Collaborative Science, Technology and Innovation Program – Ideation Fund
National Research Council Canada
Program purpose (as reported by the department)
The Ideation Fund is intended to encourage, test and validate transformative research ideas generated by teams of NRC scientific personnel and external collaborators with complementary capabilities, acting as a demonstration phase for a continually-evolving suite of research and development (R&D) deliverables at the NRC. The fund supports exploratory research through two mechanisms: the New Beginnings Initiative and the Small Teams Initiative.
What the numbers say
- Half of the agreements with businesses are worth $135,996 or less.
- The largest recipient, Earthrise Building Services Inc., holds $478,000 (26% of the program's business funding in this data).
- The most recent agreement in the data started on 2026-03-15.
By fiscal year
By recipient province
Largest recipients
| Recipient | Agreements | Value | Latest start |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earthrise Building Services Inc. | 1 | $478,000 | 2023-04-01 |
| OMP inc. | 2 | $380,610 | 2021-11-01 |
| Brilliant Matters Organic Electronics inc. | 1 | $374,711 | 2022-08-01 |
| Bachalo Technology Incorporated | 1 | $333,064 | 2023-12-01 |
| Applied Nanotools inc. | 1 | $135,996 | 2022-01-31 |
| Rayleigh Solar Tech | 1 | $25,000 | 2024-03-17 |
| PhenoSwitch Bioscience | 1 | $25,000 | 2023-03-24 |
| Exhilarare Inc. | 1 | $25,000 | 2026-03-15 |
| MAE Robotics Inc. | 1 | $24,970 | 2023-03-20 |
| Convergent Manufacturing Technologies Inc. | 1 | $24,750 | 2023-03-21 |
Recent agreements
| Start | Recipient | Project | Province | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-15 | Exhilarare Inc. | Vision-assisted automated volumetric additive manufacturing of multi-material devices. | ON | $25,000 |
| 2024-03-17 | Rayleigh Solar Tech | Improving Solar Cell Efficiency by Additively Manufacturing Lens Arrays Using Roll-to-Roll Blurred Tomography | NS | $25,000 |
| 2023-12-01 | Bachalo Technology Incorporated | Addressing global climate change knowledge gaps: Next generation instruments for aerosol optical properties | BC | $333,064 |
| 2023-04-01 | Earthrise Building Services Inc. | Rapid Retrofits Healthy Homes | YT | $478,000 |
| 2023-03-24 | PhenoSwitch Bioscience | Not all proteins are created equal: Immune regulation by protein isoforms in pregnancy and cancer | QC | $25,000 |
| 2023-03-21 | Convergent Manufacturing Technologies Inc. | Digital twinning of advanced composites forming: combining next-generation high-resolution synchrotron based micro CT imaging with process simulation to optimize both forming process automation and develop more formable materials and products. | BC | $24,750 |
| 2023-03-20 | MAE Robotics Inc. | Redefining the force information channel in human-robot interaction through enhanced sensing, processing and control | ON | $24,970 |
| 2022-08-01 | Brilliant Matters Organic Electronics inc. | Novel organic/2D material hybrid inks for low-cost, flexible, printed, near infrared detectors – workstream 2 | QC | $374,711 |
| 2022-01-31 | Applied Nanotools inc. | Nanofabrication of SiN quantum photonic chip components | AB | $135,996 |
| 2021-11-01 | OMP Inc. | Gemini Planet Imager CAL2 HSOA (High-stability Opto-mechanical Assembly) | QC | $210,610 |
| 2021-11-01 | OMP inc. | Gemini Planet Imager CAL2 HSOA (High-stability Opto-mechanical Assembly) | QC | $170,000 |
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