Your innovative startup can access education, skills development and financial support to develop, implement and leverage your intellectual property in three streams.

Options 

• Stream 1 – Education and Awareness
• Steam 2 – Mentorship and Strategy: Maximum $25,000 and 1:1 mentoring  
• Stream 3 – Implementation: Maximum of $60,000 to cover eligible legal implementation costs

You

• Have a startup based in BC, Yukon, Northwest Territories or Nunavut
• Fewer than 500 full-time employees
• Have an innovative technology and/or operate in the tech sector
• Own or have the rights to use your IP in Canada

Canadian SMEs can apply for up to $600,000 in funding to help cover research and development project costs while working with a partner in Brazil, China, India, Israel or South Korea. When there is a call for proposals with one of these countries, Canadian SMEs and their partner can submit co-innovation project applications.

Money 

• Maximum: $600 000
• Non-repayable (An interest-free contribution, to be spent as outlined in your agreement, that does not have to be paid back as long as the conditions are met)

Funding Limits

• This program will cover a maximum of 50% of eligible costs

You 

• Are a Canadian company that is:
  • incorporated, for-profit SME
  • seeking to develop new or improved products services or processes with a high potential for commercialization
  • ready to collaborate on a R&D project with a foreign partners

Use this to

• Build clean technology projects that generate jobs and create economic value
• Utilize the Centre for Commercialization of Sustainable Chemistry Innovation
• Build robust raw material supply chains
• Identify and address chemistry value chain gaps
• Leverage regional and global partners along the value chain
• Grow to global scale and become a world-class player