BDM)
• Complete the Program Enquiry Form
• Undergo initial vetting and due diligence assessment
• Receive auto-generated link to AccessOCI
• Complete the online application form in AccessOCI
• Submit application to post-secondary institution’s Research Office for endorsement
• Research Office endorses application in AccessOCI
• OCI internal review and external review process
• Receive decision notification

🌐Application PortalSource

https://accessoci.ca

📤Submission MethodSource

online

📅Key DatesSource

90 days from receipt of linkApplication open period

Typically within 35 days of application submissionDecision notification

30 days after project end dateFinal report submission

🔄Intake TypeSource

rolling

📄What Documents Are Required?

✅Required DocumentsSource

• Schedule C Application Summary

📐Format RequirementsSource

PDF only, max 10MB

💰What Expenses Are Eligible?

🧾Eligible ExpensesSource

• Registration fees and travel and accommodation costs
• Salaries and benefits for technicians, support staff, post-doctoral fellows, research assistants and students
• Direct Project management expenses up to 10% of OCI contribution
• Replacement costs associated with faculty release
• Cost of part time faculty hired to support applied research project
• Research materials, licence fees, publication, workshop costs, supplies, and services
• Pro-rated research equipment purchase for project activities
• Lab analyses and related services
• Sub-contractor and consultant fees if approved
• Costs associated with the dissemination of findings
• Translation costs associated with dissemination of project information

🚫Ineligible ExpensesSource

• Commuting costs between residence and place of employment
• Passport and immigration fees
• Reimbursement for airfare purchased with personal frequent flyer points programs
• Meals
• Travel outside the province of Ontario
• Wages and benefits of faculty, adjunct or visiting professors
• Salaries and benefits for Principal Investigators
• Administrative (or management) charges and fees
• Release time allowance for individuals with salaried academic research appointment
• Expenses of a personal nature
• Costs not directly associated with meeting the deliverables and milestones
• Standard monthly connection or rental costs of telephones
• Tax expenses
• Fines and penalties
• Infrastructure costs
• Intellectual property protection costs
• Opportunity costs
• Interest charges
• Amortization of unrealized appreciation of assets
• Losses on other projects or contracts

📏Expense CapsSource

Salaries and benefits not exceeding $100 per hour, to a maximum of $5,000 per month; Pro-rated research equipment purchase up to a maximum of 20% of the OCI contribution

💳Payment ModelSource

mixed

⏪Retroactive Expenses EligibleSource

Yes

🤝Is Matching Funding Required?

🔀Matching RequiredSource

Yes

📊Matching RatioSource

1:1

🏦Eligible Matching SourcesSource

• cash

📚Stacking RulesSource

Cannot be leveraged with other federal or provincial grant programs unless otherwise stated in this program guideline

🛡️Proof of Matching RequiredSource

Confirmation of receipt of these funds from the institution

📊What Are the Reporting Requirements?

🗓️Reporting FrequencySource

annual

📑Reporting RequirementsSource

• final report after Project completion
• annual surveys for a period of 5 years following the Term
• any other follow-up reporting reasonably required by OCI

🔍Audit RequirementsSource

Each Participant shall account for the Contributions and its use and shall keep good and valid records of such accounts in accordance with GAAP at all times.

📢Branding RequirementsSource

acknowledgement that OCI is a member of the Ontario Network of Entrepreneurs and credit with respect to Ontario’s financial support of the Project

🗄️Record Retention PeriodSource

4 years