Opportunities

FUNDING PROGRAMS:

Advanced Manufacturing Investments Strategy (AMIS)
The advanced manufacturing sector is integral to Ontario’s economy and to help keep it competitive, the government created the Advanced Manufacturing Investment Strategy. The $500 million program provides repayable loans, interest free for up to five years, to encourage companies to invest in leading-edge technologies and processes.

Advancing Canadian Agriculture and Agri-Food (ACAAF) Program
Agriculture and Agri-food Canada
A five-year, $240 million program aimed at positioning Canada's agriculture and agri-food sector at the leading edge to seize new opportunities. ACAAF was launched in April 2004 as a successor to the Canadian Adaptation and Rural Development (CARD) Fund

Biofuels Opportunities for Producers Initiative
Designed to help farmers and rural communities hire experts who can assist in developing business proposals and undertake feasibility and other studies necessary to create and expand biofuels production capacity involving significant (greater than one-third) ownership by agricultural producers.

Agricultural Bioproducts Innovation Program
Agriculture and Agri-food Canada
A $145 million, multi-year program designed to support new and existing research networks and encourage the development of clusters for the advancement of a sustainable and profitable Canadian bioeconomy.

Agri-Opportunities Program
Agriculture and Agri-food Canada
A $134 million, five-year program that aims to accelerate the commercialization of new agricultural products, processes or services that are currently not produced or commercially available in Canada, and are ready to be introduced to the marketplace.

Bioenergy Development Program
Natural Resources Canada
To assist Canadian industry in the research and development (R&D) and commercialization of bioenergy technologies that can serve as reliable, cost-effective and environmentally responsible alternatives to conventional energy production.

Business Development Bank of Canada – Various Programs
BDC plays a leadership role in delivering financial, investment and consulting services to Canadian small businesses, with a particular focus on the technology and export sectors of the economy.

Clean Energy Fund Program
Clean energy is energy that is produced, transmitted, distributed and used with low or zero greenhouse gas (GHG) and other air emissions. The Government of Canada has committed that Canada’s total GHG emissions be reduced by 20 percent from 2006 levels by 2020 and that 90 percent of Canada’s electricity be provided by non-emitting sources such as hydro, nuclear, clean coal and wind power by 2020.

Climate Change Action Fund - Technology Early Action Measures (CCAF - TEAM)
Natural Resources Canada, Environment Canada, Industry Canada
TEAM is an interdepartmental technology investment program supporting projects that are designed to demonstrate technologies that mitigate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions nationally and internationally, and that sustain economic and social development.

Eastern Ontario Development Program
FedNor, Community Futures Development Corporations
A $10 million, short-term contribution to a program aimed at addressing socio-economic challenges in Eastern Ontario.

ecoAGRICULTURE Biofuels Capital Initiative
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
A federal $200 million four-year program ending on March 31, 2011 that provides repayable contributions for the construction or expansion of transportation biofuel production facilities.

ecoENERGY for Renewable Power
ecoENERGY for Renewable Power will invest $1.48 billion to increase Canada's supply of clean electricity from renewable sources such as wind, biomass, low-impact hydro, geothermal, solar photovoltaic and ocean energy. It will encourage the production of 14.3 terrawatt hours of new electricity from renewable energy sources, enough electricity to power about one million homes.

ecoEnergy Technology Initiative
Natural Resources Canada
A $230-million investment in clean energy science and technology to fund research, development and demonstration (RD&D) to support the development of next- generation energy technologies needed to break through to emissions-free fossil fuel production, as well as for producing energy from other clean sources, such as renewables and bio-energy. It will also support the use and integration of clean energy in end-use sectors such as buildings and community systems.

Emerging Technologies Program
Natural Resources Canada
Identifies technical barriers to increasing the energy efficiency of Canadian industries by providing up to fifty percent (50%) funding assistance for technical assessments, prototype development and field trials is repayable from revenue or cost savings resulting from the project.

Funding Technologies for the Environment – Fund List
Environment Canada

Green Energy Act
The McGuinty government’s proposed Green Energy Act (GEA) is a bold series of co-ordinated actions motivated by our ambitions to create substantial employment in a green economy and reduce our impact on the climate.

Green Infrastructure Fund
Through Canada’s Economic Action Plan, the federal government will provide $1 billion over five years for a Green Infrastructure Fund (GIF). This Fund supports sustainable energy generation and transmission, along with municipal wastewater and solid waste management infrastructure. Targeted investments in green infrastructure can improve the quality of the environment and will lead to a more sustainable economy over the longer term.

Green Municipal Fund (GMF)
Federation of Canadian Municipalities
The Government of Canada has endowed the Federation of Canadian Municipalities with $550 million to establish and manage the Green Municipal Fund (GMF). The GMF supports municipal governments, and their partners, to improve to quality of our air, water and soil, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Industry Energy Research and Development Program
Natural Resources Canada, CANMET Energy Technology Centre
The program is aimed at supporting the development of leading edge products, processes or systems that will increase the efficiency of energy use throughout industry, and at encouraging the use of technologies developed under the program.

Industrial Research Assistance Program (IRAP) – Various Programs
National Research Council
Canada 's premier innovation assistance program for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

Next Generation of Jobs Fund
The five-year program is aimed at companies that make everything from car parts to advanced health products to Academy Award-winning special effects technologies.

Ontario Centres of Excellence Commercialization Programs
The OCE Commercialization program addresses the "innovation gap" between valuable research results and the new, marketable products and services that drive economic growth.

Ontario feed-in tariff (FIT Program)
Ontario's feed-in tariff or FIT Program is North America's first comprehensive guaranteed pricing structure for renewable electricity production. It offers stable prices under long-term contracts for energy generated from renewable sources, including: biomass, biogas, landfill gas, on-shore and off-shore wind, solar photovoltaic (PV) and waterpower.

Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation – Various Programs

Scientific Research and Experimental Development (SR&ED) Tax Credits
Canada Revenue Agency
A federal tax incentive program to encourage Canadian businesses of all sizes and in all sectors to conduct research and development (R&D) in Canada that will lead to new, improved, or technologically advanced products or processes.

SMART Program
Thanks to funding provided by the Government of Ontario, Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters (CME) has created the SMART Program to help small and medium-sized manufacturers in Ontario improve their productivity so they can compete more effectively in the global economy.

Solar Energy Systems Rebate Program
The Solar Energy Systems Rebate returns the Retail Sales Tax (RST) paid on solar energy systems to homeowners or builders, who install the energy systems into residential premises, including multi-residential premises, or who expand or upgrade an existing solar energy system.

Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC)
Finances and supports the development and demonstration of clean technologies which provide solutions to issues of climate change, clean air, water quality and soil, and which deliver economic, environmental and health benefits to Canadians. To do so, the Foundation draws from an investment fund of $550 million.

Going Global Innovation

TECHNOLOGY OPPORTUNITIES:

Find business development and technology commercialization opportunities for clean technologies in Ottawa and Eastern Ontario:

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Eastern Cereal and Oilseed Research Centre (ECORC)
Marketing and Business Development

CANMET Energy Technology Centre (CETC)
Business Development Office
Licensing Technologies

Energy Savings Toolbox

Flintbox

National Research Council – Institute for Chemical Process and Environmental Technology
Commercialization

National Research Council – Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences
Business Development Office

Carleton University
Innovation Transfer Office

University of Ottawa
Technology Transfer and Business Enterprise

For a complete listing of OCRI Life Science opportunities visit the OCRI Life Science opportunities page.