Digital Marketing

Our company advertises thousands of products online. We have developed a set of marketing strategies, but it has been challenging to implement them. We would like to collaborate with students to review and post content promoting our company. This will involve several different steps for the students, including: Familiarizing themselves with our target market, products and services. Reviewing marketing content in the form of posts, emails, brochures, etc. Deploying content according to our social media calendar to increase website traffic. Overseeing our channels and keeping them up-to-date. Bonus steps in the process would also include: Recommending search engine optimization (SEO) strategies so our materials are easily accessible.

Django Web Development: AI and machine learning, natural language processing

Positions available: 1 Our organization is able to offer a virtual internship opportunity for students who are working with Django, Python, AI, and machine learning The primary focus for the student will be: Website Development for InnScience IPOP (Innovation, Project, Online, Platform) - Work with Python, Django, AI, and machine learning with natural language processing to implement a question answering system, paper recommendation and user recommendation, as well as to implement a workflow to find and incorporate technologies to our database from external databases. We have developed most of the code, and have a general direction but wish to work with a student to help us debut InnScience IPOP. We are looking for students that can assist us with HTML, Python, Javascript, and Flask to launch the platform. The number of required hours per week: 80 hours

Django Web Development: Payment, UserDashboard, Analytics & SEO

Positions available: 1 Our organization is able to offer a virtual internship opportunity for students who are working with Django and Python The primary focus for the student will be: Website Development for InnScience IPOP (Innovation, Project, Online, Platform) - Work with front-end technologies like HTML, CSS, JavaScript and back-end with Python, and Django to create site functionality on a prototype site. Implement functionality in a way that fits our purpose. We have developed most of the code, and have a general direction but wish to work with a student to help us debut InnScience IPOP. We are looking for students that can assist us with HTML, Python, Javascript, and Flask to launch the platform. Number of required hours per week: 80 hours

Business Process analysis for Patent filling

Company Description InnScience Labs Inc is a B2B platform that connects technology providers with organizations seeking and supporting technology for prototyping, validation, and scaling. Similar to the social network and classified ads. Using proprietary software, InnScience Labs Inc sells access to a wider and reliable network for R&D collaboration with project management support. InnScience is looking for enthusiastic team members, which can help to bring this novel service to the market, thus exerting a positive impact in the innovation ecosystem worldwide. Internship Description We are currently engaging with industry projects that we need to connect with the right research partner working with a technology matching the industry needs. To achieve this we need your help to assist us with a detailed analysis, flow diagrams of our platform process and the way of processing data. Roles and Responsibilities Research similar applications in IP databases like WIPO. Prepare a report of our method of processing data. Include details of the data collected and how it is processed. Prepare an engineering technical document for preparing to fill a patent Review similar patent applications Fill the patent application Discuss with the board technical details that should be considered in the application The goal at the end of the internship is to: Have our patent application submitted. Number of required hours per week: 20 hours Added benefits of this internship: Exposure to the startup environment Networking opportunities Mentorship Deliverables: What are your desired deliverables?: Patent application document, Brief on the patent details including an engineering technical document and recommendations. What are the tasks you want to complete to produce these deliverables?: Review similar patent applications Fill the patent application Discuss with the board technical details that should be considered in the application Apply your knowledge to assess the quality of the application Provide advice on the best way to proceed with IP Canada

French translation of our material

Our organization needs your help to translate all of our material into French as well as to make the necessary changes to convey the message of our startup. We would like to have our 3 mins pitch also in french, as well as our brochures, pitch deck, one pager.

Science and Engineering R&D curation

Positions available: 5 InnScience is a platform for R&D collaboration that connects industries with researchers and other stakeholders. Our organization needs to curate information of R&D projects that meet our criteria to engage and present our services. Our main industries are: Mining, Agriculture, Environment, Health, and Energy The categories we are focusing our work are Mining, Agriculture, Energy, and Environment. We are currently enabling international connections in these sectors and we would like different professionals from Natural Science and Enginering to help us connecting the industry with the academia as well as to curate the data of our categories, identify the most relevant projects of technologies with a prototype that could address the needs of the industry and to talk to the researchers.

