Why should you have your software unit in WINDSOR, ON: Industrial Research Assistance Program

Industrial Research Assistance Program

For organizations which are
• Incorporated in Canada, 1 to 500 employees
• For profit
• software company
• Willing to grow in Canada
• In full control of its Intellectual Property
• Able to fund its share of project cost

For divisions of large corporations:
- Plant incorporated in its own right
- Under 500 employees
- Own global production mandate
- Own financial mandate
- Show need for assistance

Program Designed to help when
– you have to try to overcome technological problems;
– you have to conduct trials, experiments, or analyses to solve these problems;
– you require experience or technologies not commonly available to your company;
– your work will result in a technological advancement;
– you will own the resulting intellectual property.

Program Objectives:
• New products
• New processes
• Improved existing products or processes
• Growth in terms of new jobs, reduced costs and increased sales
• Make the industry Emerge stronger, more knowledgeable, more competitive, more likely to do R&D and innovate on your own
• Attract and retain best technical employees
• Improve productivity
• Introduce next generation of technology
• Acquire new patents

Services provided under the IRAP:
• Literature search and Patent review
• Marketing study (client share 50% up to $6,000)
• Diagnostic analysis of company operations plans (business, marketing, management and finance) through a university department
• Non-Returnable Contribution for:
• hiring young recent College/University Grad (wages up to 80%)
• for Research and Development (R&D) Projects: contractor labor fees (up to 50%)

(based on the slides of Vladimir Franjo, Industrial Technology Advisor, National Research Council Canada )