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.

- Maximum amount : 500,000 $
- Up to 75% of project cost
- All industries

VERGE Capital — Breakthrough Fund
- No Condition
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Retail trade
- Health care and social assistance

Entrepreneurship and Innovation Fund (EIF) — Non-Profits that Serve Underrepresented Communities
- From $10,000 to $10,000
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Information and cultural industries
- Other services (except public administration)

- No Condition
- All industries

Alberta Innovates — Technology Development Advisors (TDA)
- No Condition
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
- Construction
- Manufacturing

PEI - Export Trade Assistance
- Maximum amount : 3,000 $
- Up to 75% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Information and cultural industries
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Energy Innovation Program — FEED Studies for Carbon capture, utilization and storage
- Maximum amount : 50,000,000 $
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
- Utilities
- Manufacturing
- Transportation and warehousing

innovÉÉ — Accord
- From $100,000 to $350,000
- Up to 80% of project cost
- Utilities
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services

Drilling Technology Challenge
- From $250,000 to $8,000,000
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
- Utilities
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Educational services

Regional Economic Growth Through Innovation & Southern Ontario Prosperity Program — Indigenous
- No Condition
- All industries

Startup Zone Accelerator Program
- No Condition
- All industries

Innovative Solutions Canada - Vehicle theft prevention
- Maximum amount : 150,000 $
- Professional, scientific and technical services

Rangeland Sustainability Program (RSP)
- No Condition
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Educational services
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

- Maximum amount : 4,000,000 $
- Up to 20% of project cost
- All industries

Community Economic Development Fund
- Maximum amount : 3,000,000 $
- All industries

Saskatchewan Research and Development Tax Credit
- Maximum amount : 1,000,000 $
- Up to 10% of project cost
- Professional, scientific and technical services

Saskatchewan Lean Improvements in Manufacturing (SLIM)
- Maximum amount : 750,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing

Circular Initiatives Awards
- No Condition
- Manufacturing
- Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services
- Educational services
- Other services (except public administration)

CFIN NextGen Food Innovators
- From $5,000 to $10,000
- Up to 100% of project cost
- Accommodation and food services

Sustainable New Agri-Food Products & Productivity Program — New Products
- Maximum amount : 10,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing

Tax credit for cellulosic ethanol production in Quebec
- No Condition
- Manufacturing

Innovative Solutions Canada — Inclusive industrial protective headwear
- Maximum amount : 300,000 $
- Utilities
- Construction
- Manufacturing

Emerging Opportunities Program
- From $2,000,000 to $1,000,000
- Up to 25% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing

Tax credit for pyrolytic oil production in Québec
- No Condition
- Manufacturing

Saskatchewan Mineral Exploration Tax Credit
- Up to 45% of project cost
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
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NRCAN — Mining Decarbonization Demonstration
- From $1,000,000 to $5,000,000
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction

Canada Travelling Exhibitions Indemnification Program
- No Condition
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Carbon Capture Kickstart
- Maximum amount : 5,000,000 $
- Up to 10% of project cost
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
- Utilities
- Manufacturing
- Public administration

Campus Alberta Small Business Engagement (CASBE) Program
- Maximum amount : 150,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Professional, scientific and technical services

Xecs call 4 – electronic components and systems
- No Condition
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Transportation and warehousing
- Information and cultural industries
- Health care and social assistance

Economic Diversification Fund (FDE) - Centre-du-Québec and Mauricie regions
- No Condition
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

Forest Biomass Program — Indigenous bioeconomy partnerships stream
- Maximum amount : 250,000 $
- Up to 80% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

Ottawa Rural Clean Water Program
- Maximum amount : 15,000 $
- Up to 90% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Educational services

INVEST North Program — Innovation – Industrial Research Chair
- Maximum amount : 1,000,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Educational services

- No Condition
- Utilities

Accompaniment and technical support for Québec forestry companies (MASTE)
- Maximum amount : 50,000 $
- Up to 75% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

ID Gatineau — Business Support Fund
- Maximum amount : 25,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Manufacturing

NRC — Aerospace Research Centre
- No Condition
- Manufacturing
- Transportation and warehousing
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Public administration

Agriculture Research and Innovation — Agriculture Technology Advancement
- Maximum amount : 80 $
- Up to 75% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

Advancing Canada’s Engagement in Horizon Europe
- Maximum amount : 10,000 $
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Educational services

Program to support the fight against climate change in the bio-food sector – Component B
- From $57,142 to $330,000
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing

Rural Economic Development (RED) program
- Maximum amount : 250,000 $
- All industries

Cranberry Industry Development Program (CIDP)
- Maximum amount : 45,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

Regional Economic Growth through Innovation — Regional Innovation Ecosystems — ACOA
- No Condition
- All industries

RDAR — Accelerating Agricultural Innovations 2.0
- Up to 60% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

Territorial and sectoral development program — Stream 2.1
- From $5,000 to $250,000
- Up to 80% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

Crop and Livestock Sector Development (CLSD)
- Maximum amount : 150,000 $
- Up to 70% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

Standards Council of Canada
- No Condition
- Professional, scientific and technical services

Continental Defense and Security Technologies
- Maximum amount : 2,300,000 $
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Public administration

