Where else can you support Canadian entrepreneurs, Canadian scale-ups, Canadian innovation, and the Canadian economy, all in a day’s work?The Accelerated Growth Service (AGS) was launched as a pilot in 2016 to provide high-growth firms with enhanced access to government programs and services which they need to scale-up. Led by ISED, AGS works closely with core partner organizations across Canada to offer a single-window access to the right government programs. The AGS model consists of a whole-of-government advisory function, in which key players are pulled in from participating departments to review and advise on a government growth plan for participating client firms. Following an in-depth performance assessment of the AGS and to enable a more consistent service experience for clients across Canada, Budget 2018 consolidated the National Research Council’s Concierge Service with the AGS. As part of Innovation Canada, the AGS continues to operate as an advisory service, wherein a firm has a single point of contact for Government – an Innovation Advisor – to help them navigate possible supports and remove blockers to growth. To date, the AGS has supported over 600 firms (largely in the $5-$20 million revenue range) with the vast majority indicating a positive experience.Building on the current Accelerated Growth Service, ISED proposes to build upon its existing tiered service model with a new premium scalability service tier available to the most promising high-growth firms to support them in their efforts in becoming one of Canada’s global leaders.The Account Executives will work with nominated, fast growing, scale-up Canadian companies to gain a clear understanding of their business needs and advise them accordingly on how to maneuver through the thousands of government programs and authorities to reach their goals.How can you do all of this? We do it with our partners. And in this role, you will have many of them. Alongside our team of talented, smart, and charming Innovation Advisors, you will be working with such groups as:Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC),Export Development Canada (EDC),The Regional Economic Development Agencies (RDAs),The Industrial Research Assistance Program (IRAP),The Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO),Global Affairs Canada (GAC),The Standards Council of Canada (SCC)Other groups within Innovation Canada such as The Strategic Innovation Fund (SIF), Innovative Solutions Canada (ISC) or Canada’s Superclusters…And many more federal, provincial and local organizationsWe bring together this team of partners and facilitate how we work together to support our companies. We all share the goal of making sure Canadian companies can get the right support, at the right time.
