Growing Forward 2 (GF2) is a five year $417 million Ontario funding program that supports agriculture producers, processors, and companies in collaboration. The Project Implementation stream funds capital expenditures and implementation costs. Year One of the program is coming to… Read more »
EMC Seminar with Guest Speaker from NorthBridge Consultants
Excellence in Manufacturing Consortium, Canada’s largest manufacturing consortium, is hosting a Strategic Interest Group event on January the 23rd, 2014 (9am) at Russell Industries Corporation. Jeff Mitobe, from NorthBridge Consultants, will be providing general details about the SR&ED program as… Read more »
Canadian Video Game Industry Continues to Thrive
It may come as no surprise that Canada now ranks 3rd worldwide in the video game industry according to the Entertainment Software Association of Canada. With game studios like Ubisoft producing blockbuster titles such as Assassin’s Creed 3, and a… Read more »
Foreign Markets to Feed on Prawns from St. John’s
The Canadian government recently announced that it will partner with the Canadian Association of Prawn Producers to market cold-water prawns to foreign markets such as Russia and China. The partnership is meant to boost Canada’s reputation as a producer of… Read more »
Exporting to New Emerging Markets
The current emerging economies that businesses are aspiring to export to are Brazil, Russia, India and China or more commonly known as BRIC. However a recent article in the Toronto Star indicates that Mexico and other Latin American countries are… Read more »
Digital Media Funding – A Case Study
Kibooco is a Vancouver digital media start-up developing an interactive platform for children to design and create their own books. As a start-up, the team behind the Kibooco vision had to develop a strategy to finance their project, and looked… Read more »
Interactive Digital Media Funding – CMF Case Studies
On Monday, the Canada Media Fund (CMF) announced a $14 million round of funding to 25 interactive digital media (IDM) projects as part of their Experimental Stream. CMF’s track record in its three years of doling out digital media funding… Read more »
CMF at the Banff World Media Festival
The Canada Media Fund (CMF) was in full-force attendance at the Banff World Media Festival which ran this week from June 10 to 13 in Banff, Alberta. CMF used the festival to launch Canada on Screen – a website meant… Read more »
Reactions to The U.S. Bioeconomy Blueprint: Innovation and concerns loom on the horizon.
The 2012 U.S. National Bioeconomy Blueprint was announced on April 26th with the purpose of assessing strategic objectives to maximise on the U.S. bioeconomy potential and to highlight ongoing efforts to meet those objectives. However, many are concerned that the blueprint predominantly… Read more »