Funding Selection Criteria
Applications will be evaluated on their ability to meet the following criteria:
- Applicant’s ability to achieve the expected results, as demonstrated by the competence and capabilities of the applicant’s management team, it’s commitment to the project.
- Projected economic and environmental benefits to Ontario, including the scale of reasonableness of the benefits expected from the project and interactions with other segments of the Ontario economy (e.g. through strengthening of economic clusters across the province).
- Organizations who are looking to expand their products to global markets and / or are representing a sector or industry in the following areas:
- Environmental science and technologies;
- Natural resources and energy;
- Health and related life sciences and technologies, including the food and beverage industry
- Information and communications technologies; and
- Advanced Manufacturing.
- Creation of long-term employment and high-value jobs;
- Improved competitiveness and economic growth in southern Ontario;
- Accountability mechanisms are in place to ensure due diligence in completing the project and ability to report on performance measures;
- Expectation of success for the project, as demonstrated by the feasibility, clarity and specificity of the project plan.
- All project activities must be completed by December 31, 2013.
