Technology Fast 50^TM ranking & Companies-to-Watch award

1. Your company must be either Canadian-controlled or headquartered in Canada. Your management team and R&D activities must also be located in Canada.  
2. Your company must invest a minimum of 5% of gross revenues in R&D.  
3. Your company must own a proprietary technology or have intellectual property that contributes to a significant portion of operating revenue.
4. Your company must have minimum revenues of $50,000 in 2005 and $5,000,000 in 2009 (not applicable to Companies-to-Watch award applicants). 
5. Your company operates within one of the following four sub-sectors:
   1. Emerging technologies (e.g. green technology, nanotechnology)
   2. Hardware/semiconductor
   3. Software
   4. Telecommunications/wireless
6. Service offering firms are not eligible to the program

Technology Fast 50^TM Leadership award

The criteria by which companies are considered are as follows:

Competitive advantage - Clear market focus, successful business model and strategy, superior intellectual property, superior customer adoption rate.
Size, growth and market attractiveness - Rapidly growing market segment, global market potential of $1 billion or more, product that directly addresses customer needs.
Management effectiveness and organization - Entrepreneurial experience, strength and depth of corporate culture, proven track record of managing profitable growth. 
Financial performance - Five-year growth over 200%, profitability.

Technology Green 15^TM award

The criteria by which companies are considered are as follows:

1. Your company must be either Canadian-controlled or headquartered in Canada. In addition, your management team and R&D activities must also be located in Canada.
2. Your company must invest a minimum of 5% of gross revenues in R&D.
3. Your company must own a proprietary technology or have intellectual property that contributes to a significant portion of operating revenue.
4. Your company must maintain a minimum revenue of $500,000 in its most recent year period of operations.
5. A majority of your company's revenues must come from products that have a positive environmental impact, being one of the following:
   1. Global warming prevention and energy saving
   2. Resources Circulation (Reduce, Reuse and Recycle)
   3. Environmental preservation and safety.
6. Service offering firms are not eligible to the program

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