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CANADA - Canadian Innovation Commercialization Program

The Government of Canada has launched a program to help kickstart Canadian businesses by testing their innovative products and services within the Government of Canada before taking them to the marketplace. This program is a new $40 million program announced under Budget 2010 to encourage federal departments and agencies to test innovative products and services in four areas: environment, health, safety and security, and enabling technologies.

For more details about the new program to help kickstart Canadian businesses, see the backgrounders on the Canadian Innovation Commercialization Program (CICP) and on the new buyandsell.gc.ca website.

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