151 document(s) for Industry Canada - IC

• Aboriginal Business Canada - Innovation
  Aboriginal Business Canada is helping to increase the number of innovative firms and assisting others to use technology to be more competitive.
  
  
• Aboriginal Business Canada - Tourism Businesses
  Aboriginal Business Canada supports individuals and communities in their efforts to develop distinctive Aboriginal cultural tourism and ecotourism products that are commercially viable yet remain sensitive to Aboriginal traditions and values.
  
  
• Aboriginal Business Canada - Trade and Market Expansion
  Aboriginal Business Canada is helping to increase the number of Aboriginal exporters, and assisting companies to expand their sales into regional and broader domestic markets.
  
  
• Aboriginal Business Canada - Youth Entrepreneurship
  Aboriginal Business Canada is placing priority on supporting initiatives that encourage Aboriginal youth to get into business.
  
  
• Aboriginal Business Canada
  Improves access to business financing, increases management capacity, and enhances the business climate for Aboriginal entrepreneurs.
  
  
• Aboriginal Business Map
  A Web-based "pathfinder" which brings together, in a single electronic window, information from federal departments and agencies, provincial governments, industry and professional organizations, and Aboriginal organizations.
  
  
• Aboriginal Business on the Internet -Your Internet Tool
  Aboriginal Business on the Internet developed by Aboriginal Business Canada is a training tool designed to help Aboriginal entrepreneurs learn how to navigate the Web and get exposure to Internet business techniques.
  
  
• Access to Capital
  Provides support to Aboriginal financial institutions that offer small business financing services to Aboriginal businesses and entrepreneurs.
  
  
• Advanced Network Applications / Services and Technologies (ANAST) Shared-Cost Funding Program
  A shared-cost funding program that will assist businesses, universities, research institutions and schools in developing innovative applications for high performance networks.
  
  
• Advanced Technology Innovation Fund
  Provides financial support to BC based companies in the multimedia, computer telephony and health informatics sectors for technology development leading to commercialization of products/services.
  
  
• Assistive Devices Industry Office
  ADIO works with Canadian assistive device developers, producers and vendors, providing them with advice, support and market intelligence.
  
  
• Automated Fax Information Service - Corporations Directorate
  Through this fully bilingual service, interested parties may automatically receive forms, policies and guidelines from Industry Canada's Corporations Directorate by fax.
  
  
• Bankruptcy: General Statistics
  The Office of the Superintendent of Bankruptcy offers in-depth Bankruptcy statistics.
  
  
• Business Impact Test - BIT
  The Business Impact Test (BIT) is a consultation tool enabling businesses to provide input into the design of regulatory initiatives in order to reduce their costs, while helping the government achieve its public policy goals.
  
  
• Business Intelligence Express - BIX
  BIX and BIO BIX are Web sites demonstrating the value of Canadian patent and trade-marks records as a source for business technical information. They currently target Canadian companies active in the metals and minerals and the biotechnology sectors
  
  
• Business Planning Initiative - BPI
  FedNor will provide funding to participating Community Futures Development Corporations in Northern Ontario, to enable them to provide loans to existing or potential entrepreneurs for the development and completion of a business plan.
  
  
• CA Number Registration and Database
  A CA number is a five-digit identification number preceded by the letters "CA". Companies use this number to meet provisions of the Textile Labelling Act.
  
  
• Campus WorkLink
  A national Internet database that quickly matches employers' precise needs with the skills of young job seekers.
  
  
• Canada Business Service Centres - CBSC
  Designed to improve business access to a wide range of information on government services, programs and regulations.
  
  
• Canada Community Investment Plan - CCIP
  CCIP provides communities outside the main financial centres with the information and tools they need to start and operate an investment facilitation service for their fast-growth SMEs.
  
  
• Canada Foundation for Innovation
  The Foundation will be investing funds over the next five to ten years in the development of research infrastructure in universities, colleges, hospitals and not-for-profit institutes.
  
