Soutien aux entreprises technologiques innovantes: Appui aux jeunes entreprises innovantes à fort potentiel de croissance – Primo-adoptants (Support for Innovative Technology Companies: Support for Young Innovative Companies with High Growth Potential – First-time Adopters)

Applicants must be for-profit companies and social economy enterprises that:
1. are innovative and high-growth potential (startups) with less than five years of existence;
2. are owned by less than 50% by other companies or organizations;
3. are not created through a consolidation, restructuring, expansion of pre-existing activities, or takeover of such activities;
4. have rights to use the intellectual property of their product or process;
5. allocate a significant portion of their resources (50% or more) to the company’s development as well as the design, development, or marketing of their product or process.
6. meet the following conditions:
a) not be or use services of subcontractors registered in the Register of Companies Ineligible for Public Contracts (RENA);
b) have fulfilled all obligations related to previous financial assistance from the Government of Quebec or Investissement Québec for at least 2 years;
c) not be a government-owned corporation or a corporation controlled directly or indirectly by a government (municipal, provincial, or federal), a municipal entity, or companies that are majority-owned by a government-owned corporation;
d) not be in a state of bankruptcy or insolvency;
e) not commit ethical violations or offer products or services that could compromise the integrity or question the probity of the Quebec government, even indirectly.