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Reports to Parliament  We produce a variety of publications on our programs, services and resources available to help entrepreneurs in Atlantic Canada start-up, expand or modernize their business.
 
Corporate Profile
Programs

Item Building a 21st Century Economy, Together: A guide to the programs and services of ACOA - an overview of the programs and services offered by the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA).

Item Building a Stronger Economy Together: A Profile of the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency - ACOA works in cooperation with Atlantic Canadians to increase economic development opportunities for the region. This booklet outlines our programs and services and explains our strategic priorities.

Newsletters

Item ACOA at Work in Your Community is a bilingual publication produced by the office of ACOA New Brunswick. Each edition is themed differently, and highlights successful entrepreneurs and ACOA programs from a wide variety of regions, sectors and industries.

Access to Capital and Information
Programs

Item Seed Capital Program - ACOA’s Seed Capital Program provides loans to start, expand or improve a small business, well as acquire business skills training.

Item The Business Development Program: Business Assistance (PDF: 124 kb, 2 pages) - Looking to finance your project? This program offers small and medium-sized businesses access to capital in the form of interest-free, unsecured loans and provisionally repayable loans.

Item The Business Development Program: Fact Sheets - These fact sheets explain what costs are eligible when applying for an interest-free, unsecured loan through ACOA's Business Development Program.

Tool Kits

Item Your Guide to Services for Business in Atlantic Canada - This guide features selected programs and services that the Government of Canada offers to small and medium-sized businesses in Atlantic Canada.

Item Your Guide to Services for Business for Aboriginal Entrepreneurs - This guide highlights programs and services that the Government of Canada offers to Aboriginal entrepreneurs or small and medium-sized businesses across Canada.

Item ACOA Direct - Your account information, just a click away

Item Planning for Success: Your Guide to Preparing a Business Plan - A business plan describes the future path of your business. Learn how to write a sound business plan using this step-by-step guide.

Item Planning for Success: Your Guide to Preparing a Marketing Plan - Marketing plays a vital role in successful business ventures. Learn how to prepare a detailed marketing plan using this outline.

Item Eco Efficiency - Becoming an Eco-Efficient Business - The efficient use of energy, material and water resources can help your business become and stay more competitive.

Entrepreneurship and Business Skills Development
Programs

Entrepreneurship in Atlantic Canadian University Environments Research (EUE)
A consortium of 18 organisations including Atlantic Canadian university-based business development centres, university entrepreneurship chairs, and other university-based partners have joined forces to produce a major research initiative which identifies needs and developmental opportunities regarding gaps in entrepreneurship education, awareness, attitudes and advocacy at the university level in Atlantic Canada. Funding for the study was provided by the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA) through its Business Development Program. This research was developed by a voluntary non-governmental organization. Please note that access to this resource is provided as a courtesy only and that the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA) is in no way responsible for any errors and/or omissions therein

Programs

Item Women Business Owners in Atlantic Canada: A dynamic and growing force - Women business owners in Atlantic Canada have become a powerful force in the region's economy. Download the Women in Business Initiative document "Women Business Owners in Atlantic Canada: A dynamic and growing force" for various statistics and interesting facts.

Item Women in Business Initiative: Expanding Opportunities - Own your own business or thinking of starting one? ACOA's Women in Business Initiative works to exhance and expand the programs and services available to women in business to help them reach their fullest potential as an entrepreneur.

Item Sell to the World: Women entrepreneurs in Atlantic Canada go global! - Learn what you need to succeed in exporting and meet women entrepreneurs in Atlantic Canada who are making a name on the international stage!

Item Women in Business Initiative: Business Counselling and Community Outreach Program - This program provides women business owners with business counselling and the most current information on programs and services available to women entrepreneurs.

Item Women in Business Initiative: Business Management Training Allowance - This program can provide financial assistance to women business owners wishing to undertake business management training.

Item Women in Business Initiative: Consultant Advisory Services - Based on need, this program may help women business owners to engage additional expert advice to address business opportunities, issues and/or problems.

Item Women in Business Opportunity Program (Access to Financing) - The WBI can help you find potential sources of business financing and improve your ability to access them. This program, in particular, helps lending partners – including 41 Community Business Development Corporations throughout rural Atlantic Canada and several urban-based lenders – to increase financing opportunities that meet your business needs.


Item Young Entrepreneur Development Initiative (YEDI) - YEDI is an ACOA initiative designed to expand and enhance the entrepreneurship training, information and support services available to Atlantic Canadians under 35 years of age.

Publications

Item Protecting the Environment: Entrepreneurs Working Toward a Sustainable Future - This document will be of value to all entrepreneurs who want to improve the way they do business while minimizing their impact on the environment. It will also interest young people who have yet to explore the benefits and opportunities associated with becoming an environmental leader within Atlantic Canada's business community. It shows that it is possible to be an entrepreneur while, at the same time, respecting the environment.

Tool Kits

Item Opportunities Trails: An Atlantic-Wide Connection - Entrepreneurship Educators' Information Guide - This information guide is designed primarily for entrepreneurship educators in the public school (K to 12), community college and university levels. It will help educators identify and access resources for use as teaching and learning tools. Students are also allowed to sneak a peek…they might like it.

Innovation
Programs

Item Atlantic Innovation Fund - The Atlantic Innovation Fund is designed to strengthen the economy of Atlantic Canada by accelerating the development of knowledge-based industries.

