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Innovation, Science and Industry

How Innovation, Science and Industry spent its budget in fiscal year 2024-25, shown as net expenditures by standard object from Public Accounts Volume II.

Department Spending

In FY 2024-25,

$10.9B

was spent by Innovation, Science and Industry

In FY 2024-25,

2.0%

of federal spending was by Innovation, Science and Industry

How did Innovation, Science and Industry spend its budget in 2024-25?

Spending by entity, FY 2024-25

Department of Industry

National Research Council of Canada

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council

Statistics Canada

Canadian Space Agency

Canadian Tourism Commission

Federal Economic Development Agency for Northern Ontario

Standards Council of Canada

Copyright Board

$4.84B

$1.71B

$1.47B

$1.3B

$734.3M

$634.7M

$116M

$64.1M

$25.6M

$5.1M

Innovation, Science and Industry’s share of federal spending

Percentage of federal spending, 2014–2025

Line items

Every transfer-payment (grant and contribution) program, in dollars. These are the named programs behind the transfer-payments object in the chart above. Search, sort, and download the full table.

Transfer payments
CategoryDescriptionAmount
ContributionsContributions under the Strategic Innovation Fund$1,703,467,211
GrantsGrants and Scholarships$1,100,448,229
ContributionsContributions under the Canada Foundation for Innovation$549,054,615
GrantsResearch Support Fund$466,451,926
GrantsGrants and Scholarships$396,287,824
ContributionsIndustrial Research Assistance Program—Contributions to Firms$380,974,502
ContributionsContributions under the Universal Broadband Fund$257,120,579
ContributionsContributions under the Global Innovation Clusters$208,945,285
ContributionsContribution under the Digital Research Infrastructure Strategy$168,737,584
ContributionsContributions to Mitacs Inc.$135,000,000
GrantsGrants under the Canada Digital Adoption Program: Stream 2$134,892,735
GrantsNew Frontiers in Research Fund$123,554,063
GrantsCollege and Community Innovation Program$103,995,890
ContributionsContributions under the Strategic Science Fund$96,110,585
GrantsCanada Graduate Scholarships$89,914,837
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Innovation, Science and Industry figures are net expenditures by standard object from Public Accounts Volume II, and will not match the Volume I consolidated headline totals. See the methodology for details.