Canadian Innovation Centre

Canadian Innovation Centre, known as CIC, guides new ideas towards the market. It provides assessment tools, training and expert help for entrepreneurs and for companies developing innovations.

Products and services

• Commercialization Roadmap: a structured path to get an idea ready to sell.
• Critical Factors Assessment: an evaluation of the elements that decide whether a new venture succeeds.
• Market assessments: multiple market, market validation, technology-market alignment and entry-to-market reviews.
• Growth support: growth optimisation and lost order analysis.
• Education and training: an online interactive learning environment for launching a business.

Who it works with

CIC names entrepreneurs, corporate innovators, small and medium firms, government agencies and campus-linked accelerators across Canada. One client quote describes a regional innovation initiative in New Brunswick.

Key facts

• Based in: Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
• Assessment history: the Critical Factors Assessment has been used for more than a decade
• Content: guidance on the eight biggest hurdles to commercialisation