Workplace Innovation and Productivity Skills Incentive (WIPSI)

Offers funding incentives to small businesses in Nova Scotia for employee and management training.
  • Nova Scotia Department of Labour and Advanced Education
Overview of the Workplace Innovation and Productivity Skills Incentive (WIPSI) program:

The Workplace Innovation and Productivity Skills Incentive (WIPSI) supports new and incremental activity to help businesses compete outside Nova Scotia. Training should help your business move in a new direction, expand your core operations, and promote growth and profitability. The incentive isn’t for training to increase competitiveness with other Nova Scotia businesses. It also can’t support training that could be supported by. the Workplace Education Initiative, which supports essential business skills like leadership, sales, marketing, and social media.

Benefits of the Workplace Innovation and Productivity Skills Incentive (WIPSI) program:
  • Types of training that are eligible for funding include:
  • Information technology training
  • Technical training
  • Workflow systems and processes training
  • Other training that will benefit your business or organization and that isnt typically eligible for funding through other government programs
Eligibility criteria of the Workplace Innovation and Productivity Skills Incentive (WIPSI) program:
  • You can apply as an individual business, or as an organization or association on behalf of a group of businesses.
  • A business is eligible to apply if it:
  • Is located in Nova Scotia)
  • Is registered and active in the Nova Scotia Registry of Joint Stock Companies or incorporated by an Act of the Nova Scotia Legislature)
  • Has been operating for at least 1 full calendar year)
  • Generating at least 30% of revenue from commercial activity (any business activity occupied with commerce or trade with an expectation of profit)
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