NRC Industry Partnership Facilities (NRC-IPF)

Industry Partnership Facilities (IPFs) can offer unique services to innovative technology-driven small and medium enterprises (SMEs). IPFs (incubators/accelerators) exist to foster and assist new ventures using NRC technologies or expertise, thereby providing economic gain to Canada. IPFs will provide facilities, services and professional expertise that promote the establishment of a successful venture.

Eligibility Criteria

To be considered, an applicant must be a small- to medium-size business with a novel product or process preferably based on NRC technologies. The applicant may be either exploring a venture with plans to develop a new business or looking at expanding an existing enterprise into a new area. Consulting, wholesale or retail businesses will not be considered for admission. Selection will be based on a match between the candidate's business and the entry criteria.

Summary

NRC offers companies the chance to co-locate at world-class NRC research space located across the country. Known as Industry Partnership Facilities (IPFs), these facilities offer unique services to innovative technology-driven companies.

IPF residents have an unmatched opportunity to access in one place outstanding research facilities, research expertise and services offered by the NRC Industrial Research Assistance Program and the NRC Canada Institute for Scientific Information. Locating at an NRC facility also provides access to all-important networking opportunities at both the international and national level.

Manitoba Contact(s):
See National Contact. 

National Contact(s):
Mr. Jean-Jacques Ledoux
Manager, Industry Partnership Facility
National Research Council Canada
Building M-50, Montreal Road
Ottawa, Ontario  K1A 0R6
Telephone: (613) 998-6755
Fax: (613) 993-8054
E-mail: Jean-Jacques.Ledoux@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca
Web site: http://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/main_e.html