  
• Canada Small Business Financing (CSBF) Program
  The CSBF Program helps new and existing small businesses obtain term loans of up to $250 000 directly from authorized lenders towards financing the purchase and improvement of fixed assets.
  
  
• Canada's Computers for Schools Program
  This program is responsible for channelling surplus computers and software into classrooms and public libraries across Canada.
  
  
• Canada's Digital Collections
  Designed to give Canadians 15 to 30 years of age entrepreneurial and technology-based job experience converting collections of material into digital form for display.
  
  
• Canada's International Business Strategy - CIBS
  The CIBS strategy and program of events consist of an overall trade objective for twelve sectors for the medium term, identification of priority markets and the approach developed to pursue the opportunities in each of these markets.
  
  
• Canada's SchoolNet
  An online resource for educational content, offering access to more than 5,000 learning services, resources and opportunities.
  
  
• Canadian Business Environmental Performance Office - BEPO
  A "virtual office" which provides easy one-stop access for business, particularly small and medium sized businesses, to environmental performance information and experts via the Internet.
  
  
• Canadian Business Map
  The Canadian Business Map is an Internet site which provides quick and seamless access to international, national, provincial, territorial and municipal business information.
  
  
• Canadian Capabilities in International Capital Projects - CCICP
  With CCICP, Canadian and foreign based firms will be able to search and find Canadian companies with expertise in specific sectors, and partner with them to develop and implement major capital projects around the world.
  
  
• Canadian Care Labelling Program
  This voluntary labelling program provides a means by which information on the care of textile articles can be conveyed to the consumer in a simple and easily understood format. The program is based on a system of five basic symbols.
  
  
• Canadian Company Capabilities
  This online database profiling over 36 200 Canadian companies contains vital company information that can be searched to locate Canadian suppliers and distribution channels, to determine competition, to form partnerships and to uncover export ventures.
  
  
• Canadian Environmental Solutions
  A portable, multimedia tool designed to provide an instantaneous response to environmental problems.
  
  
• Canadian Importers Database
  Canadian manufacturers and primary goods producers can find out the names and locations of the major companies importing specific products into Canada.
  
  
• Canadian Industry Statistics
  The Canadian Industry Statistics offer a comprehensive source of statistics on the Canadian and American industrial sectors.
  
  
• Canadian National Organization for the International Telecommunication Union - CNO/ITU-T standardization
  Promotes and coordinates full Canadian participation in the study program of the Standardization Sector of ITU-T.
  
  
• Canadian Patent Database
  The Canadian Patent Database is an interactive search site designed to help you create simple and powerful searches on Canadian patent information. This database lets you access patent descriptions and images from 1920 to the present time.
  
  
• Canadian Trade-marks Database
  This database is comprised of all active and many inactive marks that were either applied-for or registered pursuant to the current Trade-marks Act or former trade-mark legislation.
  
  
• CANARIE E-business Virtual Clusters Program
  A shared-cost funding program that will assist businesses, universities, and research institutions in developing, demonstrating, promoting and diffusing advanced innovative E-business applications in a distributed virtual cluster-oriented environment.
  
  
• Combined Form 22 - Annual Return and Corporation Income Tax Return Filing Option
  Corporations are able to file their 1999 and subsequent Canada Business Corporations Act Annual Return with Canada Customs and Revenue Agency's corporation income tax return.
  
  
• Commercial Education and Training Sector: Sector Development
  Designed to improve the competitiveness of the commercial education and training services industry in domestic and international markets.
  
  
• Community Access Program
  This program provides rural and remote communities with affordable public access to the Internet.
  
  
• Competition Act - Mergers / Pre-merger Notification of Large Transactions
  All mergers are reviewed by the Commissioner of Competition to determine whether or not they will likely prevent or lessen competition.
  
