Reference number : 172-2018-2019-Q3-913562, amendment number : , agreement type : C, recipient legal name : Swidget Corp, recipient country : CA, recipient province : ON, recipient city : Kingston|Kingston, recipient postal code : K7K 7E6, program name english : Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms, program name french : Programme d’aide à la recherche industrielle – Contributions aux entreprises, program purpose english : The purpose of IRAP Contributions to Firms is to support research, development, adoption and/or adaptation of innovative or technology-driven new or improved products, services or processes in Canada up to their commercialization, program purpose french : Le PARI, par le biais des Contributions aux entreprises, vise à appuyer la recherche, le développement, l’adaptation et/ou l’adoption au Canada de produits, de services ou de processus novateurs ou axés sur des technologies nouvelles ou améliorées, et ce jusqu’à leur commercialisation, agreement title english : Operational Process Development, agreement title french : Développement de processus opérationnel, agreement number : 913562, agreement value : 49200.0, agreement start date : 2018-09-04, agreement end date : 2019-06-30, description english : As a continuation to the Swidget project under CALM Technologies, Swidget Corp. was created to take the IP developed under CALM and to commercialize the technology for mass-market sales in the Electrical Device and Smart Home  markets.  Building on the IRAP-sponsored I2C seminar and subsequent marketing studies, the company identified a significant opportunity for a suite of products for which it had developed IP in a rapidly expanding market. There now exists an immediate need to hire additional human resources to help solve the operational challenges faced in commercializing the Swidget portfolio of products.  This includes the transition from small manufacturing runs, to large, scalable production both domestically and off-shore., description french : Développement de processus opérationnel, expected results english : The purpose of IRAP Contributions to Firms is to support research, development, adoption and/or adaptation of innovative or technology-driven new or improved products, services or processes in Canada up to their commercialization, expected results french : Le PARI, par le biais des Contributions aux entreprises, vise à appuyer la recherche, le développement, l’adaptation et/ou l’adoption au Canada de produits, de services ou de processus novateurs ou axés sur des technologies nouvelles ou améliorées, et ce jusqu’à leur commercialisation, additional information english : nan, additional information french : nan, owner organization : nrc-cnrc, owner organization title : National Research Council Canada | Conseil national de recherches Canada