Innov'Action agroalimentaire Program
- No Condition
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing
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CQRDA — SI2TEC
- Maximum amount : 75,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services

Manitoba — Research and Innovation
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services

Yukon bids&tenders
- No Condition
- All industries

Business Assistance — Immigrant Investor Program
- Up to 10% of project cost
- All industries

Lab Services Incentive Program (LSIP)
- Maximum amount : 100,000 $
- Up to 60% of project cost
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
- Utilities
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Educational services

- Maximum amount : 150,000 $
- All industries

Quebec Housing Industry Development Program (PADIQH)
- Maximum amount : 300,000 $
- Up to 66.67% of project cost
- Construction
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services

New Brunswick Research and Development Tax Credit
- No Condition
- Professional, scientific and technical services

CDEM — Self-Employment Benefit Program
- No Condition
- All industries

Atlantic Fisheries Fund — Infrastructure
- No Condition
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

Other Initiatives Program (OIP)
- No Condition
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Other services (except public administration)

BDC Advisory Services — Operational Efficiency
- No Condition
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services

Quebec Fisheries Fund — Innovation
- Maximum amount : 1,000,000 $
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

BC Manufacturing Jobs Fund (BCMJF)
- From $100,000 to $10,000,000
- Up to 20% of project cost
- Manufacturing

Venture Capital Corporation
- No Condition
- Transportation and warehousing
- Information and cultural industries
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Accommodation and food services

Évolution-Compétences — Innovation and knowledge component
- Up to 100% of project cost
- All industries

- From $75,000 to $1,000,000
- Up to 50% of project cost
- All industries

BioCreate Program
- From $100,000 to $150,000
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Health care and social assistance

NRCAN — National Energy Systems Modelling
- From $300,000 to $1,000,000
- Up to 100% of project cost
- Utilities
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Educational services

Capital Investment Tax Credit (CITC)
- From $1,000,000 to $5,000,000
- Up to 10% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Accommodation and food services

Manitoba research and development tax credit
- Up to 15% of project cost
- Professional, scientific and technical services

Heritage Legacy Fund (HLF) - Indigenous Partnership Program
- Maximum amount : 7,500 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Information and cultural industries
- Educational services
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Other services (except public administration)

ECHO Foundation — Mental health
- No Condition
- Health care and social assistance

- No Condition
- Professional, scientific and technical services

Peak Rebate Program
- Maximum amount : 10,000 $
- All industries
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Clean Transportation System — Research and Development (CTS-RD) Program
- Maximum amount : 100,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Transportation and warehousing

BDC Financing — Purchase Order Loan
- From $100,000 to $750,000
- Up to 90% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Wholesale trade
- Retail trade
- Transportation and warehousing

SADC Lac-St-Jean Ouest — Youth Strategy Fund
- No Condition
- All industries

Protein Industries Canada — Strengthening the Canadian Supply Chain Program
- From $50,000 to $150,000
- Up to 75% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing

Energy Innovation Program — Clean Fuels and Industrial Fuel Switching
- No Condition
- Utilities
- Manufacturing
- Transportation and warehousing

Childcare Research, Policy Development, and Innovation Grants
- No Condition
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance

Regional Quantum Initiative in British Columbia
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Information and cultural industries
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Educational services

Accelerating Innovations into CarE (AICE) – Market Access
- Maximum amount : 600,000 $
- Up to 75% of project cost
- Health care and social assistance

FTQ — Business Financing
- From $100,000 to $5,000,000
- Up to 40% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Construction
- Manufacturing
- Transportation and warehousing

OBIO — Early Adopter Health Network (EAHN)
- No Condition
- Health care and social assistance

Accelerating Innovations into CarE (AICE) – Concepts
- Maximum amount : 600,000 $
- Health care and social assistance

- No Condition
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Educational services
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Other services (except public administration)

- From $2,000 to $30,000
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
- Utilities
- Manufacturing

Francophone economic development in British Columbia
- No Condition
- All industries

CAAIN — Livestock Innovation Program 2025
- Maximum amount : 500,000 $
- Up to 40% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

PrairiesCan — Aerospace Regional Recovery Initiative — Indigenous Stream
- Up to 75% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Transportation and warehousing

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

Accessible Technology Program
- Up to 80% of project cost
- Information and cultural industries
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Health care and social assistance

Tourism Business Development Fund (TBDF)
- From $50,000 to $500,000
- Up to 10% of project cost
- Accommodation and food services

Aboriginal Business Financing Program (ABDP) — Community project
- Up to 75% of project cost
- All industries

Programme d’appui au développement des secteurs stratégiques et des créneaux d’excellence (PADS)
- Maximum amount : 1,500,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Manufacturing

Canada-Japan Corporate Co-innovation Program
- Maximum amount : 75,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing
- Transportation and warehousing
- Information and cultural industries

SSRIA – Innovation Fund
- Maximum amount : 300,000 $
- Up to 70% of project cost
- Construction

Saskatchewan Critical Minerals Innovation Incentive (SCMII)
- From $1,000,000 to $5,000,000
- Up to 25% of project cost
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction

Desjardins — Agriculture loans and financing
- No Condition
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Finance and insurance