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The National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC-IRAP) helps small and medium-sized enterprises in Canada build their capability in technology and innovation. Our Industrial Technology Advisors work with you on-site to assess your company's needs and design solutions tailored to your business.
NRC-IRAP offers you direct technical assistance, access to the latest technological advances, expertise, facilities, and resources, as well as cost-shared financing of innovative technical projects.
Fifty Industrial Technology Advisors work in Quebec. They cover areas around Montréal and Québec City as well as other key sectors of the province. For example, they work out of Gatineau, Saguenay, Rimouski, Rouyn-Noranda, Sherbrooke, Trois-Rivières, and Victoriaville. Expertise covers the range of key technologies and industrial sectors found here, including those related to communications, environment and manufacturing.
In Quebec, NRC-IRAP works closely with a number of organizations:
- Association pour le développement de la recherche et de l’innovation du Québec (ADRIQ)
- Business Development Bank of Canada
- Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions (DEC)
- Centre de recherche industrielle du Québec (CRIQ)
- Centre de recherche informatique de Montréal (CRIM)
- Centre d’entreprises et d’innovation de Montréal (CEIM)
- Centre francophone d’informatisation des organisations (CEFRIO)
- Centres locaux de développement
- Consortium for Research and Innovation in Aerospace in Québec
- École de technologie supérieure
- École Polytechnique de Montréal
- Inno-Centre
- Institut de développement de produits
- Institut national d'optique
- Manufacturiers et exportateurs du Québec
- Ministère du Développement économique, de l'Innovation et de l'Exportation
- MITACS inc.
- Réseau Trans-tech
- Université Laval
- Université du Québec (Trois-Rivières)
Success Stories
Motion Composites Inc.
an affordable ultra-light wheelchair
Quebec firm designs wheel chair made from composite materials
Technologies HumanWare inc.
Simplifying the lives of visually impaired people through innovation
Company provides innovative electronic notetaker for the visually impaired
Développement Effenco Inc.
A greener garbage truck
Changing the way we move garbage in an innovative way
Medicago Inc.
Fighting the Flu with Vaccines – and Fast!
Producing vaccines to respond quickly to emerging diseases
Muridal Incorporated
Pushing the envelope in curtain wall design
Leader in curtain wall technology
Contact us:
National Research Council Canada
Industrial Research Assistance Program
75 de Mortagne Blvd
Suite P-111
Boucherville, Quebec
J4B 6Y4
Telephone: 450-641-5300f
Fax: 450-641-5301
Email: reception.PARI@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca
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.
