Developing the business leaders of tomorrow.
Campus-Linked Accelerators (CLAs) are an important step in the evolution of Ontario’s entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystem. This program provides funding to post-secondary institutions to create, improve and sustain a culture of entrepreneurship among students and youth in their regions, and to integrate these entrepreneurial activities with investors, industry, and other stakeholders in their region.
CLA investments will help Ontario accelerate the commercialization of ideas and inventions out of its world-class research institutions, develop the business leaders of tomorrow, and harness the power of its support networks to help build competitive regional innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystems. CLA funding is intended to scale (grow) campus-linked entrepreneurship capacity by funding those institutions with: