By University of Waterloo - Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology (WIN)
Graduate students and post doctoral fellows can be support and directly engaged in research through scholarship. Both the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Industrial Postgraduate Scholarship (IPS) and the Mitacs Accelerate or Elevate programs will match, in some cases 2:1 to support a graduate student. Often these students are required to spend at least 20% of their time at the company conducting research which eventually becomes their thesis subject. Frequently, these students are hired by the company, as not only are they pre-trained in the company's business, but their "intellectual property" goes with them to the new employer.