Item Innovative Skills Development Initiative - This program provides non-repayable contributions to small and medium-sized businesses in Atlantic Canada to help them improve their innovation management and technology skills.

Tool Kits

Item Innovation Skills Development Initiative - Guide To Preparing The Technical Skills Development Plan (PDF: 180 kb, 13 pages)

Item FASTFORWARD - An Innovation Guide for Small and Medium Enterprises - This guide is designed to help entrepreneurs become more innovative by developing new products, services and technologies.

Item ACOA Business Services: Growing your business through e-commerce - What can e-commerce do for you and your business?

Success Stories

Item Innovation Skills Challenges - Profiles from Atlantic Canada - In order to remain competitive in the world market, it is important for SMEs to meet rapidly changing market needs quickly and efficiently through the application of new technology. This brochure profiles some highly innovative Atlantic Canadian firms that have realized that innovation depends on investing in people and that on-going skills development is essential.

Trade and Investment
Aquaculture Booklet & Fact Sheets

Profiles of Atlantic Canada

Item Atlantic Canada - A Profitable Place to do Business - Atlantic Canada offers the most competitive business cost environment among the G7 countries. A telecommunications leader, a gateway to NAFTA, easy access to major markets and an excellent labour force are just some of the advantages that Atlantic Canada has to offer. Find out why Atlantic Canada is a great place to live and a profitable place to do business.

Item Atlantic Canada Advantage: Your Gateway to Success - Once again, Canada has emerged as the most competitive region examined by KPMG in their 2004 study Competitive Alternatives: The CEO's Guide to International Business Costs. Find out what KPMG has to say about our region and why Atlantic Canada is your gateway to success.

Item Industry Profiles - Atlantic Canada is home to a number of traditional and emerging industries.

Programs

Item Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership – Overview - This program includes five initiatives designed to help Atlantic Canada realize its full potential in both international trade and investment.

    Item Team Canada Atlantic Missions - These trade missions offer export-ready companies the training, partnership and connections they need to succeed in international markets.

    Item Sector Export Strategies - This initiative supports the development of export development strategies for specific industry sectors in Atlantic Canada.

    Item Trade Education and Skills Development - This initiative is designed to help small and medium-sized enterprises aquire the export skills, knowledge and advice they need to successfully carry out an export venture.

    Item Export Internship for Trade Graduates - This program provides employment opportunities to international trade graduates and offers in-house expertise to businesses wanting to capitalize on international markets.

    Item Atlantic Investment Strategy - This initiative accelerates investment research, awareness and promotion activities that internationally position Atlantic Canada as a profitable place to do business.

Item Export Partnering Program - This program is for New Brunswick companies that have never exported or have a new product they want to learn how to export successfully.

Item eXPORT - e-business and export mentoring program - Are you a company located in Nova Scotia interested in exporting and e-commerce? Then check out this export mentoring program offered by ACOA. (brochure)

Tool Kits

Item Procurement - Find out how ACOA’s New Brunswick office can help you better understand the opportunities associated with selling to the Government of Canada.

Item ACOA Business Services: Growing your business through exporting - Thinking of expanding into new markets? Learn what exporting can do for your business.

Success Stories

Item JEDI (Joint Economic Development Initiative) - Learn more how JEDI works to stimulate economic development and promote the well-being among Aboriginal people throughout New Brunswick.

Item Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency...In Tune With Music - In celebration of the 15th Anniversary of the East Coast Music Awards, this brochure hightlights the importance of cultural industries on local economies.

Item The Canada/Atlantic Provinces Cooperation Agreement on International Business Development - Report on Activities and Results, 2000 (PDF: 1,280 kb, 8 pages) - This booklet reports on the success of this federal/provincial agreement in promoting export development activities for small and medium-sized businesses in Atlantic Canada.

Newsletter

Item International Business Development in Atlantic Canada - This bi-monthly newsletter is published by the Canada/Atlantic Provinces COOPERATION Agreement on International Business Development in an effort to maintain an awareness of opportunities and activities supported by this agreement.

Community Economic Development
Programs

Item Innovative Communities Fund - This fund invests in strategic projects that build the economies of Atlantic Canada's communities.

Item JEDI - Joint Economic Development Initiative - Learn how JEDI works to stimulate economic development and promote the well-being of Aboriginal people throughout New Brunswick.
Infrastructure Canada Program
Newsletter

Item Canada-Nova Scotia Infrastructure Program: Communities First, Fall 2003 - (350 KB, 4 pages) - Welcome to the newsletter of the Canada-Nova Scotia Infrastructure Program. This is where you can read updates on the progress of the program, as well as the very real stories about how it's affecting the daily lives of people in communities throughout the province.

Item Canada-Nova Scotia Infrastructure Program: Communities First, Fall 2002 - (296 KB, 4 pages) - Welcome to the newsletter of the Canada-Nova Scotia Infrastructure Program. This is where you can read updates on the progress of the program, as well as the very real stories about how it's affecting the daily lives of people in communities throughout the province.

Some of the documents available on this site are in Adobe Acrobat format. To read Adobe Acrobat files you need Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.0 (or later) on your system.

If the Adobe download site is not accessible to you, you can download Acrobat Reader from an accessible page. If the accessibility of PDF is a concern, you can have the file converted to HTML or ASCII text by using one of the access services provide by Adobe.


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