Deadline: 19 June 2024
Proposals are now open to organizations from Canada and India who wish to form project consortia to perform collaborative projects focused on developing innovative products, processes or technology-based services in clean and green technologies, clean energy, digital technologies, health and bio-sciences, food and agriculture technologies, smart infrastructure, advanced manufacturing, and waste management.
Working together, the governments of Canada and India aim to foster and support collaborative industrial research and development (R&D) projects with a high potential for commercialization.
Sectors of Focus
Projects must focus on 1 or more of the following themes:
- Advanced manufacturing
- Smart factory and smart manufacturing
- Advanced materials
- Automotive manufacturing
- Robotics and automation
- “Industry 4.0” enablers (additive manufacturing, near net shape manufacturing, assistive robotics and process automation, industrial IoT implementation)
- Clean and green technologies
- Water and waste water management
- Smart grid and energy storage
- Battery-related technologies
- Renewable energy
- Smart cities
- Hydrogen technologies
- Waste management
- Waste-to-energy
- Electric vehicles
- Carbon capture
- Energy storage
- Digital technologies
- Artificial intelligence for industry
- Cyber security
- Smart vehicle
- Smart cities
- Health and biosciences
- Pharmaceuticals
- Health informatics
- Digital health
- Medical devices
- Mobile health
- Food and agriculture technologies
- Crop development
- Food processing
- Soil irrigation and monitoring
- Precision agriculture
- Supply chain optimization
- Smart infrastructure
- Artificial intelligence (AI)
- Internet of things (IoT)
- Geo-information systems
- Smart mobility
- Smart grids
- Quantum technologies
Funding
- Eligible Canadian SMEs may receive up to 50% reimbursement of eligible project costs up to a maximum total funding amount of $600,000 CAD over 12 to 36 months.
Eligible Requirements
To be considered for funding, applicants must form a project consortium and develop a collaborative research and development (R&D) project that meets the following criteria:
- The Canadian small or medium‑sized enterprise (SME) applicant must:
- be an incorporated, profit oriented small or medium sized business in Canada
- have 500 or fewer full time equivalent employees
- pursue growth and profit by developing and commercializing innovative, technology driven new or improved products, services or processes in Canada
- have a differentiated and protectable technology with commercial potential in global markets
- have sufficient working capital (e.g. revenue, investment etc.) and resources to undertake a multi-year R&D collaboration and commercialize the results
- be committed to significant growth through international market expansion
- Preference may be given to SME applicants who:
- have a minimum of 15 full‑time equivalent employees
- have commercialized 1 or more products domestically or internationally
- have greater than $500,000 CAD in annual revenue
- The project consortium must include at least:
- 1 incorporated Canadian SME
- 1 eligible Indian partner
- The parties listed above must be unrelated parties (i.e. no direct, indirect, beneficial or constructive ownership interest between these parties)
- The project partners that form the consortium must agree on a plan addressing intellectual property rights and intent to commercialize.
For more information, visit Government of Canada.
