Conseil de l'innovation du Quebec

Name

Conseil de l'innovation du Quebec

Legal name

Conseil de l'Innovation du Québec

Website

https://conseilinnovation.quebec

Company type

Private

Founded year

2020

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Government Innovation Advisory Services

NAICS

Administration of Economic Programs (9261), Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support (921)

SIC

Services-Management Consulting Services (8742), Services-Membership Organizations (8600)

akta.pro primary industry

Technical Enablement & Adoption Services (Change Management, Adoption, Champions) (BPAEANAC)

akta.pro secondary industry

Trade, Industry & Economic Development Administration (BPAIAAAL)

Keywords

• Innovation advisory services
• Government innovation policy
• AI governance consulting
• Innovation ecosystem platform
• Innovation measurement tools

Headquarters

HQ city

Montréal

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Government Funding: The CIQ is a Crown corporation established by the Quebec government in 2020. It receives public funding to fulfill its mandate of dynamizing innovation across Quebec's enterprises and society.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

The Conseil de l'innovation du Québec is a provincial government advisory body that provides free innovation consulting, ecosystem coordination, and digital platform services to Quebec enterprises and government. It connects businesses to a network of nearly 800 certified innovation advisors across all 15 Quebec regions, maintains comprehensive directories of innovation resources and funding programs, measures innovation activity through the Baromètre de l'innovation, and leads collective reflection on AI governance policy for the Quebec government.

Product overview

The Conseil de l'innovation du Québec operates a platform ecosystem centered on innoveici.quebec - a free personalized guidance platform that connects entrepreneurs with a network of nearly 500-800 certified innovation advisors across Quebec. The core offering includes AccèsPRO (an intelligent directory of 700+ organizations and 250 funding programs), the Baromètre de l'innovation (an interactive measurement tool), and the Formation innove+ training program for advisors. The organization also manages the AI Quebec Showcase (Vitrine IA Québec) with the integrated Miria AI recommendation agent, conducts the annual Grande Enquête sur l'innovation survey, and organizes the PIVOT 2026 innovation event. These interconnected services work together to guide Quebec enterprises through the innovation ecosystem from advisory support to resource matching and impact measurement.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Baromètre de l'innovation du Québec: Innovation measurement tool and dashboard developed by the Council to track innovation performance across Quebec regions and sectors
• Vitrine IA Québec
• Réseau des conseiller.ère.s en innovation

Products and services

• Innoveici.quebec Platform A free, personalized guidance platform connecting Quebec entrepreneurs with certified innovation advisors, providing access to expertise, resources, and funding opportunities for innovation projects.
• AccèsPRO

Quantifiable outcome

• 69% of Quebec enterprises now undertake at least one innovation project (2024), up from 51% in 2022
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

AI capability2 records

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Ten partnerships are on record, tiered core, regional and international.

• ADRIQ (Association pour le développement de la recherche et de l'innovation du Québec)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 19 February 2026Strategic collaboration agreement signed to propel innovation in Quebec through seven strategic pillars: training development, cross-promotion, innovation excellence promotion through Prix Coup de cœur, Baromètre de l'innovation participation, digital transformation collaboration, joint events, and public policy consultation.
• Espaces PME innovationregionalStrategic or Co-development Partner · 3 December 2025Renewed regional partnership facilitating rapid, easy, and free contact between businesses with innovation projects and innovation advisors. Part of the Réseau Accès PME initiative.
• SillonscoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 6 November 2025Partnership to strengthen the development and reach of social innovation in Quebec. Collaboration focuses on three objectives: promoting social innovation's transformative potential, strengthening expertise across the territory, and establishing links between different innovation ecosystems.
• APCHQ (Association des professionnels de la construction et de l'habitation du Québec)regionalStrategic or Co-development Partner · 28 October 2025Partnership to create the new 'Coup de cœur de l'innovateur en chef' award for the construction sector, consolidating this recognition within the prestigious ADRIQ Gala des Prix Innovation.
• Business FranceinternationalGTM or Marketing Partner · 5 February 2025French partner that facilitated strategic connections during the France-Québec AI mission, including linkages with Guillaume Avrin, France's national AI coordinator.
• Union des municipalités québécoisesregionalStrategic or Co-development Partner · 23 January 2025Collaborative workshop to co-construct AI training content for Quebec municipalities, bringing together municipal actors and AI experts.
• PME MTLregionalStrategic or Co-development Partner · 15 January 2025Partnership with the Ville de Montréal's business support network to provide Montreal-area businesses with simplified and rapid access to innovation advisors through the Innoveici.quebec platform.
• OECD (Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques)internationalStrategic or Co-development Partner · 12 December 2024OECD Secretary-General James Cormann visited CIQ headquarters, with participation from board members. CIQ collaborates with OECD on innovation policy research and participates in various OECD events.
• IVADO (Institut de valorisation des données)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 12 September 2024Joint development of an AI training module exclusively for the network of innovation advisors in Quebec. IVADO provides AI expertise to enhance the capabilities of CIQ's 500+ certified advisors to support enterprises in AI integration.
• Forum IA QuébeccoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 20 January 2023Forum IA Québec joined CIQ's organization effective January 31, 2023, to accelerate AI development across Quebec.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Others

