Industrial Research Assistance Program Overview
Poll of client issues/concerns
Issue
Expensive to
Commercialize
Lack of Facilities
Scale-up
Funding issues
Regulatory and
compliance
Lack of Expertise
of Firm
Marketing issues
Issue details
Just plain expensive to go commercial as there are always new
unforeseen costs. Every step seems to be expensive.
Facilities for commercial scale-up not readily available or are
expensive, few available commercial kitchens, or similar.
Funding for capital items and labor is difficult, funds are often out
of money. Relatively few investor options in Manitoba.
Regulations and compliance is confusing often not consistent even
within regulatory body. Need plain language support tool.
Early stage inventors find it hard to go to the next level, "pioneers
get the arrows and settlers get the land".
Unsure how to bring to market, lack of access to retail, shelf space,
distribution channels, local market is too small.
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