Legal: Creation, review and update of our user terms and contracts

Positions available: 5 students Our organization needs the help of law students to prepare our legal documents. The main documents are: Term Sheet: It is the user contract where the terms and conditions of the service is included. MOU: it is a contract of mutual cooperation with key partners where some commitments are defined. R&D Collaboration Agreement: It is a contractual agreement where we indicate information about Intelectual Property, Data publication, Patent rights, and market-ready products.

Data Analysis & Dashboard creation

Positions available: five students We’d like students to help analyze our datasets to draw helpful insights. From this analysis, we hope to not only improve our processes and understanding but also gain insights that will greatly enhance our strategy. These insights will be directly related to business outcomes. Here are some of the topics we’d like students to explore throughout this project: Improve pricing and risk selection Identify trends and potential predictive mitigation strategies Develop more sophisticated products and pricing models Dashboard creation. create dynamic dashboards representing the business KPIs using the software tools we use in-house or free software.

Brand Identity and Graphic Design

Number of individual students required: (5 students) Our organization needs some branding and graphic design help! We are looking for teams that can help amplify what makes us unique and create better messaging for our brand. This would include identifying areas of improvement and developing a plan for better promotion and brand awareness. This project may combine research, data analysis, graphic design w/ Sketch or Adobe XD, prototyping, one-page creations and more! We believe this project will require: Research to define our unique brand position and create consistent promotional messaging Logo and/or Name Proposal that highlights brand awareness and brand positioning A branding guide Using tools to design prototypes that can be implemented into our marketing collateral We will give you access to organizational assets to support this project such as personnel, website analytics, sales and brand collateral, and more. We can also suggest names of competitors and comparators to research.

SEO and Social Media Strategy

Number of individual students required: 5 students Our team is looking for a social media marketing wizard who can help us drive more traffic and improve our SEO positioning. The primary project requirements include: Keyword analysis to determine relevant search terms to our organization A strategy document to outline: Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) requirements to ensure our organization appears on the first page of Google for relevant keywords Social media requirements to increase the number of followers/likes and share Content Calendar Execution: Timely deployment of all our social media content to drive maximum traffic to our site Creating engaging content for prominent media websites Working with tools and programs such as analytics, google, social media We’re excited to work with students who can help us not only brainstorm, but also execute a strategy to achieve: "Being the top-ranked result for the keywords '"R&D collaboration"> This is a great project for students to prove their digital marketing expertise to future employers, as the impact of their work on this project can be easily measured and communicated.

Financial Risk Analysis

Positions available: 5 students We are interested in understanding the state of the market and our organization’s level of risk. We would like to conduct a risk analysis to determine our level of security and our best course of action. We believe that the best way to accomplish this is to build a market and financial risk model for our organization and perform a sensitivity analysis using both private and public sources of data. We believe this project will include: Apply mathematical/statistical analysis and computing methods to analyze data. Estimate the volatility, correlation for returns, forward contracts, and industry-specific futures. Presenting findings on our market risk exposure and provide recommendations. By using private (provided by your organization) and publicly available data on industry-specific derivatives, students will also perform a sensitivity analysis to identify the reliability of risk estimates.

Financial Business Plan

Positions available: 5 students We are looking to launch a new business and would like to involve students in this exciting time as we works to develop a financial business plan. We can provide access to internal documentation other information as needed as well as access to key contacts. Based on our unique goals and constraints, we would like students to develop a strong, competitive financial business plan, which we can present to investors. The plan should include: Sales forecasting Expense budget Income projections (conservative and aggressive) Assets and liabilities Break-even analysis

Hiring Consultancy

Positions available: five students In the past, we have had challenges hiring and retaining top-quality talent. We would like to develop a system to effectively build our workforce. Working with students, we want to overhaul our hiring practices and implement structures best practices. Students should be prepared to: Evaluate our current recruitment and selection procedures. Develop hiring systems and processes, based on best practices and our organizational needs. Consider the use of psychometric tests, assessment exercises, and standardized interview practices. Present a revised hiring methodology for our organization to adopt, with references

