Applications for Lab2Market Oceans are now live for our 2022 cohort. A detailed information package is available on our website. This program is for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows (with support from a faculty member), and includes $15,000 in Mitacs Funding. The program will run September 12 – October 26 (with an orientation session August 23-25)
The Ocean Startup Project‘s Lab2Market Oceans program gives university research teams from across the country the skills they need to explore their ocean research idea in a new way and identify commercial opportunities (e.g., startup creation, licensing, partnering with industry) over seven weeks. It encourages researchers to take their findings beyond the typical academic path and into the world of innovation, entrepreneurship and commercialization.
At the end of the program, Lab2Market Oceans participants will have the entrepreneurial skills and competencies needed to understand the next steps of their research commercialization path. That path can be to create a research-based company, collaborate with an industry partner, or go back to the lab for more development.
Lab2Market Oceans applications are open until April 4 at: www.oceanstartupproject.ca/lab2market-oceans.
Interested in learning more? Prospective applicants are encouraged to review the information package on our website and attend one of program information sessions:
- March 9 at 11am PST/3pm AST/ 3:30pm NST
- March 15 at 1pm PST/ 5pm AST/ 5:30pm NST
- March 23 at 3pm PST/ 7pm AST/ 7:30pm NST
We are also happy to do a virtual or in-person information session for groups, faculty, graduate students and postdoctoral fellows upon request.
Lab2Market Oceans is part of the Ocean Startup Project, hosted by Memorial University, and supported by Springboard Atlantic, Canada’s Ocean Supercluster, the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA), and Mitacs.
If you have any further questions or would like to set up a session please contact the Program Manager, Marie Curtis (mcurtis@oceanstartupproject.ca)