The Meat Industry is Canada’s largest sector of Canada’s food processing industry, and accounts for 10% of Canada agri-food exports while employing 67,500 people. “Meat” The New Realities: Innovation, Regulation, Education The Canadian Meat Council’s annual conference is the organization’s flagship event. This year’s conference is now accepting reservations online and by phone, and promises…
Researchers are often required to have industry partners in order to qualify for government funding programs, and making that connection can be especially difficult and time consuming for researchers. Through a streamlined process, MaRS Innovation Industry Access Program helps researchers connect with one of MaRS Innovation’s industry partners, which include: Baxter, LifeLabs, GSK, Johnson &…
Well over half of Canada’s population rely on natural gas for power and heat in homes, apartments, buildings, businesses, hospitals and schools. With this in mind, the Canadian Federal Government, Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC) and the Canadian Gas Association announced the impending creation of a new Canadian government grant funding program to support the…
Attendees of the official launch ceremony taking place March 10th celebrated the launch of a total of 30 technology startups from the Waterloo Accelerator Centre’s s month mentorship and business acceleration program aimed at assisting engineers and scientists commercialize new products and services. Background: The Waterloo Accelerator Jump-Start Program The Accelerator Team has recruited a…
The Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario (FedDev Ontario) Minister of State Gary Goodyear was in his hometown of Cambridge, Ontario earlier this week (March 18, 2014) to announce top-ups of two funds that deliver the Southern Ontario Fund for Investment in Innovation Program (SOFII). The investment allotted funds amounting to $8 million to…
The Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE) has issued a call for proposals with a deadline of May 8th, 2014. The Voucher for Industry Association R&D Challenge (VIA) program is a part of OCE’s Collaboration Voucher program that connects industry associations or formal industry consortia with Ontario’s publicly funded academic research institutions (such as universities, colleges,…
The Minister of State (Science & Technology), Greg Rickford, and the President of the National Research Council (NRC) were in Brampton, ON to announce a new 2-year pilot funding program called Business Innovation Access Program. Canadian Government Grants to Support Innovative SMEs Business Innovation Access Program (IRAP- BIAP) is a new Canadian government grants program that leverages…
The $14 billion Building in Canada Fund will be ready to accept proposals by the end of March 2014 said Prime Minister Stephen Harper while speaking to the media earlier last month. Building Canada Fund will Help Overhaul Infrastructure across Canada This latest plan to revamp parts of Canada’s aging infrastructure began with consultations with…
You’ve probably heard it before, but the numbers are worth repeating. The OECD Observer notes that the size of “the global middle class” is increasing at breakneck speed. In fact the number of people fitting into the middle class is expected to increase from 1.8 billion in 2009 to 3.2 billion by 2020, and up…
The 2014 Federal Budget pledged continuing support for through the Economic Action Plan’s Southern Ontario Prosperity Initiatives, which includes Investing in Business Innovation (IBI) Canadian business grants. IBI’s Not-for-Profit stream will fund up to 100% of project costs to a maximum of $20 million. Investing in Business Innovation (IBI) –Success Story Communitech Corporation out of…