Organize an IP awareness event in Quebec with momentumPI

Published on November 7, 2024

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 that they better understand how IP fits into a comprehensive business strategy.

To help you raise awareness among businesses in your network, we have set up a financial support program, as part of momentumPI, to fund up to two intellectual property awareness events, for a total of $2,000.

We strongly encourage you to participate in our call for proposals in order to reach as many entrepreneurs as possible about the importance of IP for the growth of their businesses.

Submit a request for financial support

eligibility criteria

To ensure that these events meet the targets of our momentumPI service, we will base our selection on four essential criteria:

  1. Awareness: The event should help raise awareness of the importance of intellectual property in the development cycle of a young, innovative company.
  2. Differentiation: The event should not replace the online training courses offered to entrepreneurs by the momentumPI service. However, it may complement them.
  3. Community impact: The event must reach a significant number of entrepreneurs within the community (approximately 20 to 100 entrepreneurs, depending on the region and event).
  4. 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 section "Organizers' obligations").

Obligations of organizers

  1. Offer at least two (2) places for the MAIN team or its momentumPI representatives at the event.
  2. Offer the MAIN team or its representatives the opportunity to speak. momentumPI
  3. Partnership recognition: Organizers must list momentumPI as an official partner of the event and promote the training courses developed as part of momentumPI as resources to support entrepreneurs.
    • On site during the event (verbal announcement and display on screen)
    • In at least three digital communications on two different media (social media, newsletter, etc.)
  4. Post-event report for each event: provide MAIN with the number of entrepreneurs in attendance, collect data on the entrepreneurs in attendance (see template), a photo, and a momentumPI visibility report in digital communications (statistics, screenshots, URLs, etc.).

Events must be completed and invoiced before March 31, 2025.

momentumPI is an initiative that aims 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 Elevate IP program.