Compare Your Funding Options
Straight comparisons of the approaches and funding types Canadian businesses weigh most often, so you can decide what fits before you spend time on an application.
Full-Service Grant Management vs Grant Writing Only
When you hire help for government funding, you are really choosing between two service depths: someone who only writes the application, or a partner who runs the whole process from program selection through the final claim. Here is how the two compare, and when each makes sense.
Read the comparisonGrants vs Loans vs Tax Credits: Which Funding Type Is Right?
Not all government funding is a grant. The three most common mechanisms for Canadian businesses, non-repayable grants, repayable financing, and tax credits, behave very differently, and the best strategy usually stacks more than one. Here is how they compare.
Read the comparisonSR&ED vs IRAP: Which R&D Funding Should You Use?
These are the two largest sources of federal R&D funding in Canada, and businesses usually arrive asking which one to pick. For most companies doing real R&D the answer is both, because they pay for different things at different times. What matters is the order you approach them in, and the fact that one reduces the other.
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