Award
Innovation Challenge Awards
Awarded by: Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
The Innovation Challenge Award was launched in 2004 by NSERC and the Canadian Science and Technology Growth Fund (CSTGF). The program is currently sponsored by the Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) and NSERC. Students doing graduate studies in the natural sciences or engineering are encouraged to take a new look at their thesis work and identify, by written essay, what potential product or service could be implemented through application of their research results.