Innovation Grants Available in the Canadian Prairies for 2026
Accelerate R&D, commercialization, and scale‑up with targeted public funding. Navigate federal, provincial, and local programs efficiently.
Across Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba, innovation grants help organizations fund research, pilot projects, product validation, and scale‑up. Programs span federal agencies like NRC IRAP and PrairiesCan, provincial bodies such as Alberta Innovates, Innovation Saskatchewan, and Research Manitoba, and sector initiatives across agri‑food, cleantech, digital, and manufacturing. This directory explains key funding types, eligibility, and how to apply so applicants can secure non‑dilutive financing.

Innovation in Quantum Technologies — Stream 4
- Maximum amount : 1,000,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Information and cultural industries
- Professional, scientific and technical services

Innovation program — Call for mobilizing projects on the development of tomorrow's transport technologies
- From $4 to $10,000,000
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Transportation and warehousing

Tourism Innovation Program — Stream 1 - Call for proposals to support the development of innovative solutions
- Maximum amount : 150,000 $
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Accommodation and food services

MRC Maskinongé — Social Economy Fund (ES)
- Maximum amount : 15,000 $
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Other services (except public administration)

Genomics Innovation to Commercialization Program
- From $300,000 to $900,000
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance

MRC Joliette — Assistance fund for the establishment and start-up of structuring companies (FAIDES)
- Maximum amount : 50,000 $
- Up to 3% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Information and cultural industries
- Professional, scientific and technical services

Ontario Agri-food Research Initiative (OAFRIP)
- No Condition
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

- Maximum amount : 25,000 $
- Up to 40% of project cost
- All industries

MRC Papineau — Consultancy fund (FEC)
- Maximum amount : 5,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Professional, scientific and technical services

MTRIC — SI2TEC – Feasibility Studies
- Maximum amount : 75,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Manufacturing

MRC Charlevoix-Est — Cultural Development
- Minimum amount : 500 $
- Up to 80% of project cost
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

MRC d'Avignon — Local Investment Funds (FLI) and Local Solidarity Funds (FLS)
- Maximum amount : 150,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Retail trade
- Information and cultural industries
- Professional, scientific and technical services

Call for innovation projects in agritechnologies
- Maximum amount : 2,000,000 $
- Up to 30% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

eCommerce North Tech Accelerator
- No Condition
- Retail trade
- Information and cultural industries
- Professional, scientific and technical services

Quebec Fisheries Fund — Infrastructure
- Maximum amount : 2,500,000 $
- Up to 100% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

MRC Charlevoix-Est — Signature Innovation Fund
- Maximum amount : 150,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Transportation and warehousing
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Accommodation and food services
- Other services (except public administration)

MRC Charlevoix — Special Projects Fund
- Maximum amount : 5,000 $
- Up to 35% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Construction
- Manufacturing
- Retail trade

SODEXPORT — Component 5: Strategic initiatives
- Maximum amount : 100,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Information and cultural industries
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

RCM de la Mitis — Component 3 : “Signature Innovation” Projects
- No Condition
- Information and cultural industries
- Educational services
- Public administration

Enabling Accessibility Fund – Youth Innovation Component
- Maximum amount : 12,000 $
- Educational services
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Accommodation and food services
- Other services (except public administration)

Innovative Communities Fund (ICF)
- No Condition
- All industries

MRC des Chenaux — Economic Diversification Fund (FDÉ)
- Maximum amount : 15,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

Estrie — FRR – Component 1
- Minimum amount : 100,000 $
- Up to 80% of project cost
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Other services (except public administration)

Applied Research and Development Grants — Industrial Partner
- Maximum amount : 150,000 $
- All industries

MRC de L'Assomption — FLI/FLS
- Maximum amount : 100,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- All industries
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Genomic Innovations: Energy and Environmental Solutions
- From $300,000 to $750,000
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
- Utilities
- Professional, scientific and technical services

MRC La Vallée-de-l'Or — Quebec Fund for Social Initiatives (FQIS)
- Up to 90% of project cost
- Health care and social assistance

RCM de la Mitis — Component 4 : Support for revitalization and intermunicipal cooperation
- No Condition
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Transportation and warehousing
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

CQRDA — PSO-v2A
- From $100,000 to $350,000
- Up to 80% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Educational services

Technology Leadership: Genomics stream
- Up to 45% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing

