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Celebrating Youth Entrepreneurship
Atlantic Canada last week hosted a flurry of youth and student entrepreneurship events, with hundreds of participants and cash prizes totaling thousands of dollars.
The highest profile event was YES Atlantic, or the Youth Entrepreneur Summit, in
Job of the Week: Sequence Bio
Today in Job of the Week, we are featuring an opening for Manager of Technical Development at Sequence Bio of St. John’s.
Founded in 2013, Sequence works with partners to analyze vast sets of data from gene pools to get a deeper understanding of
Agile Signs Deal with China’s Gaitech
Agile Sensor Technologies Inc., a St. John’s maker of components for the robotics industry, has landed six figures in funding from and a partnership agreement with Gaitech International Limited of Shanghai, China.
Agile CEO Brian Terry said in an
Can Entrepreneurship Save Us?
So Maclean’s magazine has touched quite a nerve in New Brunswick.
The national weekly this month published an article with the apocalyptic title, “Can anything save New Brunswick?”
As expected, it catalogued a litany of problems, from the aging
Alaunus Sets Sites Beyond Ontario
With thousands of carers now using its software in Ontario, Alaunus is working on a plan to extend its reach into other Canadian provinces and the U.S.
The Waterloo-based company’s HealthPlanr software helps home-care agencies organize their
R3 to Honour 3 NB Researchers
Three leading New Brunswick researchers will be honoured in Fredericton next Wednesday at the R3 Gala, which celebrates the innovations of the province’s top applied researchers.
They are: Liuchen Chang, NSERC Chair of Environmental Design
Tech Leadership Event Set for May
Communitech has announced the speakers who will join keynotes Ray Kurzweil and Robin Chase in presenting at the Tech Leadership Conference in May.
The Tech Leadership Conference – to be held at Communitech on May 12 – will examine trends in
Lux Wind Crowdfunding for Trials
A Halifax company has launched a $500,000 to $800,000 crowdfunding campaign to test a revolutionary form of wind turbine that could improve the economics of wind power.
Lux Wind Turbines is raising money so it can build a test version of its new
Soricimed Wins Orphan Drug Status
Sackville, N.B.-based Soricimed Biopharma Inc., a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company developing peptide-based cancer therapeutics, has won a key regulatory approval from the Food and Drug Administration in the U.S.
The company said in a
PACTA Wins Fundica Roadshow
PACTA, the Halifax company whose technology helps to manage contracts, won the Atlantic Canadian stop in the Fundica Roadshow on Friday, securing a trip to and office space in Silicon Valley.
The Fundica Roadshow goes across the country, hearing
Job of the Week: BlueLight Analytics
This week in Job of the Week, we are featuring a posting from a company involved in dental health: BlueLight Analytics of Halifax is looking for a software developer.
BlueLight specializes in the measurement of the curing light used to harden
The Millennial Dream to Air March 15
As the American Dream gives way to the more socially responsible Millennial Dream, this region should work to attract and keep members of the millennial generation, argues Greg Hemmings, founder and CEO of New Brunswick’s Hemmings House Pictures.
