Call for Proposals: Industrial R-D Collaboration Projects (Canada)

This initiative focuses on five key sectors: advanced manufacturing, including smart factory and smart manufacturing, advanced materials, automotive manufacturing, robotics, and automation; clean technologies, including water and wastewater management, smart grid and energy storage, battery-related technologies, renewable energy, hydrogen technologies, and carbon management; digital technologies, including artificial intelligence for industry, cybersecurity, smart vehicle, and smart cities; health and biosciences, including pharmaceuticals, digital health, medical devices, and mobile health; and quantum technologies, including quantum computing, quantum communication, quantum sensing, cryptography, imaging, security, and quantum materials.

Funding is available for up to $500,000 CAD per Canadian SME over 12 to 30 months. This opportunity encourages international collaboration, innovation, and the development of commercially viable technologies that strengthen industrial competitiveness between Canada and South Korea.

Eligible applicants must form a project consortium and develop a collaborative R&D project. Canadian SME applicants must be incorporated, profit-oriented enterprises with 500 or fewer full-time equivalent employees, have been in operation for at least 12 months, and maintain a minimum of five full-time equivalent employees in Canada. Applicants must develop and commercialize innovative, technology-driven products, services, or processes, possess differentiated and protectable technology with global market potential, and demonstrate both financial and operational capacity to conduct international multi-year R&D while maintaining regular operations. Preference may be given to SMEs with at least 15 full-time employees, prior international product commercialization, and annual sales revenue exceeding $500,000 CAD.

For more information, visit Government of Canada.