Are you missing opportunities to prospect, shorten the sales cycle, increase close rates, and open doors to decision-makers? Training is essential to ensure your sales team is agile and can respond efficiently to new opportunities. Few companies provide consistent training for salespeople, which in turn reduces their ability to offer great service to clients and…
For many businesses, entering a new market is a risky, time consuming, costly, and stressful endeavor. While businesses that already export can benefit from previous experience, existing processes, and internal know-how when entering a new market, there are still many risks in export expansion. Risk is amplified for businesses entering their first export market. While…
The government of Canada has recently awarded Prince Edward Island-based company Island Water Technologies with a federal government contract and research and development grants. This financial support will help the business’ innovative water technology be tested in real-life situations in preparation for entering the marketplace. Funding will allow the company to install nine bio-electrode sensors…
The Canadian International Innovation Program (CIIP) is a research and development funding program that incentivizes global commercialization partnerships. Through the program, Canadian businesses can find international innovators to help further develop and commercialize technologies. Funding offsets a portion of eligible costs associated with technology adaptation, validation, and co-development projects. CIIP research and development funding reduces the…
The Government of Canada has awarded 14 innovative companies government funding for clean technology development projects. These cleantech projects will create jobs, provide solutions for a variety of environmental challenges, and help Canada meet its climate change goals. 14 Canadian companies have received a combined total of $58,600,000 in cleantech grants from the Sustainable Development…
Ottawa-based communications technology firm Martello Technologies has recently received federal government funding to accelerate the development of their network performance management services. In today’s age of rapid digital transformation, an increasing need for bandwidth-intensive real-time services, such as video streaming, has generated a network performance management challenge; which Martello saw an opportunity to capitalize on….
In 2016, the installed wind power in Canada was ~12,000 MW (6% of the electricity demand), with Ontario and Quebec generating the highest share. Energy created from the wind is shifting and irregular, making energy storage very important to not only maintain order, but also to address the geographical gap between energy supply and demand….
Before connected and autonomous vehicles (C/AVs) are deployed on Canadian roads, there must be significant improvements to how these systems work. Individual technologies must be improved, and their integration needs to be thoroughly tested to ensure driver safety. While innovators have historically had few opportunities to develop and test connected and autonomous vehicle technologies, a…
Ontario’s innovation landscape is continuing to grow and transform at a rapid pace. This creates a demand for early-stage, high-growth businesses to have access to incubation space and entrepreneurial expertise that can support the development of competitive products and services in service of both national and international markets. Serving these companies and offering resources for…
Canada is the world’s largest supplier of pulses, with the Canadian pulse industry accounting for $3.4B in exports to 126 countries in 2017. Canada’s most commonly grown pulses are lentils, rowing peas, chickpeas, beans, and faba beans. To support pulse farmers and exporting opportunities, the federal government is continuing to invest in the growth of…