The Nova Scotia government has released its long-awaited request for proposals for the manager of a venture capital fund to invest in early stage tech companies in the region.

Innovacorp, the government-owned innovation agency, released the RFP on Friday as part of its mission to oversee the creation of the new fund.  Private sector fund managers must get their submissions into Innovacorp by

With a new low-interest loan in hand, SkySquirrel is setting its sights in being the market leader in preventing a disease that threatens some of Europe’s most revered wine regions.

The Halifax area company uses drones to gather data from agricultural fields, focusing on the highest-margin segment of agriculture, the wine industry. On Thursday, it announced it received a $500,000 loanfrom the

Gemba Software Solutions and Repable Inc., two companies that originated in New Brunswick in the past couple of years, have been named to the prestigious Canadian Innovation Exchange Top 20 for 2016.

The CIX, a national organization that recognizes leaders in innovation, announced its latest winners last week. They will be honoured at a ceremony at the MaRS Discovery District in Toronto on Nov.

Our Job of the Week column this week highlights an opening for a full-stack developer with the Newfoundland and Labrador education technology company Clockwork Fox Studios.

St. John’s-based Clockwork Fox focuses on game-based learning. It makes video games that inspire and engage young kids to learn math. It analyzes data from these games to provide teachers and parents with information on the

Fredericton is developing a system for streamlining the provision of entrepreneurial services that will also lead to the collection of valuable data, says Larry Shaw, leader of the Fredericton Startup Network Taskforce.

The task force, composed of nearly 20 of the city’s stakeholders, a year ago began debating how to make a smooth and efficient ‘subway’ model for service provision.

Task force

The University of New Brunswick’s ambitious entrepreneurial program got a boost Thursday when the Royal Bank of Canada announced a $1 million donation.

Canada’s largest bank said in a statement it is making a leadership gift of $1 million to support innovation and entrepreneurship education at UNB’s Dr. J. Herbert Smith Centre for Technology Management and Entrepreneurship, or TME.

The TME

After a long journey for its husband-and-wife team of founders, Docmaster has launched a product that helps small and medium-sized businesses store, sort and retrieve digital files.

Docmaster is a Sydney-based company founded by Mark and Danielle Patterson, a pair of businesspeople whose careers took them from St. John’s to the southern U.S. and many points in between. And in their work, they

The fourth annual Big Data Congress opens in Saint John on Monday, once again bringing some of the world’s leading thinkers on technology to the region.

The tech consultancy T4G began the conference in Saint John in the winter of 2013, and last year the event was held in Halifax. It returns to Saint John next week, where it is likely to draw hundreds of participants.

The program will delve into

Five Nova Scotia clean technology companies have been selected to participate in the inaugural cohort of Innovacorp’s CleanTech Accelerate Program, the Nova Scotia innovation agency has announced

Innovacorp exeucutives, including CEO Stephen Duff, for several years has been discussing ways to bring the mentoring available to IT companies, to other parts of the innovation community. Duff has

Lockheed Martin Canada said today it will expand its partnership with the Joint Economic Development Initiative, or Jedi, a not-for-profit organization that fosters economic development for First Nations in New Brunswick.

JEDI launched a targeted strategy in 2014 to help Aboriginal people to pursue businesses and careers in the aerospace and defence industry. The organization developed a unique