  
• Competition Act - Misleading Advertising and Deceptive Marketing Practices
  The Competition Act defines which marketing practices are illegal in Canada. The Act is enforced by the Competition Bureau.
  
  
• Competition Act - Pyramid Selling and Multi-Level Marketing Schemes
  The Competition Act is a federal law governing business conduct in Canada. The multi-level marketing and pyramid selling provisions of the Competition Act set out the responsibilities for operators and participants in these types of plans.
  
  
• Competition Act - Restraints to Competition
  The Competition Act allows legal recourse, both criminal and civil, against individuals and companies that engage in business activities that hinder competition.
  
  
• Competition Bureau Fees and Service Standards
  Fees are charged for pre-merger notification filings (PMN filings), Advance Ruling Certificates (ARCs), Advisory Opinions (AOs), and photocopies delivered under the Competition Act by the Competition Bureau.
  
  
• Compliance and Enforcement - Canada Business Corporations Act - CBCA
  All organizations incorporated under the CBCA or CCA-II must comply with the terms of these Acts. The branch reviews complaints relating to corporations or their management and initiates proceedings when possible.
  
  
• Computer Industry Resources Committed to the Leading Edge - CIRCLE
  Recognizes Canadian computer manufacturers on the basis of quality, Canadian ownership and various industrial development factors.
  
  
• Consumer Connection
  A one-stop Internet site for consumer information from Canada and beyond to help businesses measure and improve customer service.
  
  
• Contact! The Management Information Network
  A comprehensive database of management resources and local small business support organizations. It also contains educational business articles on-line, a directory of management software tools, listings of business awards and success stories.
  
  
• Contributions Program for Non-Profit Consumer and Voluntary Organizations
  The goal of the program is to strengthen the consumer's role in the marketplace by assisting consumer and voluntary organizations to represent the consumer interest efficiently and effectively.
  
  
• Copyright and Programming Undertakings
  The Programming Undertaking Regulations define a network as consisting of a person who transmits, by telecommunication, the person's programs directly or indirectly to the person who communicates the programs to the public by telecommunication.
  
  
• Copyright and the Definition of Small Cable Transmission System
  The Definition of Small Cable Transmission System Regulations state that, while there are exceptions, a "small cable transmission system" means a cable transmission system that transmits a signal to not more than 2000 premises in the same licensed area.
  
  
• Copyright and the Definition of Small Retransmission Systems
  The Small Retransmission Systems Regulations state that, while there are exceptions, a "small retransmission system" means a cable or a terrestrial retransmission system that retransmits a signal to not more than 2,000 premises in the same licensed area.
  
  
• Copyright for Local Signal and Distant Signal
  The Copyright Act sets out conditions under which the retransmission of broadcast signals (i.e. available over-the-air) does not constitute an infringement of copyright.
  
  
• Copyrights
  Copyright gives an owner the sole right to copy his or her work or permit someone else to do so. You can register your copyright with the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO).
  
  
• CRC - Communications Research Centre Canada
  A communications research facility,it is responsible for conducting leading edge R and D to develop the Canadian communications infrastructure and to support Canadian telecommunications firms
  
  
• Customer First
  "Customer First" is an Internet business product with interactive diagnostic tools to help businesses measure and improve customer service.
  
  
• Diagnostic and Benchmarking Tools
  A database that lists Canadian and international business diagnostic tools, benchmarking methodologies, diagnostic and benchmarking training, and related studies and reports.
  
  
• E-Commerce First Step
  A service aimed at helping small and medium-sized businesses determine what steps need to be taken to implement e-commerce into their business activities.
  
  
• e-START.ca
  e-START is a one stop library, designed to satisfy the information needs of Canadian post-secondary entrepreneurs.
  
  
• Electricity and Gas Inspection
  Specifies units for energy measurement, provides for approval, inspection, verification of meters, accreditation of meter verifiers.
  
