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 quarterly revenue growth.

Chief executive Scott Stevenson said in an interview that the student access initiative is in response to requests from professors

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 Halifax Marriot Harbourfront. People can self-nominate, or be nominated by their employers or industry peers. Digital Nova Scotia is particularly looking

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 team of international researchers in the five-year study into reversing ocean acidification. Oceans are becoming more acidic, which is reducing their

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 energy resilience.

Called DIANA for short, the accelerator is meant to promote cooperation between the defence sector and the startup economy.

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 will compete in the finals next week in Barcelona. The finalists include two other Canadian universities: McGill and Wilfrid Laurier.

The Triple E

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 Innovation Hub was created by the provincial government in an attempt to bring high-tech solutions to bear on Nova Scotia’s faltering healthcare system. 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 known as monkeypox), the project will provide a comprehensive map of these viruses in central Africa and Nova Scotia. The information and data collected

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 deal with Health PEI.

The company, under CEO Justin Hartlen and founders Dr. Jacob Cookey, Dr. Luke Napier and Dr. Daniel Rasic, has facilitated more

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 the competiton, Aging Proactively is the Canadian affiliate of the American non-profit Age-Friendly Institute. It offers a certification for employers

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 Natasha Dhayagude and COO David Brown, Chinova “upcycles” castoff mushroom stems collected from farmers into a range of natural white label food