Innovation and high technology

Thanks to the excellence of its universities and research centres, combined with highly competitive research and development (R&D) taxation policies, Greater Montréal offers an optimal business environment for innovative companies. This is what has enabled the area to become a world leader in innovation.

Greater Montréal excels in three high technology clusters: aerospace, life sciences and information and communications technologies (ICT).

The Montréal area boasts the largest concentration of research and development (R&D) activities in Canada. It encompasses the largest number of university researchers, research centres and R&D investments. It is not surprising that the Montréal area holds the largest number of patents in Canada and has climbed to 5th place in North America for its concentration in high-tech jobs.

Bolstered by its technological, cultural and artistic diversity, Greater Montréal offers an open, stimulating and favourable environment for the emergence of new ideas. By relying on the largest network of research expertise in Canada, companies in the Montréal area develop world-renown innovative products.

Montréal is one of the major international intellectual urban conglomerations where wealth is created and where companies establish ties to strengthen their presence on the world scene.