{"id":2099,"date":"2025-02-13T13:43:53","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T18:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rdcapital.ca\/?p=2099"},"modified":"2025-02-13T13:43:54","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T18:43:54","slug":"more-support-for-research-and-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rdcapital.ca\/en\/more-support-for-research-and-development\/","title":{"rendered":"More support for research and development"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Message from the President<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>As all economists know, business productivity is an essential lever for prosperity and wealth creation. La Presse + reminded us in its December 14 edition that Quebec and Canada are, unfortunately, at the bottom of the class when it comes to productivity. In a ranking produced by <em>HEC Montr\u00e9al&#8217;s Centre sur la prosp\u00e9rit\u00e9 et la productivit\u00e9<\/em>, to which the daily referred, GDP per hour worked in Qu\u00e9bec and Canada as a whole stands at $79.40 and $84.80 respectively. By comparison, Germany, France and the United States posted performances of $112.90, $108.60 and $104.30 respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This productivity gap is partly explained by Quebec and Canada&#8217;s underperformance in their ability to innovate and take advantage of the country&#8217;s huge pool of R&amp;D talent. In the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conferenceboard.ca\/product\/innovation-report-card_2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Conference Board&#8217;s 2024 Innovation Report Card<\/a>, Canada ranks 15th out of 20 countries analyzed for its overall innovation performance. South Korea, Switzerland and Singapore top the list, followed by Germany, Sweden, Israel and the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>More support for research and development<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Faced with these worrying facts, it is imperative that our governments in Canada continue to provide significant support to our companies in their R&amp;D work, so that they can innovate further, increase their productivity and enhance their competitiveness. In fact, one of the Conference Board&#8217;s recommendations in its report on innovation is to \u201cmake intellectual property (IP) and research and development (R&amp;D) the key drivers of commercial success by improving funding and programs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unfortunately, over the past few years, we have witnessed a financial disengagement on the part of governments. Among other things, this has resulted in a reduction in government R&amp;D tax credits available to companies, which has had a harsh impact on the affected sectors. As a company specializing in the financing of refundable tax credits, R&amp;D Capital has seen for itself the negative effects of the Quebec government&#8217;s decision last spring to revise downwards the tax credits offered to companies operating in the multimedia and video game sectors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Prioritizing wealth creation<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Rather than giving in to the temptation to cut R&amp;D aid to ease short-term spending, our governments should look to the long term and redouble their efforts to help our companies meet our productivity and innovation challenges. Our future prosperity depends on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wealth creation is mainly generated by our companies and SMEs. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bdc.ca\/en\/articles-tools\/business-strategy-planning\/manage-business\/10-things-didnt-know-canadian-sme\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">BDC<\/a> underlines that 99.8% of businesses in Canada are SMEs, and that they employ 85.2% of all workers in the country. Our governments don&#8217;t just have a mandate to redistribute wealth. They also have the primary duty of creating the environment and conditions that will enable this wealth to be created. This includes strong support for innovation and structuring assistance programs, including the maintenance of refundable R&amp;D tax credits that directly stimulate investment in technological development by our companies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the current difficult economic climate, this is certainly not the time for our governments to lessen their support for our entrepreneurs, who, on the contrary, need to be able to count on predictable, reliable government assistance that is well adapted to their needs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Pierre Binette<\/em><br>President<br>R&amp;D Capital<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About us<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rdcapital.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/one-pager-2024-english.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">R&amp;D Capital<\/a>&nbsp;is the Canadian expert in the financing of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/revenue-agency\/services\/scientific-research-experimental-development-tax-incentive-program.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">research and development tax credits (SRED)<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.revenuquebec.ca\/en\/entreprises\/impots\/impot-des-societes\/credits-dimpot-des-societes\/credits-auxquels-une-societe-peut-avoir-droit\/credit-dimpot-pour-le-developpement-des-affaires-electroniques\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">e-business tax credits<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.revenuquebec.ca\/en\/entreprises\/impots\/impot-des-societes\/credits-dimpot-des-societes\/credits-auxquels-une-societe-peut-avoir-droit\/credit-dimpot-pour-des-titres-multimedias\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">multimedia tax credits<\/a>. Don\u2019t hesitate to contact us. You\u2019ll receive fast, courteous and straightforward service, and within 10 working days you\u2019ll know what financing is available to you. For more information, you can reach us by e-mail at pbinette@rdcapital.ca or at (514) 798-0493, ext. 222. We look forward to helping you realize your projects and ambitions.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More support for research and development<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1691,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,37,38,52,50],"class_list":["post-2099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-e-business","tag-financing-sred","tag-financing-tax-credits","tag-multimedias-3","tag-sred"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>More support for research and development - R&amp;D Capital<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"More support for research and development. 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