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.

Première Ovation - Multi Arts
- No Condition
- All industries

Première Ovation - Heritage
- No Condition
- All industries

Honorific grants 2025 – Entreprendre ici
- Maximum amount : 25,000 $
- All industries
Subventions pour des projets de recherche sur une maladie héréditaire orpheline
- Maximum amount : 25,000 $
- Professional, scientific and technical services

NGen — Advanced Manufacturing Technology Program
- From $600,000 to $3,200,000
- Up to 40% of project cost
- Manufacturing

The Physicians' Services Incorporated Foundation - Health Research Grants
- Maximum amount : 100,000 $
- Health care and social assistance

CFIN — Foodtech Frontier 25
- No Condition
- Manufacturing
- Retail trade
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Accommodation and food services

Première Ovation - Circus
- No Condition
- All industries

The Physicians' Services Incorporated Foundation - Resident Research Grants
- Maximum amount : 30,000 $
- Health care and social assistance

Skills Development Fund (SDF) — Training Stream
- No Condition
- Construction
- Manufacturing

BC Tech Growth Programs
- No Condition
- Information and cultural industries

- No Condition
- All industries

NRC — Reverberant Acoustic Chamber - Research Facility
- No Condition
- Transportation and warehousing
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Public administration

Canada - UK 2024-2025 multisector collaborative industrial research and development
- Maximum amount : 500,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Information and cultural industries
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Health care and social assistance

Critical Minerals Innovation Fund
- Maximum amount : 500,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services

Innovative Enterprise Program
- Maximum amount : 38,000 $
- Up to 95% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing

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

Lac-Mégantic Economic Assistance Fund (FAELM)
- No Condition
- Manufacturing
- Accommodation and food services
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

Product Development Partnership Program
- Maximum amount : 25,000 $
- Accommodation and food services

- No Condition
- Health care and social assistance
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

- From $1,000 to $30,000
- Up to 75% of project cost
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Relève Alimentaire Québec Award
- From $5,000 to $10,000
- Up to 60% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Accommodation and food services

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

CQRDA — PARTENAR-IA — Business
- Maximum amount : 1,500,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
- Construction
- Manufacturing

Emerging Talent Awards as part of the 2025 Rendez-vous Génome Québec
- Maximum amount : 25,000 $
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance
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ARBJ — Targeted Financing Program (TFP)
- Up to 20% of project cost
- All industries

CQRDA — Providers-Clients
- Maximum amount : 2,000,000 $
- Up to 75% of project cost
- Manufacturing

Saskatchewan Product Development Program (PDP)
- No Condition
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing

Riipen — Future Path
- Up to 50% of project cost
- All industries

Impact Canada - Deep Space Food Challenge
- Maximum amount : 100,000 $
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services

Gearing Up — Student Work Placement Program
- Maximum amount : 7,000 $
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction

MaRS Growth Acceleration Program
- No Condition
- Information and cultural industries
- Finance and insurance
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Health care and social assistance

Innovation Canada — Innovation Advisors in Yukon
- No Condition
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Utilities
- Manufacturing
- Retail trade

NGen — Pilot Projects
- From $50,000 to $200,000
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services

Genome Prairie — Precision Health Initiative
- Maximum amount : 6 $
- Up to 45% of project cost
- Health care and social assistance

- Maximum amount : 200,000 $
- Up to 20% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Information and cultural industries
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Geniuses in business
- No Condition
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance

PRIMA — Call For Projects In Artificial Intelligence And Quantum Technologies
- Maximum amount : 1,500,000 $
- Up to 35% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing
- Transportation and warehousing
- Information and cultural industries

Compétivert — Investment Matching Solution
- From $1,000,000 to $5,000,000
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Manufacturing

Yukon Manufacturing and Processing Profits Tax Credit
- Maximum amount : 25,000 $
- Up to 25% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services

InnoFood — Food innovations for a sustainable future
- Maximum amount : 1,500,000 $
- Up to 40% of project cost
- Manufacturing

Social Innovation Project Grants
- No Condition
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

Forest Sector Investment and Innovation Program — Collaboration projects
- From $3,000,000 to $3,000,000
- Up to 30% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

PME MTL — Social Initiatives
- From $5,000 to $50,000
- All industries

- From $250,000 to $2,000,000
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Information and cultural industries
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Health care and social assistance

Innovation and Development Labour Rebate Program
- No Condition
- All industries

SME in action
- No Condition
- Manufacturing

OVIN — R&D Partnership Fund – Advanced Charging and Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) Stream
- Maximum amount : 1,000,000 $
- Up to 33% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Transportation and warehousing
- Information and cultural industries
- Professional, scientific and technical services

IDEaS — Counter Uncrewed Aerial Systems Concept Development
- Maximum amount : 2,500,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- No Condition
- All industries
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Economic Development Fund — Tier 2
- Maximum amount : 500,000 $
- Up to 75% of project cost
- All industries