• Mitacs: Canadian not-for-profit organization connecting businesses with academic researchers through funded internships and innovation programs. A thematically adjacent enabler of the Canadian innovation ecosystem with partial overlap in facilitating enterprise-innovation partnerships.

Broad incumbents

• Investissement Québec: Quebec's broader economic development agency providing funding, financing, and advisory services to Quebec businesses. Overlaps with CIQ in serving Quebec enterprises with innovation needs but covers a much wider mandate (investment, exports, financing) beyond pure innovation advisory.
• BDC (Business Development Bank of Canada): Federal Canadian development bank providing financing, advisory, and growth capital to Canadian entrepreneurs. Overlaps with CIQ in serving SMEs with innovation and growth needs, but with a broader mandate including direct lending rather than pure advisory.

Direct peers

• Ontario Centre of Innovation: Ontario's provincial innovation agency connecting SMEs to advisors, funding, and commercialization support. Highly comparable in scope, structure, and target customers (provincial SMEs seeking innovation assistance), with the main difference being jurisdiction.
• Innovate UK: UK's national innovation agency funding and supporting business-led innovation, with comparable functions in advisor networks, funding program databases, and innovation measurement. A structurally similar public-body model to CIQ, operating at national rather than sub-national scale.
• NRC IRAP (Industrial Research Assistance Program): Federal Canadian program that provides innovation advisory and funding to SMEs, including technology advisory services that closely parallel the CIQ's innoveici.quebec advisor-matching model. Operates nationally, making it a direct functional counterpart to CIQ's Quebec-only mandate.
• MaRS Discovery District: Toronto-based innovation hub that provides advisory, programming, and ecosystem coordination to Canadian entrepreneurs and enterprises. Comparable in serving as a centralized convening body for a provincial/regional innovation ecosystem, with overlapping programs in AI, advisor matching, and ecosystem measurement.

Regional players

• European Innovation Council: EU-level public body funding and supporting breakthrough innovation by European SMEs and startups. A public-agency innovation advisory model highly comparable in structure and mission to CIQ, but operating at supranational European scale.
• Innovate BC: British Columbia's provincial innovation agency supporting startups, scale-ups, and technology adoption. Comparable in mandate (provincial innovation promotion and ecosystem coordination) but serving a different Canadian province.

Emerging players

• Creative Destruction Lab: Toronto-based seed-stage accelerator for science- and technology-based ventures, with a mentor-driven model. Partial overlap with CIQ's ecosystem support mission, though focused on a narrower (early-stage, high-growth) segment than CIQ's broad enterprise-advisory scope.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/conseilinno_qc
• YouTubeyoutube.com/@conseildelinnovationduqueb7018/featured?sub_confirmation=1
• Facebookfacebook.com/ConseilinnovationQuebec
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/conseilinnovationquebec

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles8 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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