The funding will support projects of up to eight months designed to help the schools improve processes for turning research and inventions into market-ready products and services. The projects chosen are from Conestoga College; Durham College; Collège La Cité; Lambton College; Niagara College; York University; and a joint effort between Laurentian University, Trent University, Lakehead University and Nipissing University. (The Logic)

Talking point: Ontario’s Progressive Conservative government set up IPON in January 2022, following the February 2020 recommendations of a panel set up in part to study how best to support the in-province commercialization of research produced at universities and colleges. Thursday’s batch are the first organizations for which the agency announced support; it will also provide programming for businesses. IPON has convened a working group of colleges and universities to come up with commercialization metrics and tailor assistance to those institutions’ needs. “Some of them have sophisticated programs and may not need our supports,” CEO Peter Cowan recently told The Logic.