Government: Tech companies need a hand up, not a hand out
Businesses in Canada have a lot going for them. From the SR&ED program, to other services provided by Export Development Canada, the Business Development Bank of Canada and DFAIT, Canadian...
View ArticleGovernment: Picking winners, losers and champions
As someone who engages with entrepreneurs, investors, bureaucrats and politicians on both sides of the Atlantic, it is clear to me that we don’t stimulate and nurture the entrepreneurial spirit in...
View ArticleGovernment incentive programs set for major shakeup
The eyes of the Canadian commercialization ecosystem will be focused sharply on Toronto and Ottawa this week as the Ontario and federal governments bring down new budgets that are expected to...
View ArticleOntario 2012 Budget: perspectives on business incentives
The Ontario 2012 budget was released March 27, 2012. The general theme of the budget is getting efficiency out of the prior investments and government spending and cultivating the growth presumably...
View ArticleWill the SR&ED tax credit changes have a meaningful impact?
The Scientific Research and Experimental Development (SR&ED) program was one of the long-anticipated and highly debated areas expected to be addressed in the 2012 Federal budget [...]The post Will...
View ArticleThere were other business-related incentive tidbits in the federal budget
While last week's federal budget contained widely anticipated changes to the Scientific Research and Experimental Development (SR&ED) tax credit, it also contained many other aspects of funding and...
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