La Vallée-du-Richelieu Agricultural Microcredit Fund
- Maximum amount : 10,000 $
- Up to 20% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

RCM de la Vallée-Du-Richelieu — Futurpreneur Canada
- Maximum amount : 60,000 $
- Up to 20% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

Game Changer Pitch Competition
- No Condition
- Utilities
- Information and cultural industries
- Professional, scientific and technical services

Évolution-Compétences — Partnership for training and innovation
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Educational services

RCM Vallée-Du-Richelieu — Programme Innovation (PI)
- Maximum amount : 10,000 $
- Up to 20% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Information and cultural industries
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Other services (except public administration)

RCM Vallée-Du-Richelieu — Fonds d'appui à l'entrepreneuriat collectif (FAEC)
- Maximum amount : 10,000 $
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

RCM Vallée-Du-Richelieu — Fonds de soutien à l'entrepreneuriat
- Maximum amount : 5,000 $
- Up to 20% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing
- Retail trade
- Information and cultural industries

Elevate Women+
- No Condition
- Information and cultural industries
- Professional, scientific and technical services

Project Seed Funding in Grid Innovation
- From $50,000 to $150,000
- Utilities
- Professional, scientific and technical services

MTRIC — PARTENAR-IA — Academic
- Maximum amount : 1,500,000 $
- Up to 35% of project cost
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
- Manufacturing

Tax Credit for Pre-Competitive Private Partnership Research
- Maximum amount : 3,000,000 $
- Up to 30% of project cost
- Professional, scientific and technical services

Fund for Innovation and Technology (FIT)
- Maximum amount : 25,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- All industries

Genome British Columbia — GeneSolve Program
- Maximum amount : 250,000 $
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
- Utilities
- Professional, scientific and technical services

MRC Haut-Richelieu — FRR – Stream 3
- Maximum amount : 2,139,780 $
- Up to 80% of project cost
- Public administration

Ventures at Coralus
- Up to 45% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Health care and social assistance
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Other services (except public administration)

Genome British Columbia — Sector Innovation Program
- From $250,000 to $500,000
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance
- Public administration

Défi-Québec, Sustainable City
- Maximum amount : 50,000 $
- Manufacturing
- Transportation and warehousing
- Finance and insurance
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Social economy enterprises — Support for structuring projects
- Up to 80% of project cost
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Other services (except public administration)

Genome British Columbia — Genomics Innovation Fund – Intake 002
- Maximum amount : 250,000 $
- Professional, scientific and technical services

Laurentides Tourism — Regional Partnership and Digital Transformation Agreement in Tourism (EPRTNT) – Attractions, activities, and amenities
- From $30,000 to $95,000
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Accommodation and food services
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Genome British Columbia — Societal Issues Competition
- Maximum amount : 250,000 $
- Health care and social assistance

MRC L'Islet — SME Propulsion Measurement
- From $3,000 to $25,000
- Up to 35% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Accommodation and food services

Évolution-Compétences — Call for projects Parcours Exploration
- Up to 100% of project cost
- Construction
- Manufacturing
- Information and cultural industries
- Professional, scientific and technical services

APCHQ — Affordable Housing Innovation Fund
- No Condition
- Construction
- Finance and insurance
- Real estate and rental and leasing
- Health care and social assistance

Northern Ontario Development Program — Community Economic Development
- Up to 33% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
- Utilities
- Manufacturing

MRC La Vallée-de-l’Or — Regions and Rurality Fund – Component 3 – Market Gardening Program
- Maximum amount : 150,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

PME MTL — Innovation Investment Fund — Loans
- Maximum amount : 150,000 $
- Up to 80% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Information and cultural industries
- Professional, scientific and technical services

MRC Caniapiscau — FDE
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
- Manufacturing
- Information and cultural industries

Energy Innovation Program – Advancing Canada’s clean energy future
- No Condition
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
- Utilities
- Manufacturing
- Transportation and warehousing

CFIN — Unpuzzling: Foodtech Ontario
- No Condition
- Manufacturing
- Wholesale trade
- Retail trade
- Transportation and warehousing

Canada’s Next Sustainable Changemaker Challenge
- No Condition
- Utilities
- Construction
- Real estate and rental and leasing
- Professional, scientific and technical services

Genomics integration program – Agriculture and biofood, forestry and environment
- From $50,000 to $150,000
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
- Utilities
- Professional, scientific and technical services

- Maximum amount : 1,500,000 $
- Up to 40% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Educational services

