BOOST Program (Innovation Link)
by Timmins Economic Development Corporation
Also known as: Timmins BOOST cost-share funding
BOOST gives Timmins-area businesses up to $10,000 in cost-share funding for innovation projects, commercializing new products, services, or technologies, wrapped in the Innovation Link's roadmapping and workshop support. It is FedNor-backed: a June 2026 REGI investment of $833,661 (reported) funds delivery for three more years. Intake details and eligible-cost rules come from Timmins Economic Development directly (tedc@timmins.ca, 705-360-2656).
Key facts
- Amount
- Up to $10,000 Up to $10,000 in cost-share funding toward eligible innovation/commercialization projects, delivered through Timmins Economic Development's Innovation Link alongside roadmapping and workshops.
Against all tracked amounts, $1,000 to $500,000,000, logarithmic.
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access up to $10,000 in BOOST cost-share funding towards eligible projects
- Instrument
- Grant (non-repayable)
- Status
- Open, continuous intake no fixed deadline; approvals on the funder's cycle
- Who qualifies
- Businesses
- business
- sme
- Local businesses enhancing innovation, commercializing new products/services/technologies, growing and creating local jobs (per FedNor program description)
- Cost-share, applicant contributes to project costs
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- Where
- Cochrane DistrictThis program is limited to one district.
1 of 11 Northern Ontario districts are eligible for this program. A filled dot is eligible, an outline is not.
How do you apply?
Call first. This funder expects contact with a program officer before you apply.
- Contact Timmins Economic Development / Innovation Link
- Build a project roadmap with staff and attend workshops
- Apply for BOOST cost-share on the eligible project
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Common questions
What kinds of projects qualify?
Innovation and commercialization work, developing or bringing to market new products, services, or technologies, and scaling the business to create local jobs. It's cost-share, so your business contributes alongside the up-to-$10,000.
Who funds BOOST?
The City of Timmins delivers it through Economic Development's Innovation Link, backed by FedNor's Regional Economic Growth through Innovation (REGI) program, a reported $833,661 renewal in June 2026 covers three more years of delivery.
How do I apply?
Start with Timmins Economic Development, the published path is building a roadmap with staff and attending workshops before accessing the cost-share. No fixed public deadline is posted; confirm current intake with tedc@timmins.ca.
Where else could this money come from?
Chosen by what these programs have in common with this one, not by hand. The reason is shown for each, so you can judge whether it holds.
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Starter Company Plus (Business Enterprise Centre)
Next intake not announced same funder (TEDC); both for startups & new entrepreneurs; timmins — Up to $5,000
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Summer Company (Business Enterprise Centre)
Next intake not announced same funder (TEDC); both for startups & new entrepreneurs; timmins — Up to $3,000
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INVEST North, Innovation Stream
Open, continuous intake both for small business, expansion and startups & new entrepreneurs; innovation, commercialization — Up to $2,000,000
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Destination Northern Ontario Partnership Initiatives
Open, continuous intake both for small business, expansion; cost share — Not published
Notes on this record
The $833,661 FedNor REGI renewal figure is from a June 2026 canada.ca news release (search-reported, not fetched directly). Detailed eligibility/intake rules are not published on timminsedc.com, hedged accordingly.
Apply
Apply on the funder’s site and confirm current terms there: