Organizations and Resources for Innovation

Many organizations can help your business innovate. They offer a variety of services or programs, such as consulting, scientific research assistance, networking and more. Learn more about them and take advantage of their services.

Resources for all Canadian businesses

Regardless of where you are in Canada, these resources are available to help your business innovate.

• BDC Consulting
  
  http://www.canadabusiness.ca/eng/summary/2125/
  Applies to: All of Canada
  Find out how BDC's customized consulting services can help your business at all stages of development.
• Canadian Innovation Centre
  
  http://www.innovationcentre.ca/services
  This organization offers research, training and consulting services to help you transform your concept into a product or service ready to enter the market.
• Canadian Intellectual Property Office
  
  http://www.canadabusiness.ca/eng/summary/1430/
  Applies to: All of Canada
  Want to protect your invention or creative work? The Canadian Intellectual Property Office is the organization that will provide you with what you need to know and do to protect your intellectual property rights.
• Canadian Manufacturing’s Search for Competitive Differentiation
  
  http://www.iveybusinessjournal.com/article.asp?intArticle_ID=781
  Want to get an edge over your competitors? Find out what other Canadian manufacturers are doing to become more competitive and effective.
• Domestic Dairy Product Innovation Program (DDPIP)
  
  http://www.canadabusiness.ca/eng/summary/1591/
  Applies to: All of Canada
  You may be eligible to obtain a higher milk quota to develop and produce new and innovative dairy products (excluding butter).
• Federal Research Laboratories
  
  http://data.fptt-pftt.gc.ca/fedlabs/fedlablist_e.cfm
  Find out about government research facilities and laboratories, and if they offer services to help your business carry out scientific or engineering research.
• Flintbox
  
  http://www.flintbox.com/search.asp?Lang=EN
  Find technology opportunities, patents for licence and early stage research activities through this innovation database with members and users from over 100 countries.
• Industrial Research Assistance Program – Advisory Technical and Business Services
  
  http://www.canadabusiness.ca/eng/summary/3189/
  Applies to: All of Canada
  Get technical advice and assistance to help you through all stages of the innovation process.
• Precarn
  
  http://www.precarn.ca/home/index.html
  Find technologies and research partners, as well as help with developing research proposals and managing research projects.
• Technology Roadmaps
  
  http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/trm-crt.nsf/eng/home
  Technology Roadmaps can help identify, prioritize and develop the technologies and skills your business may need to compete in the future. Find out if one exists for your industry.

Ontario - Resources for Innovation

These resources could help your Ontario business innovate.

• Colleges Ontario Network for Industry Innovation
  
  http://www.conii.ca/faqs.php
  Link your ideas to technical skills and support for innovation found in Ontario's colleges.
• Innovation Transfer Office of Carleton University
  
  http://www.carleton.ca/ito/external.html
  Are you looking for technology and research expertise for your business? This office works with business to make technical resources and trained researchers available.
• MaRS
  
  http://www.marsdd.com/index.html
  MaRs can help your science or technology business get connected with business skills, networks, facilities and capital.
• New Environmental Technologies Evaluation Program (Ontario)
  
  http://www.canadabusiness.ca/eng/summary/2368/
  Applies to: Ontario
  Have your new Ontario environmental technology assessed by the Ministry of the Environment.
• Northwestern Ontario Innovation Centre
  
  http://www.nwoinnovation.ca/
  If you are an innovative entrepreneur, the Northwestern Ontario Innovation Centre (NOIC) can help you establish or expand your business in Northwestern Ontario.
• Ontario Centres of Excellence
  
  http://www.oce-ontario.org/Pages/Home.aspx
  Contact these centres of excellence for help with industrial research and development, commercialization of technology, and access to knowledge from industry and academic communities in Ontario.
• Ontario’s Environmental Sector Innovation Network
  
  http://www.oceta.on.ca/
  Ontario's Environmental Sector Innovation Network has a full range of services for businesses looking to commercialize new environmental, energy and clean technologies.
• PARTEQ Innovations
  
  http://www.parteqinnovations.com/iandi.html
  Would you like to license an innovative technology? PARTEQ Innovations can link you to technology developed by researchers at Queen's University.
• Queen’s Centre for Business Venturing
  
  http://business.queensu.ca/centres/qcbv/index.php
  The Queen's Centre for Business Venturing offers business training, in addition to financial resources for your innovative business.
• Regional Innovation Networks (Ontario)
  
  http://www.mri.gov.on.ca/english/programs/RIN-Program.asp
  Find commercialization services to help you with your innovative idea, product, service or business.
• Sault Ste. Marie Innovation Centre
  
  http://www.ssmic.com/
  Are you an entrepreneur who would like to start or grow a technology business in Sault Ste. Marie or the Algoma District? Sault Ste. Marie Innovation Centre (SSMIC) can help.
• Toronto Region Research Alliance
  
  http://www.trra.ca/en/
  Are you thinking of starting a tech and innovation business? Toronto Region Research Alliance (TRRA) wants you to choose the Toronto Region as a place to accelerate your business.