Saskatchewan

Research and Technology Sources

• Saskatchewan Industry and Resources
  Saskatchewan Industry and Resources provides a wide variety of services related to all facets of business and economic development.
  
  Source: Government of Saskatchewan
• Saskatchewan Research Council
  We can help determine the technical and market feasibility of your product and refer you to other agencies to get important information and assistance. It's the smart approach to product development that saves the two commodities we can never invent: time and money.
  
  Source: Saskatchewan Research Council
• Saskatchewan ScienceMap
  View industry clusters based on genealogy, history and relationship within the sectors most important to the community, effectively visualize the sectors participants and view the clusters of entities that are the focus of the community's development and investment attraction. Inside, you will find much more visual detail on companies and their historic relationships to one another.
  
  Source: Saskatchewan ScienceMap
• Saskatoon Research Centre
  The Saskatoon Research Centre is located on the University of Saskatchewan campus in Saskatoon, SK, Canada, near Innovation Place, a research park specializing in agricultural biotechnology. The Saskatoon Research Centre is a Research Branch site with research farms in the Black and Dark Brown soil zones at: Saskatoon, Melfort and Scott.
  
  Source: Saskatoon Research Centre
• Telecommunications Research Laboratories - Research Areas
  TRLabs is Canada's largest research consortium (industry, university, government) in information and communications technology. TRLabs operates five laboratories in Western Canada where university professors, graduate students, industrial partners and staff researchers work together to conduct applied research.
  
  Source: TRLabs (Telecommunications Research Laboratories), Alberta

Innovation Services

• Canada-Saskatchewan Business Service Centre
  The Canada-Saskatchewan Business Service Centre (CSBSC) is a one-stop site for information on starting or operating a business in Saskatchewan. Information on government programs, market assessment, financing, taxation, writing a business plan and much more - all critical to starting and operating a business.
  
  Source: Canada Business Service Centres
• Industrial Research Assistance Program - Manitoba and Saskatchewan
  NRC's Industrial Research Assistance Program helps small and medium-sized Canadian firms build their capability in technology and innovation. Our Industrial Technology Advisors (ITAs) work with you on-site to assess your company's needs and design solutions tailored to the business.
  
  Source: Industrial Research Assistance Program
• Innovation Place
  Innovation Place, a development of SOCO, is one of the most rapidly growing, and most successful, university-related research parks in North America located in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
  
  Source: Innovation Place

Financing

• Financing for Business Start-up Info-Guide
  The Info-Guide is a document designed to help you navigate through the federal and provincial government programs and services available to individuals for financing to start up a business in Saskatchewan.
  
  Source: Canada-Saskatchewan Business Service Centre
• Saskatchewan Agriculture and Food - Finance
  Saskatchewan Agriculture and Food administers three distinct types of financial services for the province's agricultural industry.
  
  Source: Saskatchewan Agriculture and Food
• Saskatchewan Industry and Resources - Programs and Services
  Saskatchewan Industry and Resources provides a wide variety of services related to all facets of business and economic development.
  
  Source: Saskatchewan Industry and Resources

About Saskatchewan

• Government of Saskatchewan
  The central site for WWW-based information from the Government of Saskatchewan, Canada
  
  Source: Government of Saskatchewan
• Government of Saskatchewan Directory
  The Saskatchewan Government Directory is a central database of provincial government organizational information, including the Premier's office, departments, crown corporations, public agencies and their employees.
  
  Source: Government of Saskatchewan
• Saskatchewan Trade and Export Partnership Inc. (STEP)
  STEP is a non-profit, membership-based organization designed to promote the growth of Saskatchewan's export industry. We assist provincial businesses to realize global marketing opportunities through specially tailored services and programs. STEP pursues growth in existing foreign markets and opens doors to new ones. Our members include both businesses that are experienced and those that are new to international trade.
  
  Source: Saskatchewan Trade and Export Partnership Inc. (STEP)

Tools

• Interactive Business Planner
  The IBP uses the capabilities of the Internet to assist entrepreneurs prepare a 3 year business plan for their new or existing business.
  
  Source: Canada Business
• Ratio Calculators
  A series of online calculators for everything from debt equity to return on total assets.
  
  Source: Business Development Bank of Canada
• Steps to Growth Capital
  Steps to Growth Capital is a skills development program designed to help entrepreneurs access growth capital by making them investor ready. It will help you develop the plan, the materials and the confidence to go after the equity financing you need to launch your business idea and achieve your business goals.
  
  Source: Strategis - Business Support and Financing

Guides & Databases

• Canadian Company Capabilities
  Canadian Company Capabilities (CCC) is Industry Canada's searchable online directory of Canadian companies. This database profiles over 50,000 businesses and more than 700,000 products, services, technologies and markets.
  
  Source: Strategis - Canadian Company Capabilities
• Contact! Small Business Support Organizations
  Search for an organization using one or several of our search methods.
  
  Source: Contact! Small Business Support Organizations
• Sources of Financing
  You will find an extensive directory of Canadian financial providers, a powerful search engine of financial providers, information on different types of financing and financial providers, and tips to help you secure financing.
  
  Source: Government of Canada; Industry Canada