NGen Manufacturing Pilot Project Stream – Up to $250k

NGen Manufacturing Program: Receive up to $250k Via the Pilot Project Stream

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Next Generation Manufacturing Canada (NGen) is an industry-led, non-profit organization dedicated to building next generation manufacturing capabilities. It is one of five “superclusters” created from Canada’s Innovation Superclusters Initiative and maintains a pool of funding to award to competitive member-based projects. This pool of funding created the NGen Manufacturing Program, which seeks competitive proposals for…

CAP Funding for Ontario Agricultural Producers

Place to Grow: Agri-Food Innovation Initiative: Apply by January 27, 2020

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The Canadian Agricultural Partnership (CAP) is a federal-provincial-territorial initiative that provides funding from all levels of government to support a growing, investment-driven agriculture and agri-food sector. It provides some funding supports on a national level, while other supports are provided on a province-by-province basis. Ontario’s suite of grants and incentives, CAP Ontario, is specifically designed…

SSHRC Impact Awards – $300K for Canadian Researchers

SSHRC Impact Awards – $300K to Groundbreaking Canadian Researchers

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Canada’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) has granted $300K in funding to pioneering research projects, through the Council’s Impact Awards. The Awards are given out annually to recognize Canada’s outstanding scholars in the social sciences and humanities for work that impacts businesses, communities, and governments. The Impact Awards—which include the SSHRC Gold Medal,…

IDEaS Innovation Funding: $945K for Datametrex AI

Innovation for Defence Excellence & Security: $945K for Datametrex AI

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Toronto company Datametrex AI Ltd. has been awarded $945K from the federal government’s Department of National Defence (DND) to continue the company’s development of its social media discovery and monitoring platform. Funding comes from the DND’s Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security (IDEaS), a federal procurement program that supports the development of defence and security…

FedDev Ontario: $5M for Toronto Indigenous Entrepreneurship Hub

Indigenous Entrepreneurship Hub Gets $5M from FedDev Ontario

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The City of Toronto has received $5M from the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario (FedDev Ontario) to create an Indigenous Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (ICIE). The ICIE will be the first business incubator of its kind in southern Ontario and will provide space and support in Toronto for Indigenous entrepreneurs who are…

Do SMART Goals Improve Employee Performance?

Can SMART Goals Really Improve Employee Performance?

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There is an abundance of research that suggests that helping employees set specific, difficult goals leads to higher performance. In an article in American Psychologist, Edwin Lock and Gary Latham indicate through their investigations on goal setting and motivation that when managers and employers help employees develop clear, challenging goals, the benefits for the organization…

SCALE.AI Supercluster – Funded Projects Announced

SCALE.AI Supercluster Awards Up to $2M for Supply Chain Projects

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As of 2018, SCALE.AI has been one of five business-led superclusters as part of Canada’s Innovative Superclusters Initiative. SCALE.AI (Supply Chains and Logistics Excellence AI), based out of Quebec, specifically focuses on strengthening Canada’s leadership in artificial intelligence, and accelerating industry adoption of enabling technologies through collaborative and incremental projects. In summer of this year,…

Forest Enhancement Society of BC – $27M for 38 Projects

Forest Enhancement Society of BC – $27M for Environmental Projects

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Thirty-eight organizations in BC have collectively received $27M in funding from the Forest Enhancement Society of British Columbia (FESBC). Awarded projects will increase the use of wood fibre that otherwise would have been burned as waste. Instead, the fibre will be transformed into heat energy, electricity, and pulp products (such as paper). Individual FESBC grant…

Key Insights: Canada’s State of Trade 2019: Part 2

Canada’s State of Trade 2019: Part 2 – Trade Diversification for Businesses

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Global Affairs Canada recently released its report Canada’s State of Trade 2019. Authored by the Office of the Chief Economist (OCE), the report overviews the major developments in Canada’s imports and exports in 2018. In Part 1 of my blog on this report, I described the report’s most relevant points about domestic and foreign economies…

Grid Innovation Fund: Up to $500k for Indoor Agriculture

IESO Grid Innovation Fund – Up to $500k for Indoor Agriculture Projects

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Indoor farming is taking off in Ontario, Canada as a whole – in businesses, remote communities, cities with harsh climates, even in homes. It’s not just a greenhouse model; these plants are often grown without soil and in climate-controlled environments. While indoor agriculture reduces the amount of water and energy that goes into agriculture production,…