AgriScience Program — Projects – Not-for-profit
- Up to 70% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services

N.B. Indigenous Agriculture Development Program
- No Condition
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

Alberta Innovates — Clean Resources
- Maximum amount : 2,000,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
- Utilities
- Manufacturing

Oil and Gas Processing Investment Incentive
- From $10,000,000 to $75
- Up to 15% of project cost
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
- Utilities
- Manufacturing

Cégep de Sept-Îles
- No Condition
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance

SMART Cluster’s 8th call for proposals – advanced manufacturing
- No Condition
- Manufacturing

Innovation Guelph — Boundless Startup Program
- No Condition
- All industries

- No Condition
- Professional, scientific and technical services

BDC Capital — Intellectual Property-Backed Financing
- No Condition
- Manufacturing
- Information and cultural industries
- Professional, scientific and technical services

Infrastructure de recherche et développement
- No Condition
- Manufacturing
- Information and cultural industries
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services

CCC — International Prime Contractor
- No Condition
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Construction
- Manufacturing
- Transportation and warehousing

- No Condition
- All industries

Accelerate Program for Quebec Emerging Companies
- No Condition
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Health care and social assistance

Intrapreneurship program
- No Condition
- All industries

CMF — Prototyping Program
- Maximum amount : 250,000 $
- Up to 75% of project cost
- Information and cultural industries

Honorific grants 2024 — Entreprendre ici
- Maximum amount : 25,000 $
- All industries

- Maximum amount : 500,000 $
- Up to 95% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

- Maximum amount : 10,000 $
- Information and cultural industries
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

ALS Society of Canada - ALS Canada-Brain Canada Discovery Grant Program
- From $125,000 to $500,000
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Health care and social assistance

Pierre Péladeau Scholarships
- Maximum amount : 75,000 $
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
- Manufacturing
- Retail trade

- No Condition
- Professional, scientific and technical services

Eastern Ontario Development Fund (EODF) — Community economic development projects
- Maximum amount : 1,500,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- All industries

Entrepreneurship and Innovation Fund — Small Businesses or Entrepreneurs Developing Agri-tech and Cleantech Solutions
- Maximum amount : 10,000 $
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services

ID Gatineau — Economic Diversification Fund
- Maximum amount : 100,000 $
- Up to 15% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Information and cultural industries
- Professional, scientific and technical services
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- Minimum amount : 250,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Utilities
- Manufacturing
- Transportation and warehousing
- Professional, scientific and technical services

Newfoundland and Labrador — Business Growth Program
- Maximum amount : 750,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Information and cultural industries
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services

- Maximum amount : 100,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Information and cultural industries
- Professional, scientific and technical services

DRDC Defence Research Partnerships
- No Condition
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Public administration

Startup Canada — Equal Slice Program
- Maximum amount : 100,000 $
- All industries

City of Lévis — Quebec Business Access Network
- No Condition
- All industries

Impact Canada Challenge Hub
- No Condition
- Information and cultural industries
- Health care and social assistance
- Public administration

Agri-food Funding
- Maximum amount : 250,000 $
- Up to 100% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing

- Maximum amount : 500,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services

Manufacturing & Processing Investment Tax Credit Saskatchewan
- No Condition
- Manufacturing

Horticulture Diversification Program
- Maximum amount : 75,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- All industries

Invest Nova Scotia — Investment
- Up to 25% of project cost
- Information and cultural industries
- Finance and insurance
- Professional, scientific and technical services

Alberta Innovates — R&D Associates Program
- Maximum amount : 105,000 $
- Up to 25% of project cost
- Information and cultural industries
- Professional, scientific and technical services

Food Security and Supply Chain Fund
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing

Indigenous Languages and Cultures Program — Indigenous Languages Component
- Up to 100% of project cost
- Information and cultural industries
- Educational services
- Public administration

Agricultural Clean Technology Program — Research and Innovation
- Maximum amount : 2,000,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing

Interactive Fund
- Maximum amount : 50,000 $
- Up to 30% of project cost
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Canada Book Fund Support for Organizations — For-Profit
- Maximum amount : 2,000,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Information and cultural industries

Biofood Innovation Program Component 5 – Support for knowledge transfer and dissemination
- From $8,000 to $143,750
- Up to 70% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

Step Forward Entrepreneurs Program
- Maximum amount : 10,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- All industries

Motorola Solutions Foundation
- Maximum amount : 50,000 $
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance
- Public administration

Centre for Northern Innovation in Mining (CNIM)
- No Condition
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
- Educational services

- No Condition
- Wholesale trade
- Information and cultural industries
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services

PRIMA — INNOV-R SME
- Maximum amount : 450,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Utilities
- Manufacturing
- Transportation and warehousing
- Professional, scientific and technical services

Mining Research and Innovation Support Program
- Maximum amount : 600,000 $
- Up to 40% of project cost
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
