New Regional Innovation Centre Planned for Barrie

by Innovation Factory
June 5, 2024

Expanding Regional Innovation Centres to Barrie. Ontario is continuing to promote entrepreneurship and innovation by investing an additional $1 million per year starting in 2024–25 in Ontario’s Regional Innovation Centres (RICs). With this funding, the government will launch a new RIC in Barrie to further expand the regional benefits of innovation and economic growth.

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Innovation Factory is a business accelerator, dedicated to helping Ontario-based businesses launch, scale, and succeed. We provide start-ups, and scaling companies with advisory services, training, mentorship, and strategic connections to help bring disruptive technologies to market, leverage intellectual property, increase revenues, attract investment and create jobs. Serving as the catalyst for tech innovation in the greater Hamilton area since 2011 we are driven to help: Entrepreneurs bring new ideas to life and to market Small/Medium Enterprises (SMEs) get to the next level Hamilton build a dynamic culture and a community of innovation Innovation can happen anywhere. Our goal is to make it work everywhere. We work to elevate key industry sectors including, advanced manufacturing, clean tech, information technology, integrated mobility, life sciences & health care and social innovations.