New funding opportunity: Campus Alberta Small Business Engagement (CASBE) program
Posted on: Jun 3, 2021
Alberta Innovates has announced that the 2021-22 program is now open for new applications.
Details can be found below.
Interested members of the CUE community are invited to contact the Office of Research Services (research@concordia.ab.ca) for more information.
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From Alberta Innovates
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The CASBE program is a partnership between Alberta Innovates and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) to fund collaborations between small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Alberta and researchers from Alberta post-secondary institutions.
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This is a continuous intake program and we will continue to accept applications until the 2020-21 budget is exhausted.听
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There are two streams of funding to help Alberta SMEs adopt emerging technologies developed with the support of researchers:
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1. Stream I with a maximum of $25, 000 in available funding from Alberta Innovates and $25,000 from NSERC, and
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2. Stream II with a maximum of $150,000 in available funding from Alberta Innovates leveraging NSERC鈥檚 contribution for a maximum of two years for a total of $300,000.
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include:
- Additive manufacturing
- Advanced data management and analytics
- Automation (including robotics)
- Communications networks and services
- Cybersecurity
- Human interaction with digital media
- Internet of Things (IoT)/Machine-to-machine systems
- Lightweight materials and technologies
- Nanotechnology
- Quantum computing
- Quantum materials
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