Strategic Response Fund
Funds industrial innovation projects across Canada through large-scale contributions for AI infrastructure, advanced manufacturing, and resilience.
The Strategic Response Fund (SRF), administered by Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED), is the successor to the Strategic Innovation Fund and provides large-scale contributions to Canadian industrial innovation projects. The SRF operates as a rolling intake program with no fixed annual deadline, accepting applications on a continuous basis. Its mandate covers two primary cat…
Steel, aluminum, automotive, forest products (tariff response); R&D in critical minerals, aerospace, cleantech, biomanufacturing, life sciences; AI compute infrastructure.
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