  
• Employers Online
  Employers Online is a one-stop Web site to help you manage people and build business skills.
  
  
• Environmental Industry Virtual Office
  This Office's mission is to promote and facilitate the growth and development of the environmental industry.
  
  
• Exemptions From Filing Requirements of the Canada Business Corporations Act - CBCA
  Corporations incorporated under the CBCA can apply for exemptions from filing certain documents or complying with statutory requirements.
  
  
• Federal Business Incorporation - Canada Business Corporations Act - CBCA
  The Act and Regulations specify the conditions that must be met in order to form, operate and dissolve a legal federal corporation. All persons wishing to incorporate their business at the federal level must make an initial filing.
  
  
• Federal Co-operatives
  The Canada Cooperatives Act applies to all persons wishing to incorporate a federal co-operative which will carry on its activity in two or more provinces and will have a fixed place of business in more than one province.
  
  
• Federal Incorporation - Boards of Trade - Chambers of Commerce
  Responsible for the incorporation of and changes to boards of trade or chambers of commerce under the Boards of Trade Act.
  
  
• Federal Not-For-Profit Incorporation - Canada Corporations Act / Part II
  Non-profit organizations are incorporated at the federal level under the Canada Corporations Act, Part II. This includes both charitable corporations and membership corporations.
  
  
• FedNor's Business Competitiveness
  To foster competitiveness, FedNor has established a number of services in the areas of international trade and investment, procurement and supplier development, technology, telecommunications and business management skills development.
  
  
• FedNor's Not-For-Profit Fund
  This fund is designed to financially support initiatives of not-for-profit groups to build or create business and trade opportunities and specialized services in support of entrepreneurship, SMEs and regional economic development.
  
  
• FedNor's Pre-Commercial Fund
  The Fund is designed to help finance early stage R & D of innovative small and medium-size enterprises in Northern Ontario.
  
  
• FedNor's Tourism Fund
  This Fund provides financial support for broad-based regional initiatives that serve to strengthen Northern Ontario's tourism industry.
  
  
• Franchising in Canada: Information Sources
  This World Wide Web information product is designed to help in the education process and provides a network of information sources on franchising including associations, professional and government services, trade shows and conferences, and publications.
  
  
• Guide to Canadian Industries
  Thhe GCI is a series of guides to over 230 manufacturing industries. This Web site compiles industry-specific links to all sorts of information on companies, industry contacts, trends, financing, exporting, trade shows and more.
  
  
• Industrial Designs
  Industrial design registration gives you exclusive rights to your designs for a ten-year period, subject to maintenance fees.
  
  
• Industry Canada - Mandate
  Industry Canada's mandate is to help make Canadians more productive and competitive in the global, knowledge-based economy.
  
  
• Industry Canada Research Publications Program
  These publications are circulated in limited quantities to researchers and other interested parties for information and discussion.
  
  
• Information Highway/Science and Entrepreneurship (ISE) Camps 2001
  Industry Canada invites non-profit organizations to submit proposals to create jobs for youth operating hands-on day camps for children that focus on the information highway, science or entrepreneurship.
  
  
• Information Services - Corporations Directorate
  The Corporations Directorate offers many information services relating to incorporation and the status of federally incorporated entities.
  
  
• Integrated Circuit Topographies
  With the Integrated Circuit Topography Act, Canada has specialized legislation to protect integrated circuit topographies. The topography must be registered with CIPO's Registrar of Topographies.
  
  
• Intelligent Systems - IS
  This Web site provides access provides access to companies involved in the intelligent systems sector, sources of funding, conferences/workshops, national and international contacts, plus much more.
  
  
• International Business Development Support for Telecommunications and Information Technologies Sectors
  Offers various support services to Canadian telecommunications and information technologies companies interested in exporting their products and services.
  
  
• International Franchising: Information Sources
  This World Wide Web information product identifies international sources of information on franchising including foreign franchise associations, publications, exhibitions, market surveys providing some general guidelines for franchise network expansion.
  
