Eligible Business

The BC PNP will only consider applications to establish or purchase and expand a business that meet the following eligibility criteria:

1. The business must be operated for the primary purpose of earning profits from active income through the provision of products/services.
   
   
2. The business must have good potential for sustained commercial viability.
   
   
3. The business must have the potential to create significant economic benefits to British Columbia by contributing to one or more of the following:
   • increasing value-added manufacturing, processing or primary resource activity
   • increasing exports of goods or services
   • increasing destination tourism
   • increasing R&D/technology commercialization
   • developing innovative and creative approaches to traditional businesses
   • transferring technology, skills and specialized know-how to the province
   • servicing an underserved local or regional market

The BC PNP will give special priority to business proposals that contribute to:

• expanding business with the Asia Pacific region
• utilizing wood infected by Mountain Pine Beetle
• diversifying the economies of communities affected by Mountain Pine Beetle damage
• creating business partnerships with the province's First Nations (aboriginal people)
• developing the province's emerging technology industries: alternative energy, clean technologies, information technology, new media, and life sciences