{"id":244,"date":"2010-07-28T23:33:34","date_gmt":"2010-07-29T03:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/docs.futureinnovate.net\/?page_id=244"},"modified":"2010-08-01T18:05:54","modified_gmt":"2010-08-01T22:05:54","slug":"6-5-progrid%c2%ae-example-innovation-demonstration-fund-idf","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/docs.futureinnovate.net\/?page_id=244","title":{"rendered":"6.5 ProGrid\u00ae Example: Innovation Demonstration Fund (IDF)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022\tThe Innovation Demonstration Fund (IDF) is a discretionary, non-entitlement funding program administered by the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation that focuses on the commercialization and initial technical demonstration of globally competitive, innovative Green technologies, processes and\/or products.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\tThe objective of the IDF is to help companies in their efforts to commercialize innovative technologies in Ontario by mitigating the risk of projects with significant pilot-scale technical hurdles. The IDF is not aimed at routine engineering, upgrading, or improvements to existing processes, designs or products.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\tIn 2006 Ron McCullough, led the IDF team in developing the decision framework and the work flow processes and protocols for IDF which received a renewal of funding in 2010.\u00a0 IDF has two parallel review processes, the first for Government Staff from up to six other Ontario Ministries in support of MRI.\u00a0 The decision framework for this element is shown below.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.3333px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/docs.futureinnovate.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/6_5_IDF_example1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-245\" title=\"IDF Example\" src=\"http:\/\/docs.futureinnovate.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/6_5_IDF_example1.png\" alt=\"IDF Example\" width=\"533\" height=\"642\" srcset=\"https:\/\/docs.futureinnovate.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/6_5_IDF_example1.png 666w, https:\/\/docs.futureinnovate.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/6_5_IDF_example1-249x300.png 249w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 533px) 100vw, 533px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Examples of two of the Language LaddersTM used during the proposal submission, review and decision processes for IDF are as below:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/docs.futureinnovate.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/6_5_IDF_example1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-245\" title=\"IDF Example\" src=\"http:\/\/docs.futureinnovate.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/6_5_IDF_example2.png\" alt=\"IDF Example\" width=\"533\" height=\"642\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/docs.futureinnovate.net\/?page_id=256\" target=\"_self\">Next<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 The Innovation Demonstration Fund (IDF) is a discretionary, non-entitlement funding program administered by the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation that focuses on the commercialization and initial technical demonstration of globally competitive, innovative Green technologies, processes and\/or products. \u2022 The objective of the IDF is to help companies in their efforts to commercialize innovative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":222,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-244","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/docs.futureinnovate.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/docs.futureinnovate.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/docs.futureinnovate.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/docs.futureinnovate.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/docs.futureinnovate.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/docs.futureinnovate.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":690,"href":"https:\/\/docs.futureinnovate.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/244\/revisions\/690"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/docs.futureinnovate.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/docs.futureinnovate.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}