A city councillor in Saint John has put forth a motion for the city to create an early adopter program that could help budding businesses find and land government contracts.

Councillor Greg Norton presented this motion to council early February. He says the program would create a mutually beneficial relationship between the city and its innovative entrepreneurs.

“The city has problems that

Having raised US$2 million late last year, janitorial software producer Swept is now beefing up its team and aiming to hire just the right staff.

And the Halifax-based company is also doing its best to make sure the hires take place in Atlantic Canada.

Matt Cooper, the COO and co-founder of Swept, told about 40 Dalhousie University students and entrepreneurs at Launch Dal’s Fireside Chat last

The fourth annual Starting Point Student Entrepreneurship Conference is coming to a close today and organizers say the number of participants reached a record this year.

A total of 185 students registered for the three-day conference put on by the Sobey School Business Development Centre at St. Mary’s University, and more showed up at the door. The theme of this year’s conference centred on

Startup Canada, the organization that promotes entrepreneurship across Canada, has opened applications and nominations for the 2018 Startup Canada Awards.

Anyone who wants to nominate themselves or someone else for an award can do so here before April 3.

As part of the awards celebrations, Startup Canada will hold regional presentation ceremonies across the country and then a final national

Fredericton-based KnowCharge Inc. is suing the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation, the First Angel Network, and some of their current and former officers, seeking $11 million in damages.

KnowCharge, a 10-year-old company that makes static-electricity-resistant packaging for the electronics industry, filed the suit last month in the Court of Queen’s Bench in Fredericton, naming five defendants: 

Dalhousie University’s Faculty of Computer Science, is approaching its goal of doubling the proportion of female students entering its programs in 2018-19.

As part of the university's 200th anniversary celebrations, Dal plans to offer at least 60 scholarships of $10,000 each to female computer science students entering first year.  The university said this week about 31 percent of the Canadian

A New Brunswick clean energy startup is participating in an accelerator that will help them develop their business south of the border.

Last November, Stash Energy was chosen to participate in the Canadian Technology Accelerator (CTA) for clean-energy based in Denver, Colorado. The accelerator helps with selected high-growth, high-potential startups raise capital, do research and development,

Guy Earle is a standup comedian with a huge ambition: He hopes to change the way we diagnose hearing loss.

Earle is the president of Halifax-based IObIO, which is building a portable device called the BioBox. The box captures and analyzes data for clinical and scientific research and can be customized for different industries by using external plug-ins. It would reduce costs and improve

We have three positions to highlight from Harbr, Masitek Instruments and Pharm3r in our Jobs of the Week column today.

Harbr, which is searching for a React Front End Developer, is a Halifax-based company that developed a mobile app for big construction companies to manage data on large projects, improving efficiency over time.

Masitek, a technology solutions company that specializes in helping

Atlantic Canada’s Ocean Supercluster has been named one of five groups to share $950 million in federal funding to establish innovation hubs across Canada over the next five years.

Navdeep Bains, Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development, announced the five winners at a ceremony in Ottawa on Thursday, and the Atlantic Canadian finalist made the cut.

What this means is that Ottawa