St. John’s legal software startup Spellbook is launching a program to make its artificial intelligence system for contract drafting free to law students as the company looks to dramatically scale up its operation and consolidate triple-digit

Industry group Digital Nova Scotia is seeking nominations for this year’s Tech Forward Awards, which honour social and business pioneers in the technology sector.

With winners in eight categories, the awards ceremony will be held Nov. 9 at the

Dalhousie University’s Ocean Alk-align research program, which is studying how to make the world’s oceans more alkaline, has received almost $15 million from the Carbon to Sea Initiative.

Katja Fennel, an oceanographer with Dalhousie, will lead a

NATO's new Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic, for which Halifax is bidding to be the North American host city, is seeking applicants for a trio of innovation challenges for sensor and surveillance tech, secure communications and

Dal Innovates, the multi-tiered innovation program at Dalhousie University, is a global finalist for the Triple E Awards, which recognize the most entrepreneurial universities in the world.

Dal is one of 24 university entrepreneurship programs that

Nova Scotia Health’s Innovation Hub is dipping its toe into the startup support ecosystem with a new co-working space for healthtech and medtech startups, along with a Network of Innovators that will offer funding and training services.

The

Dalhousie University researchers are launching an $850,000 project to increase regional and international health security by monitoring emerging pox viruses in Nova Scotia populations. 

In response to recent outbreaks of the MPOX virus (formerly

Virtual Hallway, a Halifax-based platform that lets physicians and nurse practitioners schedule consultations with specialists and streamlines communication and record-keeping processes, has rolled out its technology on Prince Edward Island under a

Two Halifax teams -- Aging Proactively and Axtion Independence Mobility -- will pitch at industry group AGE-WELL’s National Impact Challenge 2023 in Toronto on Thursday, with a chance to win $25,000 each.  

Nominated in the community category of

Fredericton-based Chinova Bioworks, which uses mushrooms to make food preservatives and other ingredients, plans to quadruple its production capacity in response to demand from market-segments including non-alcoholic beer.

Founded in 2016 by CEO

Luxembourg engineering software startup ASETS-LUX is opening a five-person office in New Brunswick with the help of an as-yet undisclosed equity investment from the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation.

Asets-Lux -- which graduated from the second

LED Roadway Lighting, a longstanding success story of the East Coast startup ecosystem, is looking to innovate in the world of streetlights for a second time with its new smart cities business.

The Liveable Cities project involves the bulk of LED