Intellectual property is a strategic asset for the innovative companies you support. To highlight the importance of IP, it is important to raise awareness among entrepreneurs so they can better understand how IP fits into a comprehensive business strategy.
To help you raise awareness among the businesses in your network, we have established a financial support program as part of momentumPI, to fund and organize up to two intellectual property awareness events, for a total of $2,000.
We strongly encourage you to participate in our call for proposals so that we can reach as many entrepreneurs as possible and raise awareness about the importance of intellectual property for the growth of their businesses.
eligibility criteria
To ensure that these events reach the targets of our service momentumPI, we will base our selection on four essential criteria:
- Awareness-raising: The event is intended to help raise awareness of the importance of intellectual property in the development cycle of a young, innovative company.
- Differentiation: This event is not intended to replace the online training courses offered to entrepreneurs by service momentumPI. However, it may serve as a supplement to those courses.
- Community Impact: The event must reach a significant number of entrepreneurs within the community (ranging from 20 to 100 entrepreneurs, depending on the region and event).
- Data collection: The event will provide an opportunity to collect data on entrepreneurs who are aware of intellectual property issues as part of the mandate entrusted by ISDE (see the “Organizers’ Obligations” section).
Obligations of the organizers
- Offer at least two (2) spots for team MAIN or its representatives momentumPI during the event
- Provide an opportunity for the MAIN team to speak or its representatives momentumPI
- Recognition of Partnership: Organizers must list momentumPI as an official partner of the event and promote the training programs developed as part of momentumPI as resources to support entrepreneurs
- On-site during the event (announced verbally and displayed on screen)
- In at least three digital communications across two different media channels (social media, newsletters, etc.)
- Post-event report for each event: Provide MAIN with the number of entrepreneurs present, collect data on the entrepreneurs present (see template),a photo, and a report on momentumPI’s visibility in digital communications (statistics, screenshots, URLs, etc.).
Events must be completed and billed before March 31, 2025.
momentumPI is an initiative designed to help support organizations (accelerators, incubators, and others) provide innovative Canadian companies with access to professional intellectual property (IP) services.
This initiative is funded by Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) as part of the program Raising laPI.