Business Strategy Internship
Business Strategy Internship supports interns, academic supervisors, and Canadian partners working on business innovation projects to build partners’ capabilities and interns’ professional skills.
Funder: Mitacs
Due Dates: Rolling (applications accepted anytime)
Funding Amounts: $10,000 or $15,000 per intern per four- to six-month internship
Summary: Supports interns, academic supervisors, and Canadian partner organizations working together on business innovation projects.
Key Information: Each project requires an eligible intern, academic supervisor, and Canadian partner organization that contributes funding.
Description
Mitacs offers the Business Strategy Internship in partnership with Canadian academic institutions. Interns work with an academic supervisor and a partner organization to design an innovation project around the partner’s needs. Projects may address marketing, operations, finance, intellectual property, or other business challenges by improving business models, products, processes, or services. They are intended to go beyond the partner’s day-to-day operations.
The program aims to transfer knowledge between academic and non-academic sectors, strengthen partners’ innovation capabilities, support intellectual property creation and ownership in Canada, and give interns work-integrated learning and professional skills training. Mitacs also provides interns with online professional development courses.