UX/UI Design

Positions available: five students We’re looking for UX/UI talent! Do you have a background or interest in user experience design or user interface design? We’d love to see what you would do with the Catalogue page in beta . Put yourself in the shoes of a user experience designer working for our company, and give this page a complete refresh. If you were redesigning this page to increase conversion rates, visual appeal, clarity, and customer delight - what would you change? This can include adding or removing elements from the page, adding interactive or animated features, changing the customer journey from this page, and/or completely redesigning the look and feel. Outcomes Your challenge submission can be an interactive mockup, flat wireframes, a functional website, a photoshop file - whatever gets your vision across. Please feel free to be creative and depart from the design of the rest of the site if you choose, but submissions that take into consideration our branding will be assessed more favourably.

Digital Content Creation

Number of individual students required: 5 students We would like students to help us with creating content that is aligned with our vision, mission, and sector. We will ensure the student has a clear understanding of what these elements are for our organization. We need to use all of our material and the information from our pilot studies to create amazing content. To accomplish this, we expect the student(s) will: Write blog articles, email newsletters/sequences and other content pieces on assigned topics Assist with a social media video launch to promote our organization Evaluate recent successful user-generated campaigns, preferably in our sector Identify media outlets that are most beneficial to share our story Ultimately, you will be working on content creation for our organization, including video, social media, and other collateral that we can use as go-to marketing tools. If you like the sound of our culture, and are ready to tackle this challenge with us, then we'd love to hear from you. A student or team with excellent writing and video skills would be the ideal candidate for this project.

Marketing plan

Our organization is able to offer a virtual internship opportunity for up to 5 students or teams. The primary focus for the student will be: Strategy - Develop an implementation plan for entering a new market; develop a go-to-market strategy for new products or services; identify new funding and grant opportunities and write proposals. Operations - Recommend process improvements or redesign processes; develop improvements to supply chain processes to be more responsive to changes in demand; introduce quality assurance into our internal processes; redesign incentive structures to improve employee performance and engagement. Marketing - Complete a full customer, competitor, market, and environmental analysis; complete a marketing strategy review; design a new marketing strategy (product, place, price, and promotion); conduct overhaul of our branding or communication strategy. Sales - Design a new/improved prospecting process for our sales team; design a new/improved pricing or service structure. Our goal at the end of this experience is: (please indicate the goal for this placement, or deliverable you expect the student(s) to complete, as exemplified below) Strategy - For the student(s) to help us capture increased market share; for the student(s) to help us capture new revenue streams; for the student(s) to help us secure new partnerships and funding. Operations - For the student(s) to help us implement more efficient and effective processes that maximize employee performance and customer satisfaction. Marketing - For the student(s) to help us reach more customers and effectively promote our brand, mission, and story. Sales - For the student(s) to help us roll-out better prospecting that increases conversion rates and boost our sales team's performance. Other duties the student may complete could include : (indicate other duties as exemplified below) Conduct research and data analysis. Create presentation decks and assist with presentations to key stakeholders. We will plan to communicate with our virtual intern using these communication tools: Slack, email, phone

Marketing Intern

Positions available: 5 students We’re looking for a student to help us source, curate, develop, and post the content implementing strategies to increase awareness and nurture engagement. Based on our goals, we are looking for the student to work on the following: Content Calendar Curation: timely deployment of all our social media content to drive maximum traffic to our site Social Media Management: overseeing different channels that we own and keeping them up-to-date Content Development, brochures, presentations SEO Other marketing-related tasks

Computer Science & Information Technology

Positions available: 5 students We need your help with: Software Lifecycle Analysis. to optimize our software development systems and procedures. Open Source Software Management. to develop a set of tools that we can implement in our product build. Database Analysis. to improve our data storage and querying. Technologies used: Python, Flask, SQLAlchemy, AWS, front-end technologies.

Sales Forecasting & Operations Plan

Number of individual students required: 5 students To become a proactive sales team, we need assistance developing an outreach process. We would like to equip our sales team with a plan that guides them in researching new prospects, identifying key contacts, and reaching out with compelling messages. We would like you to create a simple step-by-step strategy for prospecting in our target market. The project may include, but is not limited to: Sales forecasting. Students will analyze your sales funnels and internal processes to develop recommendations for more accurate forecasting. Sales operations. Students review your sales processes and make recommendations in the area of operations to improve efficiency and increase conversion. The final project deliverable is a report including research, analysis, and recommendations. It should assist our sales team in successfully forecasting & operating within our target market with actionable recommendations that will increase sales conversions.

