Premier’s Catalyst Awards: Call for entries

Awarding innovation in Ontario

Have a new product or service based on breakthrough technology?

The Premier’s Catalyst Awards are open for another round of nominations. The Catalyst Awards recognize excellence and leadership in innovation, providing five awards of $200,000. All you have to do is develop a commercially successful new, or significantly improved, product or service based on breakthrough technology.

Apply to one of the program’s five categories: Best Young Innovator, Innovator of the Year, Lifetime Achievement in Innovation, Start-up Company with the Best Innovation and Company with the Best Innovation.

The deadline for the Premier’s Catalyst Awards program is 5:00 pm on Thursday, October 9, 2008.

More information:

• Ministry of Research and Innovation website
• Winners of last year’s Premier’s Innovation Awards (including Catalyst Award Winners and the Premier’s Summit Awards)
• Contact Deborah McCarthy VanOosten at 416-326-9632 or awards@mri.gov.on.ca

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