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FASTFORWARD - An Innovation Guide for Small and Medium Enterprises

For companies to succeed in the 21st century they will have to become increasingly innovative. Developing new products and services that are currently unavailable in the market place will give businesses a competitive advantage critical to capturing market share and maintaining good profit margins. ACOA is working to encourage and assist small and medium-sized enterprises to become more innovative in the development of new products, services and technologies. FASTFORWARD - An Innovation Guide for Small and Medium Enterprises has been designed to assist entrepreneurs in this process.

PDF FASTFORWARD - An Innovation Guide for Small and Medium Enterprises
(PDF: 10.2 MB / 97 pages)

You can print the following sections of the Guide separately:

PDF The Innovation Quiz
(PDF: 69KB / 1 page)
PDF New Product Development Assessment Checklist
(PDF: 88KB / 3 pages)

You can also download the following forms in Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel. Save them to your computer and complete them at your own convenience.

Microsoft Word Document 3.4 - New Product Development Worksheet
(Document: 64KB / 3 pages)
Microsoft Excel 3.5 - New Product Development Timeline
(Excel Workbook: 36KB)
Microsoft Excel 3.6 - New Product Development Commercialization Budget
(Excel Workbook: 41KB)
Microsoft Word Document 3.7 - Technical Budget Summary
(Document: 44KB / 3 pages)

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