{"id":63076,"date":"2015-06-25T02:06:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-25T10:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=63076"},"modified":"2015-06-25T10:06:48","modified_gmt":"2015-06-26T06:06:48","slug":"government-funding-crucial-to-canadian-businesses-data-shows","status":"publish","type":"magazine","link":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/magazine\/government-funding-crucial-to-canadian-businesses-data-shows","title":{"rendered":"Government Funding Crucial to Canadian Businesses, Data Shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 11px 33px; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3913\/18496610674_f924dc7220_o.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"154\" \/>New data released by <a href=\"http:\/\/thefundingportal.com\/tfportal\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Funding Portal<\/a> shows how critical government funding is for many Canadian businesses seeking capital to expand.<\/p>\n<p><!-- pagebreak --><\/p>\n<p>Throughout 2014, Canadian governments delivered $14.4 billion in grants and tax credits to organizations across a range of industries, with manufacturers securing more than $3 billion during the year.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly half of the funding disbursed to all businesses in 2014, 49.6%, flowed to companies in Ontario.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The 2014 data makes both the volume and diversity of government funding programs in Canada very clear,&rdquo; said Funding Portal CEO Teri Kirk.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/261\/18931515238_d4c264d204_o.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"477\" height=\"601\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tech and digital media ranked third with $276M in Q4 ($1.32B in 2014). Q4 was a slow quarter for cleantech, with $109M secured ($407M in 2014).<\/p>\n<p>Quebec attracted the second highest level of awards in Q4 with $896M ($3.1B in 2014). B.C. ranked third with $238M in Q4 ($958.6B in 2014).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New data released by The Funding Portal shows how critical government funding is for many Canadian businesses seeking capital to expand. Throughout 2014, Canadian governments delivered $14.4 billion in grants and tax credits to organizations across a range of industries, with manufacturers securing more than $3 billion during the year. Nearly half of the funding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55555,"featured_media":63078,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"magazine-region":[],"magazine-series":[],"magazine-topic":[],"class_list":["post-63076","magazine","type-magazine","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/63076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/magazine"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/55555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/63076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/63078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63076"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-region?post=63076"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-series?post=63076"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-topic?post=63076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}