Dalhousie University’s Dal Innovates entrepreneurship hub will offer a three-day workshop about how to apply entrepreneurial thinking to scientific research and career planning in academia.

Slated to run from Jan. 26 to 28, the Path2Innovation workshop will be held virtually and is intended to help academics prepare to participate in Dal Innovates' Lab2Market accelerator -- a 16-week program to

Every year at this time, we pull out the crystal ball and try to see what the next twelve months may bring, and I’ve got to say the glass orb is a little cloudy for 2022.

I try not to write predictions in the first article of the year, because it’s a mug’s game. None of us can see the future. And it’s especially hard to get a read on what’s going to happen this year because there are so many

We’re making one last call for Canadian oceantech founders to complete our 2021 survey, which will help us produce our first report on the Canadian oceantech sector.

We’re really pleased with the responses we have received so far, but we could use a few more surveys.  If you head up an oceantech startup in Canada, please consider filling out our survey. Startup support organizations and industry

I believe that one day we’ll look back on 2021 as the year in which the Atlantic Canadian startup cluster began giving back to the governments that have supported it.

From our standpoint, the story of the year in 2021 was the governments of Canada, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador receiving a total of about $300 million from transactions involving Meta Materials Inc. and Verafin.

These

As we do each year, we're taking off the week between Christmas and New Year's. So this is our last day of publishing until Jan. 4. 

It's been a fantastic year, and we would like to thank all our readers and customers for making it so great. In 2021, we launched our Entrevestor Live event and got the ball rolling on our oceantech publication. We'll have lots of news about these initiatives in

The Memorial Centre for Entrepreneurship is adding two awards to its annual Woodward Cup competition, including one that aims to increase participation by women and non-binary students.

The entrepreneurship hub at Memorial University of Newfoundland said via an article in The Gazette that the 2022 Woodward Cup would feature an Entrepreneurship Award for women or non-binary leadership and an

Halifax-based geriatrician, academic, and founder Kenneth Rockwood has been awarded the 2021 Ryman Prize, which is worth NZ$250,000, or C$218,000, for his work on behalf of older adults.

The grant recognizes the Dalhousie professor’s more than 30 years of research, collaboration and practical clinical work for older adults living with frailty and dementia and his long-term campaign to battle

Dartmouth’s Ring Rescue, which now sells its system for removing stuck jewelry in eight countries, has inked a distribution deal with fire and emergency supplies distributor Team Equipment to make its product available to more than 200 sellers in the United States.

Team Equipment distributes emergency gear to the companies that supply fire departments and other emergency responders, who will now

In the wake of doubling both its team and its client count over the last 18 months, Saint John regulatory software startup Four Eyes Financial is hiring another five people and preparing for a Series A funding round in early 2022.

The 31-person company makes regulatory compliance software for financial advisors, which it sells to firms that act as “back offices” to the advisors themselves. The

Canada’s Ocean Supercluster has announced a pair of new projects worth a combined $3.6 million -- one to remotely monitor work being conducted at offshore sites and one to develop risk assessment and crisis management strategies.

The remote monitoring system, which the supercluster dubs the Offshore Connected Worker Project, is budgeted at $3.1 million, with the supercluster kicking in $1.3