  
• International Project Development Roadmap - IPDR
  Get aboard a special train and learn about the various steps that will enable you to prepare winning proposals for the development of international capital projects.
  
  
• International Telecommunications Policy and Coordination
  Establishes partnerships with industry to help with the preparation of international events.
  
  
• International Trade Centres - ITC - Supplement
  ITCs provide a "one-stop" trade service to Canadian firms that are export ready or currently involved in international business. This document lists the ITC offices across Canada.
  
  
• International Trade Centres - ITC
  ITCs provide a "one-stop" trade service to Canadian firms that are export ready or currently involved in international business.
  
  
• Investment Canada Act
  Reviews some kinds of proposed investments by non-Canadians
  
  
• Labelling - Non-Food
  The Competition Bureau administers the packaging and labelling of prepackaged non-food products at all levels of trade.
  
  
• Labelling - Principles and Guidelines for Environmental Labelling and Advertising
  The principles and guidelines regulate the use of claims about the environmental impact of consumer products, including requirements for the use of terms such as degradable, compostable, post-use, recyclable and recycled content on a product label.
  
  
• Labelling - Textiles
  The Competition Bureau administers the Textile Labelling Act and the Canadian Care Labelling Program at all levels of trade which specify the requirements for the labelling and advertising of consumer textile articles.
  
  
• Labelling Assessment Tools
  The Labelling Assessment Tools provide a quick method for obtaining general information on how to design and check the labelling of products to meet the labelling requirements of federal legislation.
  
  
• Labelling Claims
  Specific laws were enacted to ensure that the information on labels is not false or misleading and to ensure prescribed products are labelled in accordance with Regulations.
  
  
• Lobbyists Registration
  Individuals must register if they are paid to communicate with federal public office holders in attempts to lobby for the making, developing of legislative proposals, regulations, policies, and the awarding of grants.
  
  
• Measurement Canada
  Responsible for regulating and safeguarding the accuracy of trade measurement via the Weights and Measures Act and the Electricity and Gas Inspection Act.
  
  
• Metals and Minerals Industry Snapshots
  Detailed studies providing industry with an economic profile of the various metals and minerals processing industries in Canada.
  
  
• Monthly Economic Indicators - MEI
  The Monthly Economic Indicators (MEI) provides a view of what is happening in the Canadian economy, and gives current economic facts in an easy to read and convenient format. Each issue features a more in-depth analysis of selected topics.
  
  
• National Expertise Index - NEI
  A virtual registry providing a single-window access to individual researchers at universities, colleges and federal and provincial laboratories interested in working with you to advance your own research program or resolve your key technology challenges.
  
  
• National Insolvency Search Services
  Get immediate results on the easy to access national insolvency database. It includes basic estate information on all Bankruptcies and Proposals registered since 1978, receiverships registered since 1993 and information on all petitions.
  
  
• National Technology Index - NTI
  A virtual registry of information about thousands of Canadian technologies being developed at Canadian universities, federal and provincial laboratories and centres of excellence helping to locate licensing and joint research opportunities.
  
  
• Net Gain
  Has the information you need to help your business get started on the Internet!
  
  
• New Exporters to South America - NEXSA
  A market training/preparation in Canada, followed by a five-day trade mission to two key South American markets. NEXSA introduces new companies to South American market opportunities.
  
  
• Northern Ontario Business Development Loan Fund for Small to Medium-sized Businesses
  This program will help meet the specialized needs of small and medium-sized businesses in Northern Ontario, by considerably increasing the financing available and enhancing the supply of support and consulting services to businesses.
  
  
• Northern Ontario Economic Development Fund - NOEDF
  Provide assistance for projects that are part of community strategies to create employment and economic growth.
  
  
• Office of the Superintendent of Bankruptcy
  This Office helps to ensure that estates in bankruptcy, commercial re-organizations, consumer proposals and receiverships are administered in a fair and orderly manner.
  
