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The National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC-IRAP) supports small and medium-sized enterprises in Canada build their technology and innovation capabilities. Our Industrial Technology Advisors work with small and medium-sized enterprises on-site to assess your needs and design solutions which can be tailored to your business. NRC-IRAP offers you direct technical assistance, access to the latest technological advances, expertise, facilities and resources. NRC-IRAP may also provide cost-shared financing of innovative technical projects to qualified firms.
Over thirty Industrial Technology Advisors work in 13 communities throughout the region. They work in teams managing projects as an integrated group. Their expertise is vast and covers a range of established and growing sectors including agriculture and aquaculture, wood products, advanced manufacturing, computer science and telecommunications, nutraceuticals, food products and biotechnology.
Across Atlantic & Nunavut, NRC-IRAP works closely with a number of organizations such as:
- Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA)
- Fisheries and Marine Institute of Memorial University
- Dalhousie University
- New Brunswick Community College
- PEI BioAlliance
Success Stories
Quark Engineering and Development Inc.
An Overnight Success
Halifax based firm thinks outside the box
Soricimed Biopaharma Inc.
Developing a cancer treatment
Building a New Cancer Diagnostic and Drug Development Company in Small-Town New Brunswick
Acadian Seaplants Limited
Turning Seaweed into Success
Harvesting one of our coastline’s natural resources
Allens Fisheries
Musseling in on new markets
Year round mussels
Contact us:
National Research Council Canada
Industrial Research Assistance Program
Halifax office
1411 Oxford St
Halifax, Nova Scotia
B3H 3Z1
Telephone: 902-426-3138
Fax: 902-426-1624
Prince Edward Island
Telephone: 1-877-994-4727
New Brunswick
Telephone: 1-877-994-4727
Newfoundland & Labrador and Nunavut
Telephone: 1-877-994-4727
To engage with NRC-IRAP, or to reach an Industrial Technology Advisor located in your community, please call our toll-free number at 1-877-994-4727.
