This funding stream prioritizes collaborative/regional industry partnership projects with industry groups that are established or emerging in the Southern Interior region. We aim to serve as a catalyst for new economic development initiatives supporting industry cluster development, research and adaptation of innovative technologies, industry-wide collaboration to address business challenges or opportunities, and initiatives that improve sustainability or reduce environmental impacts. Our goal is to:
- Improve the competitiveness of key industry sectors in the Southern Interior, especially those in our mandated focus areas. Funding Streams Overview › Economic Trust of the Southern Interior
- Encourage and create opportunities for industry sector collaboration and strategic partnerships
- Support the creation and growth of industry clusters
- Stimulate the research and adaptation of innovative technologies and business practices
- Support initiatives which focus on sustainability and reducing environmental impacts i.e., waste, energy reduction
- Support sector initiatives aimed at transitioning to and achieving a Net Zero economy
We do this by:
- Providing funding to industry or community groups in emerging or established sectors (examples: manufacturing, aerospace, innovation, cleantech, agri-food, forestry), to support:
- Bringing players in a sector together to explore common needs and interests
- Helping new and emerging industry sectors to organize
- Encouraging sector collaboration regarding areas such as sales, procurement, etc.
- Providing seed funding to support industry or community groups (working with a sector group) to solve/address a common challenge or opportunity. Example projects could include attracting and retaining employees, joint marketing initiative, or joint R&D project
- Providing grant funding to industry or community groups to undertake activities such as research, planning, and strategic partnerships that will assist their sector in reducing energy use and/or repurposing waste
- Supporting networking between key sectors
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