Valorisation-recherche Québec – VRQ
University research results have had a very positive impact on the Quebec economy. That's why the commercialization division of VRQ aims to provide university institutions (universities, hospital centres and affiliates institutes) with the financial means to promote and commercialize their research results by financially supporting companies owned by the universities.

Canada Economic Development (CED)
Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions emphasizes innovation in order to fully implement its mandate, which is to promote the economic development of Quebec regions. Over the last few years, Canada Economic Development has significantly increased the proportion of financial aid it allocates to innovation-related projects, enabling it to reach its objectives and commitments in the face of this national priority.

Hexagram
Hexagram was born of the Quebec government's desire to consolidate Montreal's international strategic positioning in the media arts and technologies sector. Counting on the growing collaboration between industry and its 60 artist/researchers from Concordia University and Université du Québec à Montréal, Hexagram is moving to help Montreal become a major world centre for research and creation in the field of media arts.

National Research Council of Canada (NRC) - Industrial Research Assistance Program (IRAP)
As a key enabler within Canada's innovation system, NRC-IRAP provides Canadian SMEs with value-added technological and business advice, financial assistance and a range of other innovation assistance. NRC-IRAP helps SMEs realize their full potential, converting knowledge and innovation into strategic opportunities, jobs and prosperity for all Canadians.

CANMET Energy Technology Centre - Ottawa (CETC-O) The CANMET Energy Technology Centre - Ottawa (CETC-O) is a key research arm of Natural Resources Canada and is one of Canada's premier organizations in the field of energy, science and technology. CETC-O works with private and public sector partners to develop and deploy leading-edge energy products. The result of these technologies is reduction of environmental impacts, increased productivity and generated economic growth in Canada.

Centre québécois de valorisation des biotechnologies - CQVB The CQVB is a key actor at the start of the commercialization process. Through its network, the CQVB has a mandate to encourage innovation among Quebec SMEs in the bio-industry sector and to support the development and transfer of technologies resulting from research, in order to generate new sources of collective wealth. The CQVB is a general partner of the Bio-innovation Fund, which offers Quebec companies in the bio-industry field, risk capital to help them in the initial stage of technological innovation and development.

Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
Idea to Innovation (I2I) Program
The role of the NSERC is to invest in people, discovery and innovation for the benefit of all Canadians. The objective of the Idea to Innovation (I2I) program is to accelerate the pre-competitive development of promising technology and promote its transfer to Canadian companies. The program supports research and development projects with recognized technology transfer potential by providing crucial assistance to university researchers in the early stages of technology validation and commercial networking.

Ministère de l'Agriculture, des Pêcheries et de l'Alimentation du Québec - MAPAQ MAPAQ, the Quebec ministry of agriculture, fisheries and foods, has revised its offer of services to support aquaculture. It aims to develop this activity sector, banking on the emergence of an industrial sector able to supply quality products and on the use of technology for both commercial and sports fishing. Under Quebec's Fisheries and Aquaculture Policy, aquaculture is one of the avenues fostered by the Quebec government to reach its objective of increasing the province's aquatic biomass.