We’re Your
Innovation Link

We link entrepreneurs and businesses to available resources and supports to help them succeed on their journey.

Link North is the Regional Innovation Centre (RIC) for far northeast Ontario

Link North provides advisory services and funding, and delivers programming to help entrepreneurs develop business skills and build capacity. Through our connections with northeastern Ontario organizations and the provincial innovation ecosystem we also help facilitate access to additional resources and/or funding to support any stage of business development – discovery through to growth.

Client Services

We help clients navigate the entrepreneurial journey, and work with them to create a roadmap that aligns with their business development stage and goals.

Workshops

We offer and facilitate online and in-person workshops throughout the year in Timmins, Kirkland Lake, Kapuskasing and other far northeast Ontario communities. Our workshops build entrepreneurial skills and capacity.

Funding

We provide a 50% contribution up to $10,000 toward eligible costs for business development through our BOOST program.

Upcoming Events
& Workshops

Opportunities to develop your entrepreneurial skills and expand your network. See the complete schedule here.

Business Model Design

Our first workshop series introduces you to the Business Model Canvas; a visual tool that assists entrepreneurs with developing their business model. Using this tool you will gain a better...

Understanding Your Customer

Participants will gain an understanding of who their customer is, what they value, and what their need or problem is and how your product or service can provide a solution...

Financial Fundamentals

Understanding and managing finances is crucial to your business’s success. You will learn how to budget, properly forecast revenues and expenses, and measure your business’s performance. 3-part workshop series.

DewAir is scaling operations with success in recent months, but we’ve had our share of struggles during the first year of operations. The main distribution and supply chain we were counting on to sell our disruptive technology didn’t materialize. We knew the end user would reap benefits of our technology, but unfortunately the middlemen we would have worked with didn’t see value in it for them. We weren’t prepared to give up, and Link North who’s supported us all along is providing direction, support and access to funding as we pivot our business model.

Link North helped us reconfigure and modernize our kitchen facility and chocolate-making equipment, and we realized some pretty significant productivity improvements. With their support we’ve increased our daily production by 50% and improved our tempering process, achieving higher consistency and quality with our chocolate bonbons. With a more efficient kitchen, we now have more time to delight our customers with a wider offering of products to fill their sweet tooth.

Over the years Link North’s provided strategic direction and helped us secure various funding for prototyping and market development for our Sure-Align Tracker products. With their support we’ve been able to hone our efforts on business development and growth.

Since founding SurveyTech in 2016, we’ve expanded our business to include a few satellite offices to support our growing customer base. As we scaled operations, it became apparent that the equipment tracking and client management systems adopted at startup were starting to create bottlenecks and gaps in information. Link North provided support for us to bring in an expert who assessed our needs and proposed a tailored solution. The resulting new streamlined and integrated system we now use provides accurate and reliable information from which I can make informed business decisions.

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We’re Your Innovation Link