Enterprise Saskatchewan

The SMART Program provides small and medium-sized businesses access to industry specialists.

These specialists will find and analyze information on the marketplace and emerging technologies in order to help companies make strategic business decisions. The emerging field of competitive intelligence deals with gathering and analyzing a wide range of publicly held information to gain a thorough understanding of the marketplace. Access to such professionals will help entrepreneurs refine their research and development, marketing and commercialization efforts.

The program is jointly funded by Enterprise Saskatchewan and the National Research Council Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC-IRAP), and is administered by the Saskatchewan Advanced Technology Association (SATA).

Eligible projects can receive up to 75% of their costs to a maximum of $15,000. In order for a project to be considered, the company must meet two criteria:

• it must be eligible for NRC-IRAP funding and be approved as an NRC-IRAP client; and
• it must have developed or be developing a new product, process or system based on an innovative application of science and technology, or have acquired technology that is not currently in use in Saskatchewan from another company or university through a technology transfer process.