Allocations of Research Support Fund grants
Funding that Ontario Tech U has received from the Research Support Fund over the past four years can be viewed in the graph below. The university was allocated:
- $1,798,806 in 2019-2020
- $1,773,547 in 2018-2019
- $1,673,236 in 2017-2018
- $1,514,752 in 2016-2017
- $1,587,939 in 2015-2016
Funds are allocated to defray expenditures in the following categories:
- Research facilities
- Research resources
- Management and administration of an institution's research enterprise
- Regulatory requirements and accreditation
- Intellectual property and knowledge mobilization
The funding is allocated to the categories by the following process:
- Central allocation: Annually, a portion of the research support program is allocated to maintain the current level of services and support the research environment. Specifically funds go towards the costs in the following categories:
- Research facilities to defray the cost of utilities in research space and renovate and update laboratory space.
- Research resources to defray the costs associated with the acquisition of library research holdings and maintain subscriptions to electronic journals and databases.
- Management and administration to defray the costs of supporting grants administration and financial compliance and reporting.
- Regulatory requirements and accreditation to maintain the operation of the Research Ethics Board, the Animal Care Committee, the Radiation Safety Committee and the Biosafety Committee.
- Intellectual property and knowledge mobilization to support the management of intellectual property and the maintenance of the existing patent portfolio.