  
• On-line Unclaimed Dividends Search Service
  Determine quickly and easily if unclaimed dividends from a bankruptcy are owed to you.
  
  
• Online federal incorporation
  The federal incorporation filing services are now available online at the Strategis Web site.
  
  
• Ontario Community Futures
  This program provides financial support to communities to develop and implement a long-term community strategic plan leading to the development of their local economy.
  
  
• Orderly Payment of Debts
  The Orderly Payment of Debts Regulations set out the fees and administrative requirements involved in obtaining a consolidation order in participating provinces.
  
  
• Patents
  Through a patent, the government gives the inventor the right to exclude others from making, using or selling his or her invention from the day the patent is granted to a maximum of 20 years after the day the patent application is filed.
  
  
• PEMD-I
  PEMD-I is intended to assist Canadian communities in initiating activities to attract, retain and expand foreign investment. This program will work on a cost-shared basis.
  
  
• Performance Plus
  This tool is designed for small business and for people preparing business plans. It enables them to benchmark their businesses against their peers and plan their operations objectively.
  
  
• Precious Metals Marking
  The Precious Metals Marking Act regulates quality, advertising and the proper use of quality marks, trademarks and other marks on articles made of gold, silver, platinum and palladium.
  
  
• Prime Minister's Awards for Teaching Excellence
  The awards are given to outstanding elementary and secondary school teachers across the country who have best prepared students for the challenges of a changing society and knowledge-based economy.
  
  
• Promotional Contests - Section 59 - Competition Act
  Section 59 of the Competition Act governs all promotional contests.
  
  
• Radiocommunications
  The Radiocommunication Act governs the use of the radio frequency spectrum resource in Canada. The main purpose of the Act is to allocate the spectrum to individuals and businesses who need wireless communication.
  
  
• Sector Competitiveness Frameworks - SCF
  SCFs are a series of industry studies providing timely and relevant analysis of competitiveness issues facing Canadian industries. They identify sectors or subsectors having potential for increased exports.
  
  
• Services 2000
  Services 2000 is the Canadian Government's Web site for International Negotiations related to Service Industries. This Web site is designed to help Canadian businesses to export and deliver their services around the world.
  
  
• Small Business Info-Fairs
  The Small Business Info-Fairs will provide one-stop shopping for existing and prospective small businesses on information for a broad range of federal programs and services.
  
  
• Smart Communities Program
  Industry Canada is looking for communities whose vision of the future involves the use of information and communication technologies in new and innovative ways to empower their residents, institutions and region as a whole.
  
  
• Solutions for Advanced Manufacturing (SAM)
  The SAM Web site acts as a clearinghouse of information on advanced manufacturing technologies.
  
  
• SourceCAN
  A single point of entry to the largest, most-comprehensive and up-to-date database of Canadian companies available online.
  
  
• Sources of Financing
  $ources of Financing is a new source of financing information for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
  
  
• Spectrum and Radio Policy
  This Directorate is responsible for developing policies for the allocation and use of the radio-frequency spectrum in Canada.
  
  
• Statutory Filings Under the Canada Business Corporations Act - CBCA
  Certain statutory filings must be made in order for a corporation to be in good standing and compliance with the Act.
  
  
• Steps to Competitiveness
  An electronic information product developed to enhance the competitiveness of service SMEs through the online presentation of business and management information, including self-assessment tools.
  
  
• Steps to Growth Capital
  An eight-step investment skills development program and four supplementary professional skills programs designed to equip entrepreneurs to access growth capital by becoming "investor ready".
  
  
• Strategis
  Strategis is the largest business information web site in Canada
  
  
• Student Connection
  The Student Connection Program will introduce Canadian businesses to the power of the Internet as a business tool.
  
