Nova Scotia is now home to Canada’s first operational commercial spaceport.

Maritime Launch Services, or MLS, completed its first suborbital rocket launch from its new Canso facility on Friday under a collaboration with York University students.

The launch was coordinated by Saudi Arabia’s Al NajmX, with the payload being a high-tech, data-gathering satellite from the same country. The rocket

Halifax startup hub Volta is looking for nominees for its fifth annual Ecosystem Impact Awards, honouring changemakers from the innovation ecosystem across Atlantic Canada.

The nominations will be open until Aug. 9, with the judging committee's top three nominees from each of the five categories being notified subsequently. The winners will be announced Sept. 20.

“Do you know an extraordinary

Entrevestor will present highlights of its 2022 Atlantic Canadian Startup Data Report next Wednesday, July 12, in Fredericton.

The event will be held at startup hub Planet Hatch from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m., and will include a presentation from Entrevestor Principal Peter Moreira. The event is hosted jointly by the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation, economic development agency Ignite and

Dalhousie University’s Emera ideaHUB incubator has opened applications for this year’s ideaBUILD accelerator — a 10-month program meant to help deeptech startups develop and manufacture their products.

Previously called simply BUILD, the program lasts 10 months and offers participating companies up to $10,000 of funding, as well as access to training workshops, research and development

The University of New Brunswick’s J. Herbert Smith Centre for Technology Management and Entrepreneurship, or TME, will host three demo day events in Fredericton next week.

The J. Herbert Smith Centre oversees a host of entrepreneurship programs at the university, including its Energia Ventures and Summer Institute accelerators, and its Masters of TME. The two accelerators will both hold demo

Construction has started on Newfoundland and Labrador industry group TechNL’s new, $9.6 million Innovation Centre for Remote Operations.

TechNL is creating the centre in response to a pair of reports issued by the provincial government and management consulting giant McKinsey & Company that both recommended the creation of new initiatives to address a lack of communication and collaboration

Seven cleantech companies have been accepted into the inaugural Atlantic Canada Cleantech Scale-up and Investment Challenge, which offers a chance to win $100,000 in equity funding.

The Challenge, which is presented by Imaginal Ventures, Foresight Canada and Spring Activator, is made up of several regional competitions. Christine Whiteside, Program Manager at Spring Activator, said there will

Nominations are being sought for the InnovateNB awards that recognize individuals and companies that are boosting the innovation sector in New Brunswick.

This is the second year that a consortium of New Brunswick startup support groups are offering these awards, which are the successor to the long-standing KIRA Awards. Nominations are sought in ten award categories, ranging from the Emerging

A St. John’s company has devised a seaweed-based solution to one of the more stubborn and widespread forms of waste generated by universities: single-use laboratory plastics.

BioLabMate, founded by Memorial University biochemist Sarika Kumari and process engineer Sanjay Dubey, has created technology for converting kelp into recyclable, biodegradable plastic products. The company’s technology is

Cascadia Seaweed, the Sidney, B.C. maker of kelp-based fertilizer products, has received $1.5 million of funding to “fast-track” its commercialization activities from the non-profit British Columbia Centre for Innovation and Clean Energy, or CICE.

The money will go towards developing a 100 hectare seaweed farm in Prince Rupert, B.C. under a partnership with Metlakatla Development Corporation,