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The Manitoba ICT Advantage
Manitoba is home to a dynamic and growing community of ICT business
and research. As a province, we continue to invest in our future,
to ensure that our strengths as a location continue to provide a
rich and fertile ground for innovation and growth; from skilled
and available workforce, to dependable and sophisticated infrastructure
to research and development, just to name a few. We invest in our
future because we believe in business - and in Manitoba,
WE
MEAN BUSINESS.
Manitoba is an attractive choice for ICT investment. Whether you are seeking to start,
expand or relocate your technology business, our diverse and modern economy offers a host of
key advantages to drive your success.
- A productive and well-educated ICT workforce available at favourable wage rates
- A large pool of students enrolled in a wide variety of leading ICT related programming at Manitoba's
many educational facilities
- one of the best R&D climates in Canada, with an extensive
network of R&D facilities supporting technology an commercialization
- among the lowest cost cities in 11 leading industrialized countries
for business costs associated with R&D, software and corporate
services (KPMG study 2004);
- Several emerging clusters of research and business expertise in the biomedical informatics,
nanotechnology and telehealth
- An sophisticated telecommunications infrastructure across the province
- A strategic mid-continent location offering key distribution advantages for ICT
manufacturers and distributors as well as timely access to markets coast to coast for
both travel and communications.
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