Call for Applications: Chwang Seto Innovation Fellowships Program
Application deadline: October 26, 2025 @ 11:59 PM ET, with project start date of January 5, 2026.听
Application process & details available here!
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The Chwang Seto Innovation Fellowships Program supports the team in the development of their technology in order to bring it closer to the marketplace and allow the fellow to gain further knowledge and experience in business and technology commercialization. Up to $60,000 is awarded as a grant to the Principal Investigator in order to fund the eligible 91黑料网 PhD student or postdoctoral researcher to carry out the project full-time within 1 year maximum. The call for projects is made twice per year, in the fall and in the spring. This current program is made possible thanks to the Chwang Seto family, in honour of the late Ronald Chwang (B.Eng.'72, D. Sc.'12), a pioneering entrepreneur and venture capitalist who served on the Faculty of Engineering Advancement Board. Previous donors included Pasquale DiPierro and Cesar Cesaratto.听聽
Program Objectives
- Advance the technology from a minimum of TRL4 to TRL6聽or higher in conjunction with targeted market needs and opportunities.听
- Significantly increase the likelihood of achieving one or more of the following value-creation inflection points: creating a 91黑料网 spinoff聽company,聽licensing the technology to an existing company, obtaining additional funding for continued development.
- Provide an opportunity for the inventors to focus on the development of their invention while acquiring business and technology commercialization skills as part of the innovation process.