Strategic Science Fund (SSF)
- Up to 15% of project cost
- Information and cultural industries
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance

BC Scientific Research & Experimental Development Tax Credit
- Maximum amount : 3,000,000 $
- Up to 10% of project cost
- Professional, scientific and technical services

Tourism Innovation Program — Stream 3 - Networking with regional innovation organisations
- No Condition
- Information and cultural industries
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Accommodation and food services

SODEC — Support for innovative initiatives
- Maximum amount : 500,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Information and cultural industries

MRC Joliette — Business Assistance Fund (FAE) – Stream 3
- Maximum amount : 3,000 $
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

MRC Marguerite-D'Youville — Business Support Fund – Stream 2
- Maximum amount : 10,000 $
- Up to 20% of project cost
- Health care and social assistance
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

CQRDA — PSO-International
- Maximum amount : 1,500,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance

Open Innovation Subsidy Program for start-up companies
- Maximum amount : 50,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Transportation and warehousing
- Information and cultural industries
- Health care and social assistance
- Accommodation and food services

Saguenay Promotion — FRR – Business Support
- Maximum amount : 20,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
- Utilities
- Construction

MRC Kamouraska — Support Program for Innovative Projects for Cultural Development and Community Animation
- Maximum amount : 4,000 $
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Développement Vaudreuil-Soulanges — FDEÉS
- Maximum amount : 10,000 $
- Up to 70% of project cost
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

MRC Témiscouata — Signature Innovation Fund - Component 3 - Rurality and Region Fund
- Maximum amount : 218,798 $
- Up to 80% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
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MRC Abitibi-Ouest — Emergence Fund
- Maximum amount : 25,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- All industries

Call for Projects on the Procurement & Conditioning of Forest Biomass for Bioenergy Production
- Maximum amount : 200,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- All industries

- Maximum amount : 500,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- All industries

- Minimum amount : 50,000 $
- Up to 100% of project cost
- All industries

City of Lévis — Desjardins Business Fund (FDE)
- Maximum amount : 100,000 $
- Manufacturing
- Retail trade
- Information and cultural industries
- Accommodation and food services

MRC L'Islet — Support fund for creative caravans
- Maximum amount : 100,000 $
- Up to 75% of project cost
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Canadian Semiconductor R&D Partnering Delegation to France
- Maximum amount : 15,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services

innovÉÉ — Primo-adoptants
- Maximum amount : 75,000 $
- Up to 60% of project cost
- Professional, scientific and technical services

PME MTL — Subsidies to support social economy initiatives
- From $5,000 to $50,000
- Up to 80% of project cost
- All industries

MRC Arthabaska — Social Economy Business Development Fund (FDEÉS)
- No Condition
- Manufacturing

innovÉÉ — PSO
- Maximum amount : 500,000 $
- Up to 40% of project cost
- Utilities
- Transportation and warehousing
- Professional, scientific and technical services

MRC de Montcalm — New Entrepreneur Fund
- Maximum amount : 14,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Retail trade
- Information and cultural industries
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

MRC de Vaudreuil-Soulanges — Fonds de développement des communautés (FDC)
- Up to 70% of project cost
- Transportation and warehousing
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance

Innovation in Quantum Technologies — Stream 1
- Maximum amount : 150,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Professional, scientific and technical services

Innovation Canada — Innovation Advisors in QC
- No Condition
- All industries

Genomic Applications Partnership Program (GAPP) — Alberta
- From $100,000 to $2,000,000
- Up to 33% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Health care and social assistance

MRC Marguerite-D'Youville — Business Support Fund – Stream 4
- Maximum amount : 10,000 $
- Up to 10% of project cost
- All industries

- Minimum amount : 50,000 $
- All industries

Tax Holiday for Foreign Researchers
- No Condition
- Professional, scientific and technical services

SADC Lac-St-Jean Ouest — Tourist Loan
- Maximum amount : 50,000 $
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Accommodation and food services

Rio Tinto Aluminium Valley Fund
- Maximum amount : 25,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Manufacturing

Génome Québec — Genomics Integration Program – Human Health
- From $50,000 to $200,000
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Health care and social assistance

Protein Industries Canada — Artificial Intelligence
- Up to 45% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing

Xecs – electronic components and systems Call 5 call for proposals
- No Condition
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services

MRC Maskinongé — Programme DÉPART
- No Condition
- All industries