Accelerating Innovations into CarE (AICE) – Market Access

Evaluation Process

All applications are reviewed and evaluated to determine fit with the AICE-Market Access Program objectives and intended outcomes. Alberta Innovates employees and external expert reviewers evaluate applications.

We evaluate submitted applications to the AICE-Market Access Program based on the strength of the market opportunity, competitiveness, advance to market plan, the project plan, and potential economic impact for Alberta.

An Applicant whose application is declined may re-apply after a six-month cooling-off period.

We retain the sole right to determine the evaluation process and assessment criteria and do not disclose the names of reviewers to ensure their objectivity and impartiality. Internal and external parties involved in the evaluation are subject to confidentiality and conflict-of-interest policies set by Alberta Innovates.

All investment decisions are at the sole discretion of Alberta Innovates.

Additional Alberta Innovates Supports and Resources

Entrepreneurial Investments – Alberta Innovates offers a variety of related, high demand entrepreneurial investment programs that are of interest to SMEs. View the Entrepreneurial Investments Team page here.

Technology Development Advisors – provide front-line business coaching and technology development advice to small and medium-size enterprises in technology or knowledge-based industries. View the Technology Development Advisors page here.

Partnered Ecosystem Offerings

Supports offered by other organizations in partnership with Alberta Innovates

Alberta Diagnostic Ecosystem Platform for Translation (ADEPT) provides diagnostic innovators with access to expertise, biological samples, clinical data, lab and clinical trial resources, regulatory support, and health economics analysis to enable diagnostic user community connections across Canada and around the world.   View their website here.

NAIT’s Center for Advanced Medical Simulation (CAMS) supports innovators to refine, revise and re-imagine their healthcare product or service. Providing custom simulations and connections to end-users for early customer feedback, usability testing, stress testing of clinical protocols and instructions for use, their team of experts will help expedite your commercialization timelines to get to market faster.  View their website here.

HaloHealth‘s Specialty Matched Physician Advisory Program is a physician angel investor and advisor group  composed of a team of over 390 physicians nationally who have an interest in advising high-potential, early-stage, health-tech startups related to product market fit, clinical feasibility, physician end user feedback and product medical validation. They have already invested in 40 healthcare startups and have had 4 exits. View their website here.

IHE’s Health Economics Supports for SMEs provides health innovators with early health economic research, analysis and modeling to inform market viability, data collection strategies, and to quantify the business/adoption case for payers.  View their website here.

ST Innovations offers a menu of medical device development services and laboratory infrastructure, prototyping equipment, engineering, biological testing, health data analytics, validation expertise and services, as well as access to expertise and services in large animal preclinical testing.  View their website here.

National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) provides evidence standards that enable innovators to determine what level of evidence may be required to facilitate adoption of digital health technologies. View their website here.

Health Canada‘s E-Learning Tool is a resource intended to educate stakeholders on premarket regulatory requirements for medical devices in Canada.  View their website here.