What will happen to Canadian digital technology without DTAPP?

In 2011, faced with an outpour of Canadian dollars going to more tech-savvy American companies, the Minister of Industry launched a three-year pilot program to speed up the digital technology adoption rate of Canadian businesses. The Digital Technology Adoption Pilot Program (or “DTAPP”) was t ...

Patent Trolling: Good or Bad for Innovation Funders?

On October 3, 2013, the United States took a giant step forward in the pursuit of real patent reform with the introduction of the Innovation Act of 2013. While over the past few years, billion-dollar patent infringement lawsuits involving tech giants like Apple, Samsung, Microsoft, and Google have g ...

Equity Crowdfunding Will Favor Quebec and Quebeckers

Since July, 2012, Invest Crowdfund Québec (ICC-Q) has been spearheading efforts to get equity crowdfunding legalized in Québec. In a recent interview with ICC-Q’s vice-president, Diana Yazidjian, she expressed her conviction that once the Quebec Securities Commission (AMF) legalizes equity crowd ...

First multimedia and now big data: how Quebec is providing the right environment

The Parti Quebecois is creating a more enticing environment for cloud-computing and data operations companies by offering attractive tax holidays, subsidized electricity, and other incentives. The province recently announced in the budget a 10-year corporate tax holiday on companies that invest mo ...

Will the PQ cut government funding programs for startups in their November 20 budget?

The Parti Quebecois, Quebec’s provincial government, has announced that they will release their budget on November 20th. While Finance Minister Nicholas Marceau claims that a new budget is needed to balance the books in 2013-2014, several pundits see the move as an obvious one in self-preservation ...