Eligibility

• Business projects or businesses that did not take in any sales revenue* before April 1, 2011.
• Projects designed to create a new business in Québec to be launched no later than December 31, 2012.

* "Sales revenue" refers to orders or contracts that have been obtained, are under way or have been completed, and for which payment  may or may not have been received.

IMPORTANT

• Projects that involve starting a new business in an effort to continue or expand an existing business are not eligible.
• Changing the legal status of a business (company name, partnership, stock ownership, other) is not a sufficient reason for the business to be regarded as new.
• One person or one group may submit one project only in the Business Creation division and be registered in one category only.
• A business project by a student or group of students, 18 years of age or over and enrolled in an educational institution, may be entered in either the Student Entrepreneurship division or the Business Creation division. However, to be accepted in the Business Creation division, the business project must meet the eligibility requirements.
• A Business Creation project may not be entered simultaneously in the Student Entrepreneurship division.
• A Student Entrepreneurship project, whether or not it wins a prize, may be entered in a subsequent year in the Business Creation division, provided it meets the eligibility requirements.
• A project entered in the Contest in previous years in the Business Creation division may be submitted again provided it did not win a prize in an official category at the regional level or any prize at the provincial level.