Strategic Prospecting Plan

Number of individual students required: 5 students To become a proactive sales team, we need assistance developing an outreach process. We would like to equip our sales team with a plan that guides them in researching new prospects, identifying key contacts, and reaching out with compelling messages. We would like you to create a simple step-by-step strategy for prospecting in our target market. The project may include, but is not limited to: Identifying new potential accounts that align with our current customer base. Compiling relevant market information. Building a customizable outreach script. Creating a simple tracking framework, including metrics, for measuring outreach success. The final project deliverable is a report including research, analysis, and recommendations. It should assist our sales team in successfully prospecting within our target market with actionable recommendations that will increase sales conversions.

Project managment intern for Riipen projects

Positions available: 5 students InnScience is looking for a project management intern who would like to help us taking care of other Riipen projects and making sure the deliverables are meeting the scheduled time, as well as tracking all the activities and following up with the interns. 1) Specific Project Objective: Have support with project management for Riipen projects Duration total of 80 hours places for 3 interns

Competitive Analysis for InnScience

Number of individual students required: 3 students It’s important for us to have a better understanding of how our target audience perceives our brand and competitors. We want to develop clarity on our competitive advantages and optimize our marketing strategy. This project will include: An identification of our current competitors An identification of potential future competitors (eg. a large company in a similar industry who may enter the space) The creation of a matrix identifying features shared across the companies and those that are different. A summary of 2-4 paragraphs describing our competitive advantages and disadvantages relative to the competition identified. This could be done in the form of a SWOT analysis. We will give you access to organizational assets to support this project such as personnel, website analytics, sales and brand collateral, and more. We can suggest names of competitors to research. Objective We hope to gain a comprehensive understanding of the competitors in our space and how we can differentiate ourselves through our product/service offering, and our messaging.

Financial Business Plan

We are looking to expand our business and would like to involve students in this exciting time as we work to develop a financial business plan. We can provide access to internal documentation other information as needed as well as access to key contacts. Based on our unique goals and constraints, we would like students to develop a strong, competitive financial business plan, which we can present to investors. The plan should include: Sales forecasting Expense budget Income projections (conservative and aggressive) Assets and liabilities Break-even analysis Creating mock-ups of the pitch deck that we can use to present to investors.

Strategic Prospecting Plan

To become a proactive sales team, we need assistance developing an outreach process. We would like to equip our sales team with a plan that guides them in researching new prospects, identifying key contacts, and reaching out with compelling messages. We would like you to create a simple step-by-step strategy for prospecting in our target market.  This project may include, but is not limited to: Identifying new potential accounts that align with our current customer base. Profiling our current early customers. Compiling relevant market information.  Building a customizable outreach script. The final project deliverable is a report including research, analysis, and recommendations. It should assist our sales team in successfully prospecting within our target market with actionable recommendations that will increase sales conversions.

Django Web Development: Debugging, Deployment, and DB migration

Positions available: 3 Our organization is able to offer a virtual internship opportunity for students who are working with Django and Python The primary focus for the student will be: Website Development for InnScience IPOP (Innovation, Project, Online, Platform) - Work with front-end technologies like HTML, CSS, JavaScript and back-end with Python, and Django to create site functionality on a prototype site. Implement functionality in a way that fits our purpose. We have developed most of the code, and have a general direction but wish to work with a student to help us debut InnScience IPOP. We are looking for students that can assist us with HTML, Python, Javascript, and Flask to launch the platform. Number of required hours per week: 80 hours

Product Validation of InnScience Collaborate

We have developed a mechanism in the back that enables the connection between the academia and research. We are seeking for partners to validate our innovation. We would love support to: - Take our backend to the frontend. - Sales and business development. - Update the specs according to the customer's feedback. - Prepare a pricing and financial projection for pitch to venture capitals.