  
• Take a World View... Export Your Services!
  This most comprehensive Internet and CD-ROM information products for exporters of services helps firms to determine export readiness and assists them to prepare for doing business internationally.
  
  
• Technology Partnerships Canada
  TPC is a technology investment fund. TPC advances and supports research, development and innovation in environmental technologies; enabling technologies and aerospace and defence.
  
  
• Technology Roadmaps
  Mechanisms enabling Canadian industry, academic institutions, research organizations and governments to identify the new critical technologies, skills and competencies required to meet future market demands.
  
  
• Telecommunication Engineering and Certification
  Provides strategic and technical information on information technology and telecommunications (ITT) standards to Canadian companies.
  
  
• Think Canada!
  Provides an overview of Canada's investment climate and opportunities. It also provides a comparison of several investment factors for Canada-U.S. jurisdictions.
  
  
• Trade Data Online
  Trade Data Online is a product designed to facilitate access to Canadian and U.S. trade statistics by commodity.
  
  
• Trade Team Alberta
  A partnership of the key public/private sector organizations in Alberta offering various forms of assistance (export preparedness, diversifying export markets, strengthened performance, investment attraction) to active and potential exporters.
  
  
• Trade Team B.C.
  A partnership of the key public/private sector organizations in B.C. offering various forms of assistance (export preparedness, diversifying export markets, strengthened performance, investment attraction) to active and potential exporters.
  
  
• Trade Team Manitoba
  A partnership of the key public sector organizations in Manitoba offering various forms of assistance (export preparedness, diversifying export markets, strengthened performance, investment attraction) to active and potential exporters.
  
  
• Trade Team New Brunswick
  A partnership of key provincial and federal governments coordinating trade development activities and streamlining services to exporters (export preparedness, diversifying export markets, strengthened performance, investment attraction).
  
  
• Trade Team Newfoundland & Labrador
  A partnership of federal and provincial government departments and agencies that offer various forms of assistance (export preparedness, diversifying export markets, strengthened performance, investment attraction) to active and potential exporters.
  
  
• Trade Team Nova Scotia
  A partnership of the key public sector organizations in Nova Scotia offering various forms of assistance (export preparedness, diversifying export markets, strengthened performance, investment attraction) to active and potential exporters.
  
  
• Trade Team P.E.I.
  A partnership of the key P.E.I. public sector organizations offering various forms of assistance (export preparedness, diversifying export markets, strengthened performance, investment attraction) to active and potential exporters.
  
  
• Trade Team Saskatchewan
  A partnership of the key public/private sector organizations in Saskatchewan offering various forms of assistance (export preparedness, diversifying export markets, strengthened performance, investment attraction) to active and potential exporters.
  
  
• Trade-marks
  Trade-mark registration gives you exclusive rights to words, symbols and designs, or combinations of these, that distinguish your wares or services from those of someone else.
  
  
• Trans-Forum
  Its purpose is to enhance technology and expertise transfer from higher education institutions to Canadian business, especially small and medium-size enterprises.
  
  
• U.S. Importers Database
  With this marketing tool, Canadian exporters and manufacturers can find out which American, as well as some Canadian, companies are importing the type of products they sell.
  
  
• Voluntary Sector Network Program - VolNet
  Voluntary Network Support Program (VolNet), is an initiative aimed at bringing Canada's voluntary sector on-line.
  
  
• Weights and Measures
  Weights and Measures Regulations specify the requirements for devices, commodities and services, local standards, fees and charges, specifications relating to devices, authorization of use of units of measurement and metric conversion.
  
  
• Winning Retail -- A Self Assessment and Instructional Guide for Independent Retailers
  A useful " how to " publication aimed at the retail industry. For those exploring the possibility of establishing their own retail store, this publication presents an opportunity for you to assess the strength of your concept and state of readiness.
  
  
• Wireless Telecommunications R & D Investment Program - WTP
  A funding program specifically designed to support innovative wireless telecommunication research and application development.