Innovation

Guides | Fact Sheets | Programs and Services | Resources

Guides

Financing Innovation

This guide is the extended version of the Canadian Technology Network's SME Financing Chart (PDF file) and it formalizes the steps required to complete an innovative project or a project with innovative components.

It covers planning, the various types and sources of financing and prerequisites. It also offers case studies.

Other Guides

• Info-Guide – Innovation / R&D;
• Financing a Business

Fact Sheets

• Can You Make Money With Your Idea or Invention
• Critical Assessment Factors for New Products
• Product Licensing

Programs and Services

• Innovation and Technology
• Intellectual Property
• IT and E-Business
• Research and Development

Resources

BALISE—MDEIE

This tool allows executives of manufacturing SMEs to gain exposure to comparative analysis (benchmarking) and to assess the performance of their business. (In French only)

Canadian Resource Guide for High Performance Manufacturing—Industry Canada

This guide is designed to provide a relevant and up-to-date source of information to assist Canadian manufacturers in finding the tools, people and resources they need to improve their manufacturing performance.

Fastforward: An Innovation Guide for Small and Medium Enterprises—Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency

This guide offers information on the innovation process and how to effectively bring a new product to market.

Guide budgétaire marketing—Canadian Technology Network

This guide will assist emerging innovative SME's in Québec to structure their marketing department. (In French only)

Innovation Management Toolkit—Industry Canada

This toolkit is a set of interactive, easy-to-use Internet-based tools. It introduces approaches to improving innovation used by global leaders to managers of smaller companies.

Intelligence Index CI & Tools—Fuld & Company

This site contains tools developed by Fuld & Company, a world leader in the field of business and competitive intelligence.