Collaborative Science, Technology and Innovation Program - Collaborative R&D Initiatives
National Research Council Canada
Program purpose (as reported by the department)
Collaborate on multiparty research and development programs to catalyze transformative, high-risk, high-reward research with the potential for game-changing scientific discoveries and technological breakthroughs in priority areas.
Agreements with businesses
71
Median agreement
$309,304
Range
$35,255 – $1,166,490
Recipients
63
Last 12 months
17
Total value
$26,885,341
What the numbers say
- Half of the agreements with businesses are worth $309,304 or less.
- The largest recipient, Xanadu Quantum Technologies Inc, holds $1,954,103 (7% of the program's business funding in this data).
- The most recent agreement in the data started on 2026-06-15.
By fiscal year
2021-22$5,253,00411
2022-23$606,2554
2023-24$1,936,42810
2024-25$11,270,04223
2025-26$5,738,17718
2026-27$2,081,4355
By recipient province
ON$10,240,58425
QC$8,941,92621
BC$2,945,2858
AB$2,920,9837
NS$530,0631
YT$469,0003
?$309,3041
NT$302,1903
NL$146,0631
PE$79,9431
Largest recipients
| Recipient | Agreements | Value | Latest start |
|---|---|---|---|
| Xanadu Quantum Technologies Inc | 3 | $1,954,103 | 2025-02-24 |
| Quantum Valley Ideas Laboratories | 1 | $1,166,490 | 2021-11-01 |
| Quantum Silicon Inc. | 1 | $1,050,000 | 2025-01-01 |
| 13717658 Canada Inc. | 1 | $1,050,000 | 2025-01-01 |
| Dream Photonics Inc. | 1 | $1,049,850 | 2025-01-01 |
| Teraxion Inc. | 1 | $966,075 | 2025-01-13 |
| Measurement International Limited | 1 | $913,275 | 2025-01-01 |
| SBQuantum | 1 | $867,037 | 2022-02-01 |
| SB Quantum | 1 | $867,037 | 2022-02-01 |
| NIVOLT Technologies Inc. | 1 | $755,700 | 2025-01-27 |
| CERT Systems Inc. | 1 | $715,906 | 2024-04-01 |
| Quantum Bridge Technologies Inc. | 2 | $693,825 | 2024-10-30 |
| softwareQ Inc. | 1 | $675,000 | 2024-04-15 |
| Baüne Ecosystem Inc. | 1 | $607,357 | 2026-06-02 |
| Telescope Innovations Corp. | 1 | $575,800 | 2024-11-01 |
Recent agreements
| Start | Recipient | Project | Province | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-15 | Noram Electrolysis Systems Inc. | Extraction of Lithium from black mass and Lithium Hydroxide production | BC | $300,053 |
| 2026-06-02 | Baüne Ecosystem Inc. | Integration and validation of NRC’s VitalSeer technology with BAÜNE’s Autonomous Care Unit (ACU™) system | QC | $607,357 |
| 2026-05-19 | D-Wave Systems Inc. | Improved Embedding Algorithms for Posing Ising Problems to Commercial-Scale Quantum Annealing Processors | BC | $299,025 |
| 2026-04-04 | Prodexim International Inc. | Processing and beneficiation of harvested fly ash for concrete industries | QC | $500,000 |
| 2026-04-01 | Sha Shaw Corporation | Can a Modular Food Hub Work Here? Testing Cost-Recovery in a Northern Community | YT | $375,000 |
| 2026-03-27 | Tightbeam Photonics Inc. | Quantum PHotonic Adaptive System‑on‑chip Internetworking Communication Station (Q-PHASICS) | ON | $110,138 |
| 2026-03-23 | Optiwave Systems Inc. | “QUANTUM FREESPACE”: Squeezed Light Continuous Variable Quantum Free-Space Mobile Optical Data Links | ON | $225,000 |
| 2026-03-19 | Qubic Inc. | Broadband quantum amplifiers for enhanced superconducting resonator readout | QC | $329,022 |
| 2026-03-13 | Applied Nanotools Inc. | Phase-controlled quantum devices | AB | $322,500 |
| 2026-03-13 | Q-Block Computing Inc. | Beyond the PLOB Bound: Multimode Quantum Networks for Sensing and Metrology | AB | $331,959 |
| 2026-03-12 | Norcada Inc. | Development of Interband Cascade Lasers and a multi-gas sensing platform for air quality monitoring applications | AB | $365,475 |
| 2026-03-10 | 13717658 Canada Inc. (SB Quantum) | Accurate quantum vector magnetometers for remote detection | QC | $224,978 |
| 2026-02-17 | 11281232 Canada Inc. | ADAPT: Accessible Diagnostics for Aging-in-Place Testing | ON | $375,070 |
| 2026-02-10 | Ki3 Photonics Technologies Inc. | Coherent kilometer-scale links for distributed quantum sensing | QC | $404,580 |
| 2026-02-01 | 14003381 CANADA INC. | Converting food waste into clean water, bio-methane and compostable solids | NT | $202,190 |
| 2026-01-26 | Syntra Refining Corp. | AI-guided solutions for the optimization and smart control in mineral processing | NS | $530,063 |
| 2026-01-19 | Phantom Photonics Inc. | Enhanced imaging and analysis of quantum underwater LiDAR with visual model adaptation | ON | $460,573 |
| 2025-10-14 | QuantaSensing Inc. | Development and Evaluation of Quantum-Limited Kinetic Inductance Amplifiers for NextGeneration Radio Astronomy | AB | $410,129 |
| 2025-09-02 | Hydro-Québec | Scaling and circularity of high‑nickel cathodes for next‑generation Li‑ion batteries | QC | $510,000 |
| 2025-06-20 | JRAS Medical Inc. | Non-invasive Home Heart Failure Monitoring | NL | $146,063 |
| 2025-05-23 | Twin Paradox Labs Inc. | Stabilized Lasers for Industrial Quantum Technologies | ON | $386,719 |
| 2025-04-09 | Skinopathy Inc. | Contactless and Remote Monitoring of wounds using a novel data framework and AI models for older adults | ON | $201,256 |
| 2025-04-01 | PROVA Innovations Ltd. | Enhancing Aging in Place via the WithinStride™ Gait Rehabilitation System: Real-Time Gait Analysis and Biofeedback for Improved Mobility | ON | $202,462 |
| 2025-03-03 | Sha Shaw Corporation | Revitalizing Northern Agricultural Practices | YT | $47,000 |
| 2025-02-24 | Xanadu Quantum Technologies Inc | Advanced quantum algorithms for lithium-ion batteries | ON | $760,543 |
Method & sources
Source: Government of Canada "Proactive Disclosure – Grants and Contributions" (Open Government Licence – Canada). We include agreements with for-profit recipients that started on or after April 1, 2021, and keep the latest amendment of each agreement, so values are the current agreement value, not money paid out. Departments report on their own schedule, so the most recent quarter is incomplete. Recipients are linked to company pages by exact name match. This is not an endorsement or an eligibility determination — check each program's official page.
Dataset on open.canada.ca · Search the official grants records