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.

CED — Regional Homebuilding Innovation Initiative
- Up to 90% of project cost
- Construction
- Manufacturing

Biofood Innovation Program Component 3 – Business innovation in the commercial fisheries and aquaculture sector
- From $20,000 to $210,000
- Up to 90% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing

innovÉÉ — PARTENAR-IA — Industry
- Maximum amount : 1,500,000 $
- Up to 35% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
- Construction
- Manufacturing

Sustainable New Agri-Food Products & Productivity Program — Clean Tech in Agri-Food
- Maximum amount : 25,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

Manitoba — Interactive Digital Media Tax Credit
- Up to 40% of project cost
- Information and cultural industries

Workforce Training and Employment — Labour Market Partnerships
- No Condition
- All industries

BDC Capital — Venture Capital
- No Condition
- Manufacturing
- Information and cultural industries
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Health care and social assistance

- Maximum amount : 30,000 $
- Health care and social assistance

Community Futures Alberta — Entrepreneurs with Disabilities
- No Condition
- All industries

Eurogia Cluster's 29th Call for proposals – Clean Technologies
- No Condition
- Utilities
- Construction
- Manufacturing
- Information and cultural industries

Innovative Solutions Canada — Zero emissions technologies for industrial process heating
- Maximum amount : 1,500,000 $
- Manufacturing

CMF — Distributor Program
- Maximum amount : 500,000 $
- Up to 49% of project cost
- Information and cultural industries

Northern Industries Innovation Fund
- From $10 to $50,000
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
- Manufacturing
- Transportation and warehousing

Economic Diversification Fund (FDE) for the MRC des Sources territory
- No Condition
- Construction
- Manufacturing
- Wholesale trade
- Retail trade

- Maximum amount : 75,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services
- Other services (except public administration)

Innovation Guelph — Rhyze Up! Program
- From $200,000 to $10,000
- All industries

- Maximum amount : 200 $
- Educational services

Support Policy For Businesses
- Maximum amount : 40,000 $
- Up to 80% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Accommodation and food services

Research Funding Programs
- Maximum amount : 750,000 $
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Health care and social assistance

Southern Ontario Fund for Investment in Innovation (SOFII)
- From $150,000 to $500,000
- All industries

Saskatchewan Arts Board Grants
- No Condition
- Information and cultural industries
- Educational services
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

OTF — Family Innovations Test Grant
- Maximum amount : 100,000 $
- Up to 10% of project cost
- Health care and social assistance

- No Condition
- All industries

CAAIN — 2024 – 2025 Open Competition
- Maximum amount : 3,000,000 $
- Up to 40% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

Anges Québec Capital Fund
- No Condition
- All industries
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Enabling Agricultural Research and Innovation
- Maximum amount : 90,000 $
- Up to 35% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

Community Futures Manitoba — Indigenous Business Development Services
- Maximum amount : 7,500 $
- All industries

Nova Scotia innovation equity tax credit
- From $1,000 to $5,000,000
- Up to 45% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Health care and social assistance

- Maximum amount : 20,000 $
- Up to 40% of project cost
- All industries

CICE 2023 Directed Call for Innovation — Measurement, Monitoring and Verification (MMV) of Carbon Management
- No Condition
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Utilities
- Manufacturing
- Transportation and warehousing

Alberta Innovates — Water Innovation Program
- No Condition
- Professional, scientific and technical services

Genomic Applications Partnership Program (GAPP)
- From $100,000 to $6,000,000
- Up to 1% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Health care and social assistance
- Public administration

Tourism Market Readiness Subsidy Program
- Maximum amount : 2,500 $
- Up to 25% of project cost
- Accommodation and food services

Innovation Canada — Innovation Advisors
- No Condition
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing
- Information and cultural industries
- Professional, scientific and technical services

Technology showcase - pre-commercialization of innovation
- Maximum amount : 250,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing
- Information and cultural industries
- Finance and insurance

Alberta Innovates — Tech2Farm
- Maximum amount : 500,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

BDC Financing — Small Business Loan
- Maximum amount : 350,000 $
- All industries

Initiative for Sustainable Aviation Technology (INSAT)
- Up to 36% of project cost
- Transportation and warehousing

Canada's Ocean Supercluster — Program Innovation ecosystem projects and activities
- Up to 75% of project cost
- All industries

Alberta Innovates — Digital Innovation in Clean Energy (DICE)
- Maximum amount : 250,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction

Springboard for innovation
- Up to 66% of project cost
- Educational services

Green Construction through Wood (GCWood) Program
- Maximum amount : 5,000,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Construction

Call for projects for digital cultural development in the Canadian Francophonie
- Maximum amount : 25,000 $
- Up to 75% of project cost
- Information and cultural industries
- Educational services
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Ascension competition
- Maximum amount : 60,000 $
- Construction
- Manufacturing
- Retail trade
- Transportation and warehousing

Bee BC Program
- Maximum amount : 7,000 $
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

CAAIN — 2025 Broadacre Cropping Program
- Maximum amount : 600,000 $
- Up to 40% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

Forest Biomass Program — Exploring biomass pathways stream
- Maximum amount : 130,000 $
- Up to 80% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

Agri-Industry Development & Advancement — Business Development (Agricultural Organizations and Associations)
- Maximum amount : 100,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

Livestock Strategy Program — Strategic Livestock Industry
- Maximum amount : 75,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

Alberta Innovates — Agri-Food and Bioindustrial Innovation Program
- Maximum amount : 500,000 $
- Up to 75% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Construction
- Manufacturing
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Digital Health Sandbox
- Maximum amount : 300,000 $
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance
- Public administration

Economic Development Fund — Tier 3
- Maximum amount : 500,000 $
- Up to 75% of project cost
- All industries

CMF-SODEC — Corporate Financial Program for Television Production
- Maximum amount : 500,000 $
- Up to 75% of project cost
- Information and cultural industries

Alberta Innovates — Health Innovations
- Maximum amount : 200,000 $
- Up to 75% of project cost
- Health care and social assistance

NRC — Canadian Centre for Housing Technology
- No Condition
- Utilities
- Construction
- Manufacturing
- Real estate and rental and leasing

- Maximum amount : 6,000,000 $
- Utilities
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services

OMIF — Music Industry Initiatives
- From $10,000 to $300,000
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Information and cultural industries
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Call for innovative projects in artificial intelligence: collaborative industrial research and support for innovative entrepreneurship
- Maximum amount : 1,500,000 $
- Professional, scientific and technical services

Eurogia Cluster's 30th Call for proposals – Clean Technologies
- Up to 70% of project cost
- Utilities
- Manufacturing
- Information and cultural industries
- Professional, scientific and technical services

Humami Center — A structured approach to innovation and commercialization based on the specific needs of institutions
- No Condition
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing
- Wholesale trade
- Retail trade

Atlantic Innovation Fund — Private Sector Businesses
- No Condition
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Educational services
- Other services (except public administration)

Rogers Indigenous Film Fund Program
- From $5,000 to $20,000
- Up to 80% of project cost
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Northern and Indigenous Crime Prevention Fund (NICPF)
- No Condition
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

NRC — Wind tunnel testing facility
- No Condition
- Manufacturing
- Transportation and warehousing
- Professional, scientific and technical services

PacifiCan — Regional Economic Growth through Innovation — Regional Innovation Ecosystems
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing
- Information and cultural industries
- Professional, scientific and technical services

Regional Economic Growth Through Innovation & Southern Ontario Prosperity Program
- Minimum amount : 125,000 $
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing
- Information and cultural industries
- Professional, scientific and technical services

Launch Lab — Entrepreneurs In Residence (EIR)
- No Condition
- Professional, scientific and technical services

OVIN — TalentEdge Internship
- No Condition
- Manufacturing
- Transportation and warehousing
- Information and cultural industries
- Professional, scientific and technical services
Manitoba Mineral Development Fund
- Maximum amount : 300,000 $
- Up to 30% of project cost
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction

Alberta — Value-Added Program
- From $50,000 to $250,000
- Up to 25% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing

BC On-Farm Technology Adoption Program
- From $300 to $150,000
- Up to 65% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

CRIBIQ — PSO-Bioproducts and bioprocesses
- Maximum amount : 1,500,000 $
- Up to 40% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services

NGen — Feasibility Studies
- From $100,000 to $500,000
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Educational services

Agriculture Research and Innovation — Applied Research (Agribusiness and Academic Institutions)
- Maximum amount : 80,000 $
- Up to 75% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

Saskatchewan Petroleum Innovation Incentive (SPII)
- From $1,000,000 to $5,000,000
- Up to 25% of project cost
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
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Canadian Cleantech for Mining Mission to Australia and Indonesia
- Maximum amount : 5,000 $
- Up to 75% of project cost
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
- Utilities
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services

PacifiCan — Economic Development Initiative (EDI)
- No Condition
- Information and cultural industries
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

- Maximum amount : 15,000 $
- All industries

- No Condition
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction

Agri-Tech Innovation Initiative : Stream 3 – Agri-Tech Energy Costs Savings
- Maximum amount : 100,000 $
- Up to 35% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing

MEIE — Program to support the development of strategic sectors and niches of excellence (PADS)
- No Condition
- All industries

Emerging Farmers Award
- From $3,500 to $7,500
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

Breakthrough Energy Solutions Canada
- No Condition
- Utilities
- Construction
- Manufacturing
- Transportation and warehousing

- No Condition
- Manufacturing
- Transportation and warehousing
- Professional, scientific and technical services

Investments in Forest Industry Transformation (IFIT) — Capital Investment Projects
- Minimum amount : 1,000,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing

SADC Lac-St-Jean Ouest — Loan The Developer
- Maximum amount : 300,000 $
- Up to 2% of project cost
- All industries

Ontario Trillium Foundation - Youth Opportunities Fund
- Maximum amount : 250,000 $
- Health care and social assistance

OTF — Youth Innovations Scale Grant
- Maximum amount : 150,000 $
- Up to 15% of project cost
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Vantage Point bursaries - Free professional development workshops and labs
- No Condition
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Other services (except public administration)

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

Project support program for the Critical and Strategic Minerals Scientific Research Network
- Maximum amount : 2,000,000 $
- Up to 70% of project cost
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
- Manufacturing
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

- No Condition
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
- Health care and social assistance

- Maximum amount : 5,000 $
- Health care and social assistance

Potato Stabilization and Innovation initiative (PSII)
- No Condition
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

Ontario Creates Business Intelligence Program
- Minimum amount : 30,000 $
- Up to 75% of project cost
- Information and cultural industries
Young Men and Media Collective Funding Opportunity
- From $90,000 to $275,000
- Information and cultural industries
- Health care and social assistance
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Renewable and Alternative Energy Program
- No Condition
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
- Utilities
- Construction
- Professional, scientific and technical services

Energy Innovation Program — Carbon capture, utilization and storage RD&D
- No Condition
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
- Utilities
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services

NGen — Cluster Accelerator Program
- Maximum amount : 100,000 $
- Up to 150% of project cost
- Manufacturing

Canadian Agriculture Technology Innovation R&D Partnering Delegation to Brazil
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Professional, scientific and technical services