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Home > Funding Programs > Accelerating Innovations into CarE (AICE) – Market Access
The AICE-Market Access Program (AICE-Market Access) supports Alberta-based emerging health technology companies with up to $600,000 to help generate the evidence needed to accelerate market access and commercialization into care.
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AICE-Market Access supports Alberta’s small-medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in carrying out real-world implementation projects, feasibility studies or clinical trials of innovative health technologies in partnership with testing sites located anywhere in the world.
Alberta Innovates will contribute up to $600,000 CAD (to a maximum of 75 per cent of the total eligible project costs) to support approved Projects over a maximum term of 24 months.
The program is designed to support later validation and scaling stages for health innovations requiring significant clinical or user evidence before reaching the marketplace and adoption. Click the infographic below to see details of the Health Innovation Client Journey Framework and to assess your fit to the program.
Due date: Continuous
The AICE-Market Access Program is open to:
Projects must include a third party independent clinical/user testing site as a co-applicant.
Consult the program guide for full eligibility criteria.
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.
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.
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.
Director, Commercialization (Health Innovation)
Application deadlines: 1) Intake forms can be submitted at any time, and at least 4 weeks in advance of any posted application deadline. 2) Invited Full Applications: a) Prior to March 31, 2024 – Full Applications will continue to be accepted on a continual basis up until March 31, 2024. b) After April 1, 2024 – Full Applications will be accepted and reviewed in batches through out the year. Applications must be submitted by 4:00 pm (MT) on the following submission dates: • April 19, 2024 • August 16, 2024 • November 8, 2024
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Health & Life Sciences
Sectors: Health & Life Sciences
Initiative description: We are advancing digital health technologies to accelerate improvements in the quality and long-term sustainability of our